Pop art

Today I'll be writing about something we all know, as pop art is still popular in western and global culture. 
We can easily distinguish it from different art movements. Let's look deeper into the origins, artist and characteristics that make it stand out. 

Andy Warhol Campbells Soup Cans

American pop art flourished during the 60s,a bit later than its British brother. One of the first exhibitions took place in late 1950s in New York, and then in Los Angeles where the famous Andy Warhol's soup can painting was sold.

Pop art in the U.S. had more serious tone than the British movement. It was a response to the world of advertising and commersialism in which America sank after World War II .
It also aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture and to show that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source.




 Artists were inspired also by comics, a lot of works looks as if it was a comic scene.Roy Lichtenstein  was well known because of that as his work borrowed heavily from the art in American comic books. He used  parody in a soft manner to show the modern world. His work features thick outlines, bold colors dots to represent certain colors, as if created by photographic reproduction.His greatest works were made with the use of oil and Magna paint (acrylic paint).

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