Pop Art
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Pop Art is a visual artistic movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop Art is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising and comic books, pop art is widely interpreted as either a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism or an expansion upon them. Pop art, like pop music, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture. Pop art at times targeted a broad audience, and often claimed to do so. However, much of pop art is considered very academic, as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult for some to comprehend. Pop art and Minimalism are considered to be the last Modern art movements and thus the precursors to Contemporary art or Postmodern art.
In music
Serge Gainsbourg is also considered to be one of the first music pop artists of the late 1960s. While artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein explored modern iconographic consumer culture through painting, Gainsbourg explored similar territory in music with songs such as "Comic Strip," "Ford Mustang," "Qui est In Qui est Out," and "Teenie Weenie Boppie."
Notable pop artists
- Billy Apple
- Sir Peter Blake
- Derek Boshier
- Patrick Caulfield
- Alan D’Arcangelo
- Jim Dine
- William Eggleston
- Erró
- Marisol Escobar
- Red Grooms
- Richard Hamilton
- Keith Haring
- David Hockney
- Robert Indiana
- Jasper Johns
- Allen Jones
- Alex Katz
- Corita Kent
- Nicholas Krushenick
- Yayoi Kusama
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Richard Lindner
- John McHale
- Peter Max
- Takashi Murakami
- Yoshitomo Nara
- Claes Oldenburg
- Julian Opie
- Eduardo Paolozzi
- Peter Phillips
- Sigmar Polke
- Hariton Pushwagner
- Mel Ramos
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Larry Rivers
- James Rosenquist
- Ed Ruscha
- George Segal
- Colin Self
- Aya Takano
- Wayne Thiebaud
- Andy Warhol
- John Wesley
- Tom Wesselmann
