It was the result of an essential art movement that dominated the mid-20th century.
The pop art movement appreciated popular culture over elite culture.
Dadaism might be considered the ancestor of pop art, which featured many renowned dadaist artists.
Many Pop art artists wanted to prove that sources from popular and commercial culture can challenge traditional notions of art.
Ads, celebrities, everyday cultural artifacts, and comic book characters, provided most of the inspiration.
Here are some famous pop art paintings that even today reign in the art world.
LOOK MICKEY
Widely regarded as a bridge between Roy Lichtenstein’s abstract expressionism and his pop art paintings, Look Mickey is most noticeable for its humor and aesthetic value.
This famous pop art painting marks the artist’s first full use of all of the painting techniques to reproduce a complete ditto of a comic strip.
It depicts the mass production of comics and makes visual changes to the color scheme from the original comic.
RADIANT BABY
Radiant Baby, one of Keith Haring’s most iconic pop art paintings, is a pop artwork that depicts the outline of a baby crawling.
The lines coming from the baby are intended to represent the glow it is emitting, or at the very least draw the viewer’s eye to it.
For the artist, the baby is said to be emanating life and energy.
The reason Keith chose a baby is that they are traditionally used in art as a symbol of purity and new beginnings.
However, the infant is shown alone because it is completely capable of raising itself and does not display any vulnerability.
This painting was however partially developed at the O’Neil music theater Conference in Watford, and fully premiered at the Public Theater in 2003.
You can modify reality through all the colours.
ANDY WARHOL ArtWork
POP ART AUTHOR. Andy Warhol
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was one of the most prominent American pop artists. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work early in his career was influenced by the advertising industry and became popular in its ever fascinating comic book style. He always referred to Pop as much more “Industrial Art” than American. His early works Whaam! and Drowning Girl are generally regarded as Lichtenstein’s most famous works,although the piece that has fetched the most money is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in January 2017!
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York into an upper-middle-class, Jewish family and he grew up in New York City’s Upper West Side. He attended public schools until 12 years old then went on to attend and graduating from New York’s Dwight School in 1940. Lichtenstein left New York in 1940 to attend Ohio University to pursue a degree in Fine Arts. In 1943 his studies were put on hold for three years to serve in the Army during World War II, serving as a draftsman and artist. He would return to Ohio State in 1946 and received his Masters in Fine Arts in 1949.It was in this same year he would marry his first wife Isabel Wilson, and they had two sons, David in 1954 and Mitchell in 1956.
