Food as a center point in Pop Art
Most pop artists use modern day images, instances and people as their sources of inspiration. These then get re-interpreted as other forms in a pop art painting. What’s interesting is that in the later...
View ArticleContemporary art Vs Pop Culture
Today much of our contemporary art stems from Pop culture and pop art which originated in the United States in the sixties. The purpose in making contemporary art more pop culture related and less...
View ArticlePop Art Icon and Other Icons
“Life is full of dead spots. Art gives it life” This quote was said by Irwin Edman, a 20th century philosopher. He mentioned that artists have a way of making life come alive and have been able to do...
View ArticleRoy Lichtenstein Pop Art – Drowning Girl
Roy Lichtenstein produced a number of works that he interpreted from various sources, many of them found within the pages of comic books. These pieces have come to be known as a standard for Pop Art,...
View ArticleThe Art of Roy Lichtenstein
Widely regarded to be one of the leading influences in the world of Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein was a famous artist who helped to usher in the Pop Art period of the Modern Art movement. His works were...
View ArticleMarilyn Monroe (Marilyn Diptych)- Third Most Influential Work of Modern Art
Andy Warhol no doubt has a strong influence on the modern art movement as his works have become some of the classic definitions of what modern art stands for. His 100 Soup Cans or Marilyn Diptych...
View ArticleJasper Johns a Pop Artist?
Another strong contender in the world of Modern Art would be the famous artist Jasper Johns, who challenged the way that Americans looked at many commonplace items in our iconography. For the fact...
View ArticlePop Art Portraits
Pop Art is an interesting way of looking at something which usually already exists in some capacity and taking something entirely new from it. The medium can use paintings or photography which has...
View ArticleAndy Warhol
One of the most influential artists of the pop art movement during the 1960s, Andy Warhol is a name which is known to many, although perhaps they don’t exactly know why. Arguably most famous for his...
View ArticleThe Pop Art Movement
Pop Art, born slightly after the Abstract Expressionist movement, is seen by many as both a reaction and an expansion on the ideas which that movement was presenting. The idea of Pop Art is one which...
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