Andy Warhol - Master Pop Artist

By Dick Wolf




A number of the most nicely-recognized artists of the Pop Art phenomenon, corresponding to Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, were born in the 1920's which was a boom time within the USA with money to spare and jazz music starting to make it is mark. But in 1929 the inventory market crashed and the US entered a depression that lasted till the mid-1930. Maybe probably the most well-known of all pop artists, Andy Warhol, was born at the beginning of that depression.

British pop artwork can trace its roots again to the mid 1950s. A small impartial group comprising notable artists at that time together with critics within the art world put collectively an exhibition which was held at the White chapel Artwork Gallery in 1956. This exhibition was a deal with the topic of low cost consumer merchandise and the position that they played in fashionable life. Though it did not seem to be it then, the exhibition was a serious step ahead within the art world and a huge departure from what had gone earlier than it. The erstwhile critic, Lawrence Alloway (1926-1992) hailed it because the delivery of something new and in 1958 he christened this distinctive model of artwork as "Pop Art".

Many people associate this art style with artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, as they were the pioneers of the style. Warhol became famous for creating fine art pieces featuring soup cans. Lichtenstein created large canvas filled with comic book style images.

Other widespread themes in Pop Artwork were comedian books and the well-known people of that period akin to Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, who will likely be forever related to Warhol's work. Andy Warhol used display screen printing techniques for his work and usually made several copies of the same image.

Certainly, Warhol's fame elevated in 1962 after his "Campbell's Soup Cans" work was produced and featured in separate works - firstly as individual "cans" and then the same cans aligned in immaculate rows.

Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, presumably the most important 60s female icons on the time, had been additionally given the "Warhol therapy" during which he silk screened their images, altered the colors and reproduced them in repeated patterns.

Graphic Model: Clearly defined shapes and colors with hard edges such because the Lichtenstein comic book kinds and David Hockney's works. Funny and Lighthearted: Rejecting art and the fairly critical approach of earlier artists. On a regular basis Products and Brands: together with foodstuffs, cars and images from promoting and films. Collage: and likewise different methods inside one work.




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