CategoriesStyles and Movements
Pop and Contemporary Pop
Pop Art of the 1950s and 1960s together with later artists who keep its bright, mass-produced look and its fascination with consumer culture.
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Pop's first generation, active in Britain and the United States from the mid-1950s through the 1960s, took imagery from advertising, comics, packaging and celebrity, and methods from commercial production. Roy Lichtenstein enlarged comic panels complete with printed dots, as in Whaam! (1963), and Andy Warhol silkscreened soup cans, film stars and news photographs in repeated grids.
Later artists kept the attitude as consumer culture changed. In the 1980s Jeff Koons cast an inflatable toy in polished stainless steel for Rabbit (1986), and Keith Haring put his cartoon figures on T-shirts and badges in his Pop Shop. In Japan, Takashi Murakami's Superflat drew on anime, manga and the flat compositions of earlier Japanese painting. KAWS turns cartoon-derived characters into large sculptures and vinyl toys, and Banksy makes satirical street stencils. Look for bright, flat colour, mass-produced sources and a blurred line between artwork and merchandise.
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