CategoriesStyles and Movements
Pop Art
Art of the late 1950s and 1960s, first in Britain and then the United States, that took its imagery from advertising, comics and consumer goods.
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The first Pop art was made in London. The Independent Group, meeting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the early 1950s, studied American magazines, films and car styling seriously, and Richard Hamilton's collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956) packed a bodybuilder, a tape recorder and a tinned ham into one modern interior. In 1957 Hamilton listed the qualities of popular culture he admired: transient, expendable, mass-produced, witty, glamorous.
In New York around 1961–62 the idea arrived at full scale. Andy Warhol painted Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and silkscreened Marilyn Monroe; Roy Lichtenstein borrowed comic-strip dots and outlines for Drowning Girl (1963); Claes Oldenburg made giant soft hamburgers; James Rosenquist brought billboard technique to F-111 (1964–65). Look for flat colour, hard edges, repetition and commercial subjects shown without comment. Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and the Belgian Evelyne Axell widened its range.
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