6 main characteristics of Pop Art

TO pop art, also called from pop Art, an artistic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1950s, reaching its boom in the 1960s.

It was a framework for the passage of modernity for post-modernity in western culture, being battled by Lawrence Alloway, an English art critic, who created pop art in 1956.

1. A aesthetics das massas

Pop art was a central element that sought to approximate the art of everyday life, using the aesthetics of mass culture as its main support.

The answering British and North American artists try to work from elements that find us behaviors and costumes, molded by increasing industrialization. Life should not be separated from art, they will credit.

Also, pop art artists seek out culture from day-to-day to inspiration for the creative process. Diverse works feitas nesse context were objects produced on a large scale, images that imitate photographs of journals in magazines, use of the serigraphy technique, fragments of histories in quadrinhos, images of celebrities and publicity.

2. Common objects as art

It can be said that this pulsating period of the arts was marked by the rise of the use of common and everyday objects in the category of artistic objects.

Canned products, refrigerant jugs and other “banana” elements stamped large paintings, tracing a massified culture that permeated the 60's.

A couple of meias is no less suitable for a painting than oil on canvas.

Robert Rochenberg

3. Use of celebrity images

Also as artists use images of everyday objects, they will also use images of celebrities in their works.

Dessa forma, photographs of cinema stars and music were reproduced on a large scale, generally using an industrial technique of silk-screen printing.

The intention was to create a parallel between the objects and the people that were very "consumed" by the population. No case, this consumption occurs through television and cinema.

As an example, we have emblematic works by Andy Warhol, in which he reproduced the figure of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson.

Also, it is a criticism of its own cultural industry, which creates contemporary myths and "idols".

4. Opposition to abstractionism

Or movement that precedes pop art foi or abstractionism. I attached that, in the mid-50s, young artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg began to criticize or abyss between art and life and outsourcing that does not identify itself as an abstract style in voga.

They accredited that art should be closer to the common city, and not enveloped in an incomprehensible atmosphere, as abstract art was or is the case.

5. Social criticism

From within da society, breeders da pop artWe will criticize our own society: o excessive consumption, o semi-limited capitalist behavior, or riotous North American everyday habits.

In the meantime, they used precisely two elements that we criticized to create their art, creating in this way a production that opposes consumption, but is fed.

6. Vibrant cores

The works produced at height will be able to gain contours with many strong, fluorescent colors and some brightness. A classic example is A banana, consecrated by Andy Warhol and transformed into a disco layer of the rock band The Velvet Underground.

Another example of the value that followers give pop art davam ao brilho foi a criação da obra Mickey Mouse, also by Andy Warhol. Nela or artist chose to make a foundation with diamonds to provoke an effect of illumination à peça:

Works and artists da pop art

1. Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? (1956), by Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton was an engineer and manager of technical expertise for years. At a certain moment of the career, however, he opted to place his skills at the service of more creative productions.

A collagem of Richard Hamilton (which in Portuguese could be translated as Or what makes the leaf houses different, so attractive?) was presented at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. O work fez part of the famous exhibition This is tomorrow.

The English artist Richard Hamilton was part of the era of a chamado group Independent Group (IG), formed in 1952 in the English capital. Critics regarded colagem as uma das primiras works really characteristic da pop art.

Uma curiosidade: Richard Hamilton also assinou a capa do White Album, album by The Beatles.

2. Campbells soup (1962), by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol formed a design and work as an illustrator for important magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and New Yorker. He also works as an advertiser and is always interested in elements of mass culture.

Warhol used many of his works with silk-screen technique to represent produção em série fazendo a critique of impessoality of the massified object. No titled set Campbell's Soup Cans We found a meeting of 32 fabrics, each one painted in homage to 32 varieties of soups offered by the Campbell company in the North American market.

3. Marilyn diptych (1962), by Andy Warhol

Warhol was also a filmmaker and film enthusiast. Seu work in the plastic arts also procurou portray North American popular idols from a new perspective.

Serious works as a plastic artist tiveram as leading personages, icons and public personalities such as Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando and Eizabeth Taylor.

Warhol was looking reinvent consecrated images I especially use mechanical reproduction, the application of strong and bright colors on portraits that are part of the collective popular imagery.

4. Kiss V (1964) by Roy Lichtenstein

Lichtenstein knew quite well when it came to his art that sought to enhance the histories in the fields. Seu work of him also has advertisements, trades and cuts from day to day.

The North American artist fez also profoundly uses pontilhista technique. To his famous cloth Kiss V There are two examples of the use of this technique.

5. Hey Let's Go for a Ride (1961), by James Rosenquist

Rosenquist foi um dos maiores nomes da pop art of Nova Iorque. The beginning of his career working as abstract expressionism, plus a precise logo to cover for the creation of advertising letters to be able to survive.

Or future artist, in a moment of reflection, a parallel between his two activities:

Rosenquist privileges his works collagens feitas from Very different references from everyday such as food illustrations, car parts, advertisements, political advertisements.

6. Flag (1955), by Jasper Johns

O North American painter foi um dos pioneiros da pop art e developed or seu work mainly from maps, flags, alvos and algarisms.

He ended up, by isso, becoming known as an artist in a certain nationalistic way. Jasper was a two main responsible for the North American culture in Europe.

Or breeder fez use da classical iconography, simple, and of symbols that could reach all the people, pois belonging to or collective imagery. As time decor, Johns went on to invest in the use of real objects on fabrics such as cans, pins and brooms.

A curiosity: Jasper Johns used a painting technique that consisted of diluting ink in hot wax.

TO pop art No brazil

We were not living in Brazil during the military ditch period (which began after the 1964 coup). Rondava or half of censorship, because of the artistic production tends to be more content. It is worth noting, however, "Opinião 65", an event held in the Museum of Modern Art that brings together 17 Brazilian and 13 foreign artists.

The best names for Brazilian art at height are: José Roberto Aguilar, Wesley Duke Lee, Luiz Paulo Baravelli, Claudio Tozzi, Carlos Farjado and Antonio Henrique Amaral.

A great little highlight of the epoch, for the time being, was controversial and little understood. Parangoléby Hélio Oiticica.

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