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Pop Art (1950-)
About Pop Art
Description of Pop Art
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About Pop Art
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Pop Art
Pop Art refers to an international visual art movement and style that originated in England in the 1950’s. In the 1960’s, it made its way to the United States where it reached the full expression of its unique aesthetic. The label “pop art” was first applied by the English critic, Lawrence Alloway in a 1948 issue of Architectural Digest; Alloway used the term to describe a new genre of paintings that “celebrate Post-War Consumerism, defy
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Pop Art
Pop Art refers to an international visual art movement and style that originated in England in the 1950’s. In the 1960’s, it made its way to the United States where it reached the full expression of its unique aesthetic. The label “pop art” was first applied by the English critic, Lawrence Alloway in a 1948 issue of Architectural Digest; Alloway used the term to describe a new genre of paintings that “celebrate Post-War Consumerism, defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism and worship the god of materialism.”
Pop Art features images drawn from popular culture; particularly mass marketed and widely recognizable images such as advertisements, comic books, celebrity images and supermarket products. Pop Art is often interpreted as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, the dominant movement at the time. Pop Artists emphasized the banal and kitschy elements of western culture. It was a celebration of consumer society in which the epic was replaced with the everyday and the mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique.
Pop Artists worked in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, printmaking, collage and installation. In addition to popular imagery, Pop Art’s formal characteristics typically include: anonymity of surface, strong, flatly applied colors and centralized compositions. Pop Art is considered to be one of the last Modern Art movements and thus the precursor to Postmodernism, though some critics and art historians regard it as one of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art. The leading exponents of Pop Art include Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
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Examples of Pop Art at Auction
Artists Associated with Pop Art — 36 artists:
Auction Houses that have sold Pop Art works - 411
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A. H. Wilkens Auctions & Appraisals
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