The Influences and Interrelationships part 2

Culture was one of the biggest influences on pop art as it was slowly changing over the years, the artists wanted a humerous look on the world they lived in.
More main influences are 'the media, advertising and mass consumer culture, packaging, television, advertisements, comic books and the cinema'
Dada was a movement related to Pop art as they both showed the humerous witty side over the serious nature of art works of Marcell Buchamps can be recognised as similar to Andy Warhols work.

The Influences/Interrelationships of Pop Art

Stuart Davis' work inspired other artists with his idea's to do pop art as he was influenced by the modernism of that era.
His many influences were
Cubism
Jazz
Travel
Signs (Brightness/Neon)
and Brand Names
Many of which are seen throughout the pop art movement.

Another contributing factor was modern culture and the media, the pop art movement wanted to bring art back into the daily life of people and by using modern culture and the media this helped to do so.

The Pop Art Movement came about as a reaction against abstract painting which they found too sophisticated and elite, their comeback was humerous, witty art.

Advertisement is also an influence to pop art as its art people see everyday and what stands out to people.

To conclude this blog, Pop Art was created by artists taking things from everyday life and showing them in a new perspective this was then presented through advertisement, comics, the media and even movies.
Pop Art was considered one of the final 'modern art' movements and a pre-cursor to 'post-modern art.'

Merry Christmas to you all x

Well its now the 17th December and this is the last day of College. YAY!
After a morning of singing cows, Nortbert in a santa hat and Jake skipping around the studio in delight over his omnitrix i am finall ready to go home.
Merry christmas everyone x

Richard Hamilton (born February 24, 1922 - Present)

In 1956 the word pop appeared in art for the first time, this was in British Richard Hamiltons work.
Richard believed that its not about the final art piece but about the process in order to produce the work.
Richard Hamilton made his artwork into a movie for advertisement.
Richard first made it big as a pop artist with his collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? which was produced for the This is Tomorrow exhibition.
Richard also had a piece of artwork called 'The critics laugh' which was his take on pop art.
Richard Hamiltons works were paintings and collages and mainly contained commercial materials.

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

Andy Warhol, an American,started in the 1950's, As a pop artist Andy focused mainly on the consumer products in everyday life such as soup cans and coca cola.
Andy also liked to paint celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, John Lennon and Michael Jackson, he repeated their faces in his art to show how celebrities are thrown at us through the media.
Aswell as Roy Lichtenstein Andy also had a factory in which he produced his work with help from other people, to mirror mass production going around .
Andy stated he didn't want people to closely examine his art but merely just give it a quick glance like you would at a tv.
Andys work was also used for advertisement, such as his coca cola cans this was probably because in his earlier days Andy was a commercial advertiser.

'Art can't change life' - Andy Warhol.

Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997)

Known for his comic book style and influenced by popular advertising, Roy Lichtenstein is one of the best known pop artists of our time.
Roy used parody and irony in his work, such as his focus on a single comic book frame which is meaningless without the other frames.
Lichtenstein also mass produced his work in factories, alot like other pop artists to copy the mass production going on in the world around him.
Lichtensteins work had a unique way in which he did his work, unlike most pop art paintings which are block colours, Roy experimented with stencils and produced rows of oversized dots in his work to make his art look machine made, when standing close to these paintings you can just see the oversized dots and you cant really focus on what the main picture is but when standing away from it the picture becomes clearer.
Roy never stopped producing work until he died unexpectedly of virul pneumonia on September 29th, 1997.

The birth of Pop art. (10/12/09)

Pop Art began in Britain in the 1950's due to the many different changes in society, however, it was when America started to use Pop Art in the 1960's that the movements awareness was increased.
Though Pop Art started in Britain the British referred to it as propaganda art due to it's commercialism and it's use of propaganda.
Pop Art merged the division between fine arts and media and the advertisement of commercial arts.
Even though Pop Art looked all well done and glamorous it was actually low cost and mass produced in factories.
Pop Art came out just after abstract expressionism, a movement which was considered serious, so when Pop Art came about with its parody and irony it appealed to a much bigger audience.
The Pop Art movement fizzled out in the late 60's early 70's though some of the work is still used today whether its in adverts or t-shirts.