What makes Pop art different from all the other art movements? How can you tell them apart? Well this blog is here to tell you...
This movement has used alot of bright colours in their work, which are mainly primary colours such as blues reds and yellows. i think this technique is used to stand out more and appeal to an audience. The bright colours are used works that are based around comic strips, advertisements and icons and products seen in the media.
Andy Warhol, one of the most well known pop artists around, uses alot of repitition in his work i think this is to mirror the use of mass production around the world and the way products and icons are thrown at us repeatedly through the media.
Advertising was used in pop art because it was drawn from the theme of popular mass culture. The use of advertisement was to link pop art to mass media in which advertisement is used.
Consumer products were also shown in some pop artists work, this was also shown in a mass production theme such as repetitition.
by using images and products and icons around the world pop artists are able to appeal to a much larger audience and also showing the products being used in popular culture.
Icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson were used in Andy Warhols work where he redefined these celebrities to make them brighter and colourful and also repeated their faces four times, this was to show how these icons are shown and how their thrown at us all the time through the media.
Some artists even use mass production to mirror mass production being used around the world an example of this is Andy Warhols 'Factory' from which he mass produced things such as films, silkscreens and even sculptures
Comic strips were seen alot during the pop art period, this was aimed at a more youthful audience. The comic strip consisted of humerous writing and bright colours. Roy Lichtensteins work was mainly comic strips.
These are the main characteristics that were used throughout the pop art movement by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and even British pop artist Richard Hamilton
