Pop Art
When you here Pop Art; think art about popular culture.
Pop Artists
Once you “got” Pop, you could never
see a sign the same way again. And once
you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
-Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Historical Perspective
Pop art is decidedly rooted in the tradition of Realism, an aesthetic which revoked an idealization of subject matter in favor of subject matter drawn from the commonplace, the everyday. In the words of Gustave Courbet, a champion of the Realistic perspective, "for an artist the practice of art should involve bringing to bear his faculties on the ideas and objects of the period in which he lives"(Britt). And indeed the focus for the Pop Artists is on the objects at hand, the images of the mass media--t.v., cinema, picture magazines, billboards etc. Hamburgers, Spaghettios, Coca-Cola are prolific images in the art of the era.
Claes Oldenberg
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