Characteristics Of Pop Art

Generally, pop art would be defined as popular culture. In deeper meaning, pop art is art that is based on or uses/imitates elements or styles and methods of modern popular culture and mass media for example movies, magazines, popular music and others including advertising, comic strips, cans and bottles. Pop art was made especially to act as a critical or ironic perspective or view on values of the traditional fine art. Traditional art was seriously done while pop art was meant to be fun. Pop art began in the United Kingdom (England) during the 1950s but as time moved on; it spread all the way to New York City (United States) where it became a very popular and also became a true art movement in the 1960s. The artists involved in the movement

To begin with, pop art uses images and icons that appear to be popular in the world today. These images and icons include commercial items like food cans, comic strips, soft drinks bottles, movie stars, famous celebrities, popular musicians and many other things that are considered popular in the modern commercial world. All these can be used in different ways to create an outstanding final art piece. Most of the times pop art artists would repeat the item over and over again in order to create art. Others would change the texture or colour of an item or person. Some artists would put different items or people to create one outstanding

Pop art mostly works in the concept of lack of hierarchy in culture therefore it can borrow ideas coming from any source.

It is said that the abstract expressionists searched for depressing experiences- trauma in the viewer’s soul. On the other hand, pop art also searches for the depressing experiences- trauma in the modern world of advertisements, movie and music stars, cartoons and popular imagery as a whole. It is also said that pop artists might have been the first to discover that anything, whatever it might be, whether the natural world, the soul, the surroundings they all have no unmediated success. Pop art led to the belief that there is a connection in everything which led the artists into making literal connections in all of their art work.

Even though Pop art consists of a wide range of art work which encompasses a wide variety of different postures and attitudes, most of it is emotionally removed somehow. In contrast to the hot expression of the abstraction that comes after it, pop is generally known to be cool which is simultaneously causing contradictory and conflicting reactions, beliefs and feelings.

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