Pop Art Research

Pop Art

Pop art was an art movement that became popular in the UK and USA in the 1950’s. Pop art consists of taking images from adverts, news stories, newspapers, magazines out of their original context and combining it with other content that is not related to it. Famous artists of the pop art movement were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Lichtenstein used old comic books as a style to base his drawings on. Main features of these types of drawings would be bold outlines, bright colours and dots to get the comic book style.

This is an example of Lichtenstein's work, it very much resembles the artwork that is seen from a comic book. Often Lichtensteins work would be taken from panels of comic books that were published. This piece is taken from a 1962 DC comic: All-American Men of War. As you can see it uses onomatopoeia with the word Whaam! To emphasize the explosion.

Here is a piece from Andy Warhol, painted in the 1960’s. Warhol would often get images of famous celebrities and create his own style using a variety of colours and tones to make his own version. Often he would use the same image and use different colours to create different versions of the same image.