Pop Art was a 20th century art movement that utilized the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture as well as mass media and advertising, often in an ironic way. ... Pop Art brought art back to materiality and popular culture as it eliminated the difference between good and bad taste, and fine art and commercial art techniques. ... This piece, and all of Pollock's work post war, represented dark and anger filled thoughts, and were considered attempts to separate himself from popular American culture. ... Pop Art was the answer. ... In 1962, he produced his silkscreen p...

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Pop Art was the imagery of middle-class culture repurposed. ... They viewed the alluring imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a sense of irony and a little bit of envy ("Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture.") ... Pop Artists used popular culture to their creative advantage. ... What artists in this era did was appreciate pop culture's dynamic effect on society and on our daily perception of life. ... It is both "sensual and cerebral - an art about art and the way we relate to it" (Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture). ...

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Perhaps the most notorious of the 20th century was Pop Art. Pop Art took ideas or images from popular culture, and perverted them into art. ... In contrast to Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and other representatives of Pop Art who integrated objects tel quell (Bockris, 101), without modification, in their paintings, Warhol concentrated on - at first hand painted - subjects of mass consumption and culture by isolating and monumentalizing them, without using other objects in the background and without preliminary sketches. ... He made it plain and simple and therefore was able to create the...

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He created his first Pop painting based on comics and ads in 1961. ... Warhol was a heavily influenced artist which lead him to expand on the entirely new genre of Pop Art. Some things he was influenced by soon became an almost mandatory way of painting, many of his ideas created from his culture became the backbone of Pop Art itself. ... He put culture on a canvas and revolutionised pop art. As an artist living in America he saw a chance to highlight how easy people were influenced by media and pop culture. ...

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Being mocked of his work, Andy Warhol, the leader of the 1960's artistic movement known as Pop Art, a straight depiction of popular culture and removal of the influential artist, faced many criticisms about his work; whether or not if it was actually art. ... The key idea of pop art is the modern social values that society holds. ... Pop art is not considered an art style, rather as iconography or the attitudes that it holds. Usually an ironic way to show the social matters of popular culture, society still uses images and systems of mass media, popular culture, and advertising. Since P...

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The new American popular culture displayed consumption of goods through image campaigns ("Paradigms of the Postmodern-, p.8, 11). These image campaigns, or advertisements, lead artists such as Andy Warhol to make art that was considered to be pop art, or art pertaining to popular culture. ... He knew, understood and utilized this concept in his postmodern pop art (Fineberg, p. 252). ... Just like Warhol, the masses in society enjoy items that have sameness in culture (Fineberg, p.252). ... He produced works of art concerning items in American culture that were static and that society could...

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Warhol And Pop Art Pop Art emerged in the US in the early 1960's, at first completely unacknowledged. During it's beginning, Pop Art was often seen as an insult to the roles of such artists as Pollock and de Kooning, who were leading a revival of Abstract Expressionist, "an abrupt and conspicuous dialectical reaction to a great wave of abstraction," at mid-century. ... Such Pop Art images as Warhol's soup cans and Lichtenstein's comic book panels jumped from the vast American consumer culture into the realm of high artistic and aesthetic recognition. It is not known whether...

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Article Summaries Adrian van Kaam discusses humanistic psychology and how it is related to culture. ... The foundation of a culture relies on the people that build it and artists are the members of cultures that create them. ... Main Body We have all seen the iconic pop-art painting of Marilyn Monroe's face or the Campbell's Soup Can prints. The great artist that is not only the creator of those works, but a key role to the Pop Movement is none other than Andy Warhol. ... Even once the Pop Art movement was over Warhol started doing prints of non-show business people, making them equa...

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Andy Warhol Andy Warhol was one of the founding members of the new art movement that began in the mid to late fifties, which was most commonly referred to as "Pop Art," which was short for "Popular Culture." "Pop Art" takes its subject matter from popular culture such as comic strips, motion pictures, and advertising, as well as ordinary everyday objects, which are portrayed by using various artistic technologies. ... The subject matter of Andy Warhol's earliest artwork reflected numerous aspects of American Culture. ... Warhol, thus, played upon this superficial personality of America...

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