What is pop art?

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art

History of pop art

Started in 1950's

Ended in 1970's

Pop art is now most associated with the work of New York artists of the early 1960s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg, but artists who drew on popular imagery were part of an international phenomenon in various cities from the mid-1950s onwards. Following the popularity of the Abstract Expressionists, Pop's reintroduction of identifiable imagery (drawn from mass media and popular culture) was a major shift for the direction of modernism.

http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm

Key features of pop art

Pop art was mainly seen in consumer products and advertising, making it highly reachable for everyone. It is mainly characterized for its simple and everyday images as well as its use of block colours, but it has other features.

Also common is the use of everyday objects or images as the centerpiece of an artistic work, exalting the banal and seemingly worthless as a unique object, as with the famous Campbell's Soup by Andy Warhol used in one of his best known works. It is a bold step in the discussion of what is art and what are its limits, using a mass-produced item without an obvious aesthetic or artistic value as a cornerstone in the history of modern art.

Pop Art Artists

Andy Warhol

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roy lichtenstein


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robert rauschenberg


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David Hockney

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seamless product diagram


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this would be perfect becasue of the positioning off the lighting becasue they exclude all of the shadows creating the perfect shadowless picture getting a crisp quality picture of the prop.
the only problem we have iswe only have access to 2 lights whcih will be placed where EL1 and EL2 are so we wont be able to exclude all shadows but try and get rid of the shadow as much as we can.

Pop Art Studios


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Proposal

I am going to create a piece of art in the style of pop art using my own shots that I will be taking of items that I have brought in to take a shot of. I’m going to be bringing in a bottle of Disaronno a bottle of Smart water and tub of Pringles my red trainers some Radox shower gel and I’m going to take a shot of a wine bottle that I see inside the classroom. I chose these objects because they are colourful and also everyday items. Instead of a seamless background to help take my images I used a soft box instead and shoot the images from above.

Then I am going to upload them to Photoshop in which I will then create a pop art piece by using the same image but with different backgrounds and even change the hue and saturation of my image to make it pop more. I was going to create the one where I have a montage of my image because the cartoon effect would have been time consuming and quite a hard task as I have not come across that type of editing yet.

My purpose of all this is to show that I have a clear understanding of pop art and able to create a piece of pop art in which I would then put on display on black card to help my bright image pop