What is Pop-art?

Have you seen Andy Warhol's paintings of his Campbell's Soup cans? Pop-art is a form of technology art. Pop Art is images of popular things. Pop-art is images of ordinary objects, mass produced common everyday items that most people like and recognize. items like record labels, or logos, or packaging, and fashion pictures of people, Road signs, hamburgers, money, soda bottles, ( you know, stuff you see around you, anything currently in vogue RIGHT NOW) and machinery are also common subjects. Pop-art is also subjects and techniques taken from commercial artists, such as computer art, or silk screen images by Robert Rauschenberg, or comic book panels by Roy Lichtenstein. Almost any symbol of modern industrial life may be considered pop-art. Also included are themes of popular culture taken from movies, television, and advertising art.


What is Mass-Media?

Pop-art is also influenced by mass-media. Webster's dictionary definition of Mass-media: A means of communication (newspapers, radio, motion pictures, television) that is designed to reach the "mass" (majority, most people) of people that it tends to set standards, ideals, and aims of the masses. That is to say, mass-media is a way of sending a message to a vast number of people, and mass media can also influence this vast number of people's way of thinking. Because Mass-media can influence popular culture, it also influences pop-art. Hence, mass-media has influence on massurrealism. Given: mass-media is influenced by definition of technology: the body of knowledge (applied sciences, industrial arts) available to a civilization that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, or the system which society provides itself with those things needed or desired.


A Short History of Pop-Art :

Pre-Pop

-styles separate from abstract expressionism



Pop Art Peak

- paintings based on movements of 1950's
- individualise from advertisement, design, and poster painting



Pop-Fusion

- mid 1960's - craze of Pop Art assimilates throughout America
- spreads from New York City to the West Coast of Canada
- reaches Europe by the end of the 1960's



Post-Pop

- explosion of Pop Art settles with the realism of social conditions in America




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