Whereas Roy Lichtenstein continued to work with comics strips, making them entirely his own, Andy Warhol paved the way for post-modern contemporary art, using daily objects as his source of inspiration. However, their styles quickly evolved and they both went in rather different artistic directions. That same year, they produced a collection of comic book-inspired works, including Lichtenstein's famous piece Look Mickey. The two artists were supposedly influenced by the European Avant-Garde Artists exhibition that took place in New York, from 1960 to 61. It wasn't until the arrival of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, the two pioneers of the movement, that Pop Art became (for lack of a better term) popular.Īfter Warhol and Lichtenstein, contemporary painting was completely transformed: an artwork's value no longer contingent on rarity or on the subject it depicted. They were even looked down on, mostly by the intellectual elite. Another notable element of Pop Art is the use of bright colors inspired by advertisements.Īs art history reveals, the techniques and achievements of Pop Art were not held in high regard in its early days.

The emergence of this movement occurred in stark contrast to Abstract Expressionism, another popular art trend at the time, conversely striving to dispossess the elite of their artistic exclusivity. Pop Art can manifest across painting, fashion and other mediums like sculpture, collage… Pop Art artists are presented with various options, and often take advantage of the limitless nature of this art form.Ĭharacterized by specific visual and aesthetic criteria, Pop Art can be recognized by its various industrial processes, such as silk screening. This process involves using a stencil to copy the same image several times onto a canvas. Instead, Pop art is focusses on mass culture, consumer society and popular, celebrity icons.

Pop Art does not depict noble or aristocratic figures. It's characterized by the subjects it deals with as well as the techniques it employs. Pop Art comes from the term 'Popular Art' and was one of the key art movements of the 20th century. Colored silk screen prints are as popular as ever. In Artsper's own selections of logo-inspired artists, the likes of Diederik van Apple created his own version of Pop Art, whilst Efi Mashiah takes the logo and recycles the subject into a whole genre of the decorative object.Pop Art first appeared during the 1950s in the United Kingdom and has continued to inspire artists and audiences around the world today. The logo and its legacy within pop artworks have undoubtedly inspired the contemporary artists as the viewer is affronted by advertisement on the daily. Coinciding with the globalization of pop music, icons, and youth culture, Pop Art as an art movement emerged in the mid-50s in Britain and in the late 50s in the United States to challenge the traditions of fine art. Therefore, can logos become works of art themselves? The striking primary colors of the Brillo logo are burned into our minds associated with everyday life, they were elevated to viable subject matter thanks to Pop Art. The use of pictorial depictions got around illiteracy, stating where someone has been or what their trade was and in a world today dominated by visual culture – the logo is here to stay. The writer Steven Heller notes that the origin of the logo has its origin in antiquity, as a single image of something used as an expression of an individual or representing an idea, thought or indeed a product.

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