What ojects are used in pop art?

Answer 1

POP! Art was based on the consumer culture of the 1950s and 60s. The culture of this time was based upon conformity and mass production and consumption due to the flourishing economy of Post World War II. The term Pop Art was coined in 1956 by Richard Hamilton's "Just What Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?" which is a work of art that features many products that would be seen in the American home. To Andy Warhol, another well known Pop artist, said Pop art would be of images that people would immediately recognize. For example, Warhol had repeating images of coke bottles and Campbell soup cans to represent the mass reproduction of the consumer society.

Answer 2

Pop art of the mid twentieth century explored themes and concepts such as:

Mass production (Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans)

Mass culture (Roy Lichtenstein's comic book inspired paintings)

Popular icons of the time (Andy Warhol's Marylin Monroe portraits)

Abstraction from context (Richard Hamilton)

Answer 3

For British pop art, the focus was to highlight the rampant commercialism of the time. For American pop art, the focus was to highlight the industrial, mass-produced films, tv shows, and magazines that glorified popular culture.

Answer 4

Why was pop art created