Pop Art - painting
Artistic trend, which was named Pop Art was born in the U.S. and UK in the early fifties of the twentieth century. Pop art is manifested in the art of consumer lifestyles of people who began to draw on material goods.
This kind of art is largely influenced by mass culture, which is created by both the television ads and banners, logos of well known companies, comic books and colorful magazines especially for women. It was also inspired by surrealism, which was present in the art for thirty years. What made pop art different from other , already existing trends in art, is that it often used to create a work , something that already exists, for example, a well known advertising image. Pop art was to present, rewrite it so as to emphasize its kitsch and banality.
In Britain, a precursor of pop art is considered to be a London's Independent Group, which is a group of young painters, sculptors, architects and other representatives of art, who did not like “pious” approach to arts and culture . Their movement came into being in 1952. The pioneer of the works in the pop-art style and the creator of this trend was Eduardo Paolozzi. The sculptor created a series of collages from what he gathered during the previous few years in France. These were mainly comics, advertising, graphic design, book covers. His best known work is “I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything”. Other important artists of the islands are: David Hockney, Peter Phillips, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake.
In the United States, even though the pop-art appeared in the same time, it was only in 1960 under the influence of the advertising market, which is when it began to mark its presence, developed as a cultural phenomenon. In this country the most important representatives of this trend are: Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Tom Wesselmann. However, it’s not them who stayed the most in human consciousness. The master of pop art to this day, continues to be Andy Warhol. It is difficult yet to find someone who does not know the portrait made of several colored pictures of actress Marilyn Monroe or a poster showing a can of the popular soup.