Pop Art Defined

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Andy Warhol

Campbell’s Soup Can

1965 Takashi Murakami

Kaikai Kiki LOF

2009 Victoria Moyer Online Art 100

“an art movement that began in the U.S. in the 1950s and reached its peak of activity in the 1960s, chose as its subject matter the anonymous, everyday, standardized, and banal iconography in American life, as comic strips, billboards, commercial products, and celebrity images, and dealt with them typically in such forms as outsize commercially smooth paintings, mechanically reproduced silkscreens, large-scale facsimiles, and soft sculptures” (dictionary.com).

      1950-1970: Visual Art Movement Largest art movement to take place in the 20 th Century. Influenced strongly by the Dada art style Depicted are everyday items in bright, bold colors Covers topics such as popular culture, mass consumption, and the commercial industry Celebrated the United Generation of Shopping

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi Sack-o-sauce, 1948 Richard Hamilton

‘Just what is it that makes today’s homes so

different, so appealing?’ 1956

Van Vleck Series YOU, Robert Rauschenberg 1978

Still Life,

Tom Wesselmann 1962

Andy Warhol ‘Marilyn Diptych ’ 1962 Jasper Johns Numbers in Color, 1958 59 The Kiss, Roy Lichtenstein 1962

Three flags, 1958 Target with plaster Casts, 1955

Look Mickey, 1961 Masterpiece, 1962

Marilyn Monroe, 1967 Campbell's Soup Cans, 1962

$ (4), 1982

     2001-present Tokyo Pop Art movement Post-War Japanese culture Flattened forms of Japanese art Criticizes: otaku lifestyle, consumerism and related issues

Glow City Chiho Aoshima, 2005 Tan Tan Bo Puking, Takashi Murakami, 2002

Little Star Dweller

Yoshitomo Nara, 2006

White Kitty,2006

Guitar Girl, 2003

Tsunami Is Dreadful, 2004 Fountain of the Skull, 2008

Poka Poka, 2011 Reverse Dopple Helix Mega Power, 2005

Harajuku Vuitton store decorated for May Murakami release Murakami’s own Louis Vuitton design, A Key Holder

Grevy’s Zebra

Andy Warhol, 1983

And then Abstraktes Bild

Takashi Murakami, 2006