Pop

Art of the 60’s & 70’s

By Todd DeRemigis
• Pop Art was an art movement
that began during the 1950’s.
It actually first originated in
England, but became even
larger once it crossed the At-
lantic and gained populari-
ty in New York City during the
1960’s.
• The Pop Art movement is said to have come
about because the artists, “thought the Ab-
stract Expressionists pretentious and over-
intense.”

• Pop Art really started in the United Kingdom

with work done by The Independent Group.
They mostly derived inspiration from images
of pop culture from the United States.

• Since they were so much removed form the

actual culture itself, its said they built upon
a more “romanticized” view than that of their
US counterparts.

• That said, Pop Art became very much inter-

twined with the culture in UK during the 60’s.
• Once the movement made a
transition to New York, a main
artist at the forefront was
Andy Warhol.

• He helped bring the move-

ment to dominance in the
1960’s, especially with his
Marilyn Monroe works soon
after her death.
• Simplified images
• Often large scale
• Designed for mass audiences
• Low Cost
• Mass-produced
• Young, witty, and sexy
• Subject matter taken from ev-
eryday life
• Usually curvilnear
• Bright colors
• Distinctive line thickness, and
clean shapes
• Clear images composed of ba-
sic forms
• Blurred the gap between “low”
and “high” art
• Attempted to make the art look
like a product of the current in-
dustry rather than a work of art.
This actually made it difficult
sometimes to distinguish what
actually was intended for art
rather than marketing.
• Pop Art drew influence from Ab-
stract Expressionism and Dada-
ism
• The movement was inspired by
some artists such as Pablo Pica-
sso
• Pop Art went onto influence oth-
er art movements such as graffiti
• Pop Art is still very much pres-
ent today and is thriving in Ja-
pan with works by artists such
as Takashi Murakami.
• Used the silkscreen process a
lot, which could create repro-
ductions of works

• Worked hard to make his

works not look handmade

• Used many types of media

besides silkscreen and paint-
ing, such as sculpture and
filmmaking
• Emphasized the constraints
of printing techniques in his
works

• Use pixilated dots and hatch-

ings for shadows and shad-
ings

• Used flat colors

• Used the frame of a comic

strip frequently
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