Mr. Spence | Pop Art | A Creative American art movement | || Art 0150/03 |

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Art Research project “Pop Art” Beginning in Britain in the late 1950’s, Pop Art was an exquisite way to express independence around the society, during this time Britain was emerging from ‘post war’ years. Pop art began as a movement that expressed modern times. The first people to begin using the term Pop Art was a group of artist who called themselves The Independent Group. These students attended the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
The meaning of pop art is to appreciate popular/mass culture, otherwise known as the “visual art movement”. Before pop art, artist used abstract ways to compel their paintings. They also used geometric shapes in their pictures, such as circles, lines, triangles, cubes and cones. Pop artist embraced post W11 and the media boom from after the war. Pop art began as the marketing for commercial goods and the endorsement of the products the society socialized. After World War 2, there were many new ads were circulating and many more products were appearing. People began watching T.V. and movies; artist noticed the trend and started to use common ads as symbols of their art. The majority of Pop artist began their careers in commercial art such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, and James Rosenquist. Andy Warhol is a famous Pop Artist. Warhol’s works explored artistic expression, celebrity culture, advertisement and marketing that boomed in the 1960’s. He began his works as a commercial illustrator, being known as a controversial artist. Warhol’s work contained many forms of media. The forms of media he used include; hand drawing, painting, photography, silk screening, film and music. Warhol is from Pittsburg Pennsylvania, in which he houses the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Roy Lichtenstein