Pop Art & Pop Art artists

The modern art movement of Pop Art was a hugely successful modern art movement. The hight of it's
popularity was during the 1960s. The champions of Pop Art were Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Tom
Wesselmann.

It is widely thought that Pop Art was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism or it was an evolutionary
move from Abstract Expressionism. The concept of Pop Art was parallel to the ideas of Pop Music whereby
it is designed to be consumed by the masses as opposed to soley the elite.

Pop Art used images of everyday household objects and presented them in a manner that made the audience
think differently about them or think about them at all. Famously the painting of a Campbell's soup tin
by Andy Warhol was a great example of the idea that objects can be presented to make people notice and
think about them. Would you ever usually study a can of soup for more than 3 seconds? probably not
Pop Art made people think about consumables and household images in a different light.

In the history of Pop Art one of the highlights was when Andy Warhol famously established, 'The Factory'.
This was Andy Warhol's studio. He had a team of workers who would run silk screen prints and lithograms.
The factory became highly exclusive and a hangout for the arty and famous.

The factory was a great example of what Pop Art had become and how it was sharing identical characteristics
to Pop Music. 'The factory' was also a great example of how Pop Art had become commercially identical to
to the household products and eveyday objects that were being featured within Pop Art it's self.
Andy Warhol's, 'The Factory' was mass producing Pop Art as a process ironically like
soup tins are mass produced in a process

What was interesting about the modern art/contemporary art movement of Pop Art was that it mirrored
the culture of the modern world. Comercial products were no longer hand crafted and a culture of
consumerism was well and truely in motion!

If you found this article interesting please read the other modern art/contemporary art movement articles outlining:Post Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract art, De Stijl, Expressionism, Conceptual Art, Fauvism, Futurism, Impressionism, minimalist, Dadaism, Pop Art, Pointillism, Op Art, Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and other modern art, contemporary art or abstract art movements.