Andy Warhol - American Hero

By Frank Worthington

A number of the most nicely-recognized artists of the Pop Art phenomenon, corresponding to Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, were born in the 1920's which was a boom time within the USA with money to spare and jazz music starting to make it is mark. But in 1929 the inventory market crashed and the US entered a depression that lasted till the mid-1930. Maybe probably the most well-known of all pop artists, Andy Warhol, was born at the beginning of that depression.

5. Pop Art coincided with the pop music phenomenon of the '50s and 60s' and it's highly associated with the swinging and fashionable image of London. For example, Peter Blake created the cover designs for The Beatles and Elvis Presley. More than that, he included actresses like Brigitte Bardot in his works, similar to the way Andy Warhol used Marilyn Monroe as a model. The style marries fine art with popular culture. The artists often borrow images from newspapers, comic strips, advertisements and other objects that are seen everyday and take them out of their typical context. They use fine art materials such as paint and canvas to create a new context for these images.

And it was the design and advertising of that new merchandise that the artists were commenting on, and influenced by, in a manner that no earlier technology of artists had been. They tried to use odd shopper objects of their work to encourage people to view them differently. Additionally they positioned frequent objects in unusual methods to make individuals take notice of them.

As for the US, throughout the Nineteen Fifties the artwork world was dominated by "Abstract Expressionism". It was till the early Sixties when art critics and American artists alike started to embrace Pop Art and provides this new style of art their very own inimitable American "take". In 1962, an exhibition entitled "New Realists" was held at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York. This was ground-breaking in America, not least as a result of the exhibition featured work from artists together with Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Jim Dine (b. 1935) and James Rosenquist (b. 1933). Of those, Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg went on to turn out to be key figures on the pop artwork world. Warhol became a household name.

Those who are interested in finding the exact piece for their collection or the works of a specific artist can look on the Web. Most artists have an official site that features some of their est pieces. Buyers can also go to local galleries to look at some of the pieces.

So what are the traits of Pop Artwork? Just because the world by which we dwell is endlessly different, so Pop Artwork used a wide range of strategies however the frequent characteristics that define works as Pop Art are as follows:

The buyer can look online and in galleries to find the pieces. There are many fine galleries online where you can find fantastic pieces of art at great prices, that you can get shipped to you framed.

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