Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:50 am by The Viking
pop art
Pop art is a very bold style of art that came from Britain in the 50's and later in America.
In a written piece by L.Allowat called "The Arts and the Mass Media" he named it Popular Mass Culture, he was one of the first to "defend" the new art form from critics and even against gallery owners.
He wrote that piece in 1958 and was a huge shock to the art world. The early pop-art was for most people Graffiti! And that style of art never got the reconosion that I think it deserves.
Most pop-art gets it's insparation from things that are big at the time, think of the can of soup by Warhol and Boshier who was in 1937 one of the first to do pop-art in Britain in collages.He was know for the chaped canvases. They drew there themes from comics and comercials and off cource the music at the time. Bold and daring things where about to be born all over the world, graffiti meets the gallery.
Kitsch was THE thing in pop-art, and in great matter stil is. But with its great style and ofter bold colours and themes that speak to most of us, pop-art is a very populair style.
Pop-art is considered to be a style that only they who have studied art can "understand" because of the unconventional and yet organised style. It is one of the last modern art movements.
After the abstract expressionism movement Pop-art had the answer and at first it was classified as Darda and there are some simularities but the satire and destructivenes makes that Pop-art is what it is, a mirror that has been hold up to us to look at. The good and the bad things.
In the 1920's Murphy and Davis started the American style of Pop-art that most of us will reconice as pop-art. They took insparation again from the populair culture and advertising themes.
That Pop-art is not just about painting was proven by Pedro Almodovar in Spain at 1970. His cheap budget movies are still great hits in some circles. I have seen a few of them and they are unique in its own weird and funny way. He used a fake commercial in every movie he made.
As for creating your own pop-art? OOOOHH a great world just opend up for everyone!
I have some great pieces of pop-art that I made when I was younger and I took my art from the streets to paper and canvas. Pop-art let's you be what you want to be, no rules or guidelines!
What most people will tell you when you ask them what is Pop-art, will be the Monroe series. These are done by using paint and Silk screening. I have done that and it is great fun! but takes time and is messy.
Easier would be to use a picture and photoshop. Now I am not a photoshop expert but grant me thy ear and I will try to tell you how to do it!
Open the picture, the go to image, adjustments, and at the bottom there are Invert, Threshold and other options, just mess around with them. I did and gotten this with some extra tinkering.
Painting pop-art.
More to come.....