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Leading Pop Artists

In American art, famous exponents of Pop Art included Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008), Jasper Johns (b. 1930), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) and Andy Warhol (1928-87). Other American exponents included Jim Dine (b. 1935), Robert Indiana (aka John Clark) (b. 1928), Ray Johnson (1927-95), Alex Katz (b. 1927), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929), Ed Ruscha (b. 1937), James Rosenquist (b. 1933-2017), and Tom Wesselmann (b. 1931).

Leadning British Pop Art artists included Sir Peter Blake (b. 1932), Patrick Caulfield (1936-2006), Richard Hamilton (b. 1922), David Hockney (b. 1937), and Allen Jones (b. 1937).

Famous works of Pop Art

Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych, 1962

What is Pop Art?

The British curator Lawrence Alloway invented the term Pop Art in 1955 to describe a new form of “Popular” art – a movement characterized by the imagery of consumerism, mass reproduction, the media and popular culture from which its name derives.

In 1957 English Pop Artist Richard Hamilton listed the “characteristics of Pop Art” in a letter to architects Peter and Alison Smithson. The list read as follows:

“Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business.”

The Pop Art artists took inspiration from advertising, pulp magazines, billboards, movies, television, comic strips, and shop windows for their humorous, witty and ironic works, which both can be seen as a celebration and a critique of popular culture.

With Pop Art, art mirrored the times of mass-production and quick, banal entertainment. Everyday objects like Campbell’s soup cans and pop culture celebrities like Marilyn Monroe were transformed into art and have become icons of the movement. But how did Pop Art emerge, who were the key players, and what were their artistic aims?

François Pop Art

Mission

Have fun and don’t be too serious , relax , enjoy life . Life is short !

Vision

Mass production is killing the planet buy what you want ! Say no to Pollution !!!!!