Pop Art

I have chosen Pop Art from the list of art movement. Pop art is defined as a form of modern art movement which emerged in 1950's which employs imagery, styles and themes from popular culture such as advertising, mass media,comic books etc. It was recognized as visual art movement which featured a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It is correspond to pop music and youth culture which personified by Elvis and Beatles. The characteristic of Pop Art is brash, young and fun. Pop art is also aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.
Different countries had different styles of painting and sculpture but they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture. Inspiration and ideas for Pop Art paintings were drawn from the commercial and consumer aspects of everyday life, particularly in American culture. According to Marion Boddy-Evans, Pop Art usually looks flat as its style with opaque colour rather than having depth created by layers of transparent, glazed colour which makes it can be recognized easily compare to other art movement. Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol are the famous and best in Pop Art industry.

Roy Lichtenstein
'Whaam!', 1963 (oil and acrylic resin on canvas)
Source: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Eduardo Paolozzi
'I was a Rich Man's Plaything' , 1947 (collage)
Source: http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Andy Warhol
‘Marilyn Diptych’, 1962 (silkscreen on canvas)
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Reference

Marion Boddy-Evans. Art Glossary: Pop Art. Retrieved from http://painting.about.com/od/artglossaryp/g/defpopart.htm

Pop Art - The Art of Popular Culture. Retrieved from http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm

Pop Art. Retrieved from http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Pop_art.html