Pop Art

Pop Art is an art movement that emerged in the mid - 1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Edwardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns in the United States. 

Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising and news. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of "pop art" refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes behind the art.

Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who then became a leading artist during the pop art movement. He then explored a variety of different art forms including performance art, film making, video illustrations and writing. 

Warhol is well known for many of his paintings, including the most famous Campbell's soup cans. Some of his other famous works included coca cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers. He also did many celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colours. Warhol's most famous subjects were Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jagger and Mao Zedong. 

               Campbell's Soup Cans

                   Marilyn Monroe

               Coca - Cola Bottles

Roy Lichenstein

Roy Lichenstein is an American pop artist, painter, lithographer and sculptor. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody. Favouring the comic strip as his main inspiration, he produced hard edged precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue in cheek manner. Lichenstein's work was heavily influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. 

Lichenstein is most known for his most famous art work 'Whaam!', ' Drowning Girl', ' Oh, Jeff ... I love you, too ... but ...', ' Look Mickey' and ' Woman with flowered hat'. 

                         Whaam!

    Oh, Jeff ... I Love you, Too ... But...

                    Drowning Girl

                       Look Mickey

Peter Blake

Blake is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

Blake also made album sleeves for the Band Aid single ' Do They Know It's Christmas?', Paul Weller's ' Stanley Road'( 1995 ), the Ian Dury tribute album ' Brand New Boots And Panties' ( 2001 ), The Who's ' Face Dances' ( 1981 ) and Pentangle's ' Sweet Child'. In 2006, Blake also designed the cover for Oasis's greatest hit album ' Stop The Clocks'. 

Band Aid - Do They Know It's        Christmas?

            The Who - Face Dances

             Oasis - Stop The Clocks

Banksy

Banksy is an English based graffiti artist and film director. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling and spray paint technique, with commerical, political and contemporary imagery infused with ironic social commentary and humour. 

Some off his most famous work includes 'Love Rat'(2004), 'Girl With Balloon'(2004), 'Kate Moss'(2005). 

                         Love Rat

                   Girl With Balloon 

                       Kate Moss 

Banksy also created a theme park called Dismaland. 

This was like Disneyland however instead of having the magical feel to the park Dismaland was the complete opposite and had the idea of nightmare instead.