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Pop Art is more than just Andy Warhol
What is pop art? Is it a copy-pasted version of Marilyn Monroe, a movie theater promotional poster, or a soda can casually discarded in the trash can?
Pop art originated from the English "POP ART". It first sprouted in the United Kingdom and was later introduced to the United States in the 1960s. It replaced abstraction and became the mainstream avant-garde art in the United States. Different from people's impression of "high-end" art, Pop Art walks between art and popular culture, continuously narrowing the boundaries between life and art.
But, just knowing this, does it really count as understanding Pop Art? Today, let us enter the creative world of 10 pop artists and re-understand what pop art is.
Andy Warhol
Whenever we talk about Pop Art, Andy Warhol’s name is always mentioned most often. Many people recognize the iconic work of Popism as perhaps Andy Warhol’s series of repeated color photographs of Marilyn Monroe.
Andy Warhol 《Marilyn Monroe》
In 1962, Andy Warhol used Campbell's Soup Cans, which were very popular at the time, as his creative inspiration to create "Campbell's Soup Cans". He unveiled the "Pop Era" in an overly straightforward and powerful way. the prologue.
Andy Warhol 《Campbell's Soup Cans II: Old Fashioned Vegetable》
As the initiator and main advocate of American Pop Art, Andy Warhol resisted the "rigor" and "mystery" of art by his abstract predecessors and indulged in the "cheap" and "connotationless" mass consumer market. US dollar bills or cans, trash or celebrity photos can be pasted in any combination and become his creative tools.
Andy Warhol once left a sentence when he was alive: "In the future, everyone can be famous for fifteen minutes." Repeat, repeat, repeat, strong colors, and continuous replication create a strong visual impact, which is not only It became Andy Warhol's highly personal style of Pop creation, and it also continued to refresh the public's understanding of art.
Roy Lichtenstein
As an important figure in the history of American Pop Art, Roy Lichtens is famous for his iconic comic images, of which "The Kiss" is one of his most widely known masterpieces.
Roy Lichtenstein《Kiss》
One day in 1961, 38-year-old Roy Lichtenstein walked into a New York gallery with his prints. At this time, he did not expect that his works would become the best-selling "arts" in the future, let alone that he would become the "Father of Pop Art" as famous as Andy Warhol.
"I try to take a vulgar subject and reorganize its form to make it immortal. The difference between the two may not be big, but it is extremely important."
Roy Lichtenstein uses common comic strips as his creative themes, combining comic and advertising styles, using limited flat color blocks and accurate black line drawings. They were reproduced and enlarged with acrylic paint, and the "American philosophy of life" was expressed through the iconic colors and iconic large dots (Benday dots).
Roy Lichtenstein《Drowning girl》
Yayoi Kusama
Even if you don’t know Yayoi Kusama, you must have seen the “big polka dot” element that is loved by the fashion circle.
Polka dots are the symbol of Yayoi Kusama's works. They first appeared only in her paintings. Since the 1960s, this element has gradually extended to all types of her works, and eventually became her exclusive symbol.
Yayoi Kusama《Pumpkin》
In the 1970s, Kusama returned to Japan and began to paint more dazzling walk-in installations, public sculptures and "obsessed with dots". These coincide with the creative techniques represented by Popism, which break away from the traditional easel painting and use collage, screen printing, installation design and large-scale reproduction.
Yayoi Kusama, who has been labeled as the queen of polka dots, a psychopath, and a weird mother-in-law, is the only female Japanese artist included in the history of Western pop art.But she is not very willing to be called a pop artist, because when people mention pop art, the first thing that comes to mind is always Andy Warhol. If you have to give a frame, she prefers to be called an avant-garde artist.