Pop Art

Explain Pop Art’s relationship to the 

dada movement.

“Pop Art is a direct descendant of Dadaism. They mock the established art world by appropriating images from the street, the supermarket, the mass media, and presents it as art in itself.” http://www.artmovements.co.uk/popart.htm

How did the American take on Pop Art 

differ from that of the UK?

British pop art evolved from the Dada movement and took on the idea of creating random and absurd images to mock convention and bring art to the everyday people. Where as American pop art was a reaction against obscure in Abstract and Expressionist images and makes art more relevant to the real world.

How has the visual aesthetic of Pop 

Art  influenced contemporary artists/ 

photographers?

I think that some iconic images of pop art have themselves been popularised and therefore been subverted themselves, and the colours used in other 60's fashion.

How has the “subversive” movement of

 Pop Art influenced contemporary art/ 

photography?

 

I think that the subversive are movement has used art as a voice an artist to comment on society.

Pop Art

Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterised a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture.

 




http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/pop_art.htm