Pop Art
Commercial imagery school
Pop Art is the mid-20th-century art movement that drew on advertising, comic strips, and consumer goods to blur the line between fine art and popular culture.
Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns are major figures.
Pop Art emerged as a reaction against abstract expressionism. (Lowercase pop art describes the style more generally.)
Paid promotional communication
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
- packagingProtective product enclosure
billboards · logos · Coca-Cola · celebrities · Hollywood · comic strips · consumer goods · Campbell's soup
Stencil-based ink transfer method
- silkscreenStencil printing through mesh
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- assemblageCollected group of things
- photomontageCombined image artwork
Ben-Day dots · stencil · found objects · appropriation · repetition · seriality · cropping · enlargement
Innovative cultural pioneers
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
- dadaismAbsurdist artistic movement
advertising
Paid promotional communication
- brandingCreating distinctive identity
- mass productionLarge-scale standardized fabrication
- commoditiesTradeable raw materials
packaging · billboards · logos · Coca-Cola · celebrities · Hollywood · comic strips · consumer goods · Campbell's soup · Marilyn Monroe
screen printing
Stencil-based ink transfer method
- silkscreenStencil printing through mesh
- collageAssembled mixed-media artwork
- assemblageCollected group of things
photomontage · Ben-Day dots · stencil · found objects · appropriation · repetition · seriality · cropping · enlargement
Andy Warhol
avant-garde
Innovative cultural pioneers
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- postmodernismSkepticism toward universal truths
- abstract expressionismNonrepresentational art emphasizing spontaneous emotion
Campbell's Soup Cans
Iconic pop art series
- American ArtHudson River School, American Renaissance, Ashcan School, Abstract Expressionism, Harlem Renaissance
- 1960s ArtMinimalism, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono
- Andy WarholMarilyn Monroe, silkscreen, soup cans, silk screens, banana
- art movementsImpressionism, impressionism, Surrealism, surrealism, Cubism
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, minimalism
- art worldpainter, painting, paintings, sculpture, sculptures
Pop ArtAbstract Expressionism
Gestural, nonrepresentational American painting movement
action painting · lyrical abstraction · Romanticism · Symbolism · Minimalism
Pop Arthigh art
Culturally elevated creative works
fine art · sacred art · religious art · spiritual art · classical art
Pop Artclassical art
Ancient Greek and Roman works
Renaissance art · Old Masters · Neoclassicism · Romanticism · handicraft