My Pop Art; Art Style Exploration

Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid- to late-1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane mass-produced objects.

Important Art and Artists of Pop Art

Roy Lichtenstein

He is an American painter and a pioneer of the Pop art movement.

In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein gained renown as a leading Pop artist for paintings sourced from the popular comics.

Roy Lichtenstein: Drowning Girl (1963)

Andy Warhol

Warhol's iconic series of Campbell's Soup Cans paintings were never meant to be celebrated for their form or compositional style, like that of the abstractionists. What made these works significant was Warhol's co-opting of universally recognizable imagery, such as a Campbell's soup can, Mickey Mouse, or the face of Marilyn Monroe, and depicting it as a mass-produced item, but within a fine art context. In that sense, Warhol wasn't just emphasizing popular imagery, but rather providing commentary on how people have come to perceive these things in modern times: as commodities to be bought and sold, identifiable as such with one glance.

Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup I (1968)

My Pop Art

Jui-Yi Hsu: Nerdy Shoe, Print making(Oct, 4. 2021.)

In the process, I focus on the print making technique with the meaningful object around me. I used my shoe because it is a pretty old shoe that be with me for a long time, combined with pop art and choosing colors and different collocations of colors.