BOBDOG Art Class—Pop Art

　　Pop Art is an artistic style primarily derived from commercial graphic forms—also known as New Realism and Neo-Dada—that is characterized by the large-scale reproduction and replication of elements from popular culture, such as comic strips, fast food, and trademarked packaging. Emerging in Britain in the early 1950s, Pop Art supplanted Abstract Expressionism by the mid-1960s to become the dominant avant-garde movement. At its core, Pop Art represents a mode of expression in which artists of the new era fuse commercial art with modern and contemporary art. Bodbog Many of its design inspirations also come from Pop Art.

　　In the 1950s, British art critic Lawrence coined the term “pop art” to describe works that were satirical, anti-traditional, and deeply rooted in popular culture, exerting a profound influence on the younger generation of designers and artists in Britain.

　　Among the artists of Pop Art, the most influential and representative is Andy Warhol. He was the founder and principal advocate of the American Pop Art movement.

 

　　“Marilyn Monroe” is one of the most compelling themes in Warhol’s oeuvre. In his 1967 painting “Marilyn Monroe,” the artist uses the iconic portrait of the Hollywood sex symbol as the fundamental element of the composition, arranging it in repetitive, row upon row. These monochromatic, neatly aligned images of Marilyn Monroe reflect the sense of helplessness, emptiness, and disorientation that pervades modern, commercialized society.