Pop Art: History And Protagonists

Pop Art: History and protagonists

The Pop Art was originated in mid -1950 in the United States. The American Andy Warhol was the father of pop art, he had a rather hard childhood since at 10 years he was diagnosed with a disease called San Vito dance that caused various skin spots and moving his limbs uncontrollably, but his suffering does notHe prevented him from triumphing in his career.

In 1949 he moved from Pittsburgh to New York to work in various magazines such as Vogue or Glamor also worked in advertising and the good progress of his career facilitated to found his own study called Factory and through him he triumphs professionally and could finally make some of hismost notable jobs that included their famous portraits.

Warhol was a creative and multifaceted man with a very special gift, he aroused passions in every way through his works, but above all, he created and did it using all the techniques he knew: hand drawing, painting, engraving, photography, screen printing, sculpture, cinema and music.

Andy died at 58 years of age for a heart attack in New York, clearly left a great legacy in art history. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, is the largest in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Precedents:

Andy Warhol was the main precedent of pop art since it was the one who proposed it in 1950, he was recognized worldwide for his works since they "woke up" many sensations to the people who admired them.

Andy is considered as the father of Pop Art, in addition to his works he frequented techniques such as photography and the color game, this can be seen in his most recognized work "Marilyn Monroe series".

Roy Lichtenstein was an American Pop art painter, a graphic artist and sculptor, known above all for his large -scale interpretations of the comic art, born on October 27, 1923, in New York and died and died on September 29, 1997. Roy specialized in comic art through pointillism and sculpture also today his sculptures are around the world, such as his sculpture “Barcelona´s Head” is located on the Paseo Colón in Barcelona or his painting Morerecognized is "Crying Girl".

Representatives:

•  Keith Haring: considered as a representative of the street culture of the New York of the 1980s, began to create pop art after leaving the university, became known through independent exhibitions for its color paintings, the human silhouette and human silhouette andLove and peace messages that reflected their passion for art and personal seal.
• Robert Rauschenberg: He is known for his “Combines” collages of the 1950s, in which non -traditional materials and objects were used in innovative combinations. Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor, where most of the time combined these two currents even taking him to abstract expressionism.
• Peter Blake: "On the balcony" is an emblematic piece of British art art. At first glance it looks like a collage, but it is, in fact, a painting, he is one of the most famous British pop artists of the 1950s. Blake’s paintings frequently incorporated the images of advertising and collage elements. Peter shows the interest in the combination of pop culture with fine arts and folklore.

Movement techniques and characteristics:

The urban movement that constitutes pop art, unlike abstract expressionism thanks to that the art artists believe that expressionism cannot be easily understood and "normal" people would never understand, so it intends to unite art and life throughEmotions cooling. It has the purpose of reflecting the superficiality of the elements, that is, it takes accessible consumer products for all and represents them. With this, inexpression stands out, moving away from any kind of subjectivity of the artist.

On the other hand, repetition is a characteristic that abounds in this movement since in the media it is used as a method as well as to create icons and to anesthetize society about serious problems. Therefore, at this point in art history, art no longer imitates life, but is the life that mimics art or image.

This style arose from artists who were in total against abstract expressionism, artists of that time were totally sure that a person without artistic abilities would be unable to understand abstract expressionism.