POP art

The 1st presentation is find out a art movement and do research about it . After go through a lots of art movement  I have decided to choose Pop art because Pop art including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news,etc.
1: Brief history and background.

 What is pop art ? 

Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)
‘I was a Rich Man's Plaything’ (collage, 1947)
Tate Gallery, London

- Pop Art was the art of popular culture . It emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain  and in the late 1950s in the United State .


-The word 'POP' was first coined in 1954, by the British art critic Lawrence Alloway,  Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi
 
-The object of pop art are employ aspect mass culture such as : advertising, news, comic book, mundane culture.   

Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment.

History of Pop Art : 

 

It was the visual art movement that characterized 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. 

Richard Hamilton (1922- )
‘Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?’
(collage, 1956) Kunsthalle Tübingen