Few Facts about Pop Art
Pop music and Pop culture are the terms which are quite common for audience as compared to Pop art. Really in our society pop means to go popular, going pop is itself an art. Pop art movement was established in 20th mid-late century. It basically tends to use most recent pictures or images from the pop culture to generate some fine pop art. Pop art gives a clear reflection of our materialistic culture in an intellectually engaging way; it represents some of the controversial and ethnic issues faced by our society. Pop art is a kind of art holding factual meanings and is representing reality unlike any art form. Pop art was an extreme antiphon to Abstract Expressionism which was dominating a lot after the World War II. Pop art was a success to pull people back from Abstraction. Thanking the innovations of some creative minds like David Hockey, Andy Warhol and special Keith Haring, this specific kind of genre of art ends Modernism and celebrates the arrival of Contemporary Art.
Here I will make present some of the facts about why people find pop art so appealing.
Use of colors and different mediums
The reason for the promotion of pop art movement was the use of bright colors. It tends to be visually attractive because of the prominent use of bright colors like red, yellow and blue. Various techniques are used like Ben-Day dots (a special kind of printing procedure in which dots are utilized to solidify the effects, color blocking. Hence these are patterns and features that make pop art appealing to the majority of the people. Hence the amazing use of vibrant colors and unique techniques can be viewed in Eduardo Paolozzi (I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything (1947) .
Artists initiated testing with the different mediums that brought an originality to art. Acrylic painting, silkscreen printing, assortment on canvas, the use of extremely complementary colors make pop art attractive.
Silkscreen painting
The factors that contribute a lot in the temptation of pop art are the amazing use of acrylic colors and silkscreen painting. Use of acrylic and other materials made pop art popular. With the passage of time it got finer and modernized. The paintwork and lines became clearer and sharper. Silkscreen printing brought life to the work of many pop art artist, here is a video of Warhol using silkscreen process to make his most famous painting of Merlyn Monroe.
Recurrent themes
The themes mostly used in the pop art are quite realistic and based on the true and actual terms. They are centered around household items, food, and much other mundane stuff. Unbelievable objects like toilets (Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Toilet) are also a part of the pop art which really makes it appealing to the audience.
Bridge between fine arts and commercial arts.
Pop art holds a lot of significance in the society because it has bought art for a common man that shows common life. This form of art has acted as a strong bridge between the fine arts and commercial art because of the accumulation of visual vocabulary of mass culture and techniques. It merged the realms of pop culture and fine art. This merge of fine and pop art is clearly visible in Andy Warhol’s painting Gold Marilyn Monroe .
