On Pop Art

Pop art, the art movement that I love very much, was an art movement that emerged in England and America in the late 1950s and 1960s. British art critic Lawrence Alloway gave it the name "Pop art". By using this term, he was referring to the ordinariness of the visual elements used in the paintings and sculptures within this movement.

The distinctive feature of pop art artists is that they indiscriminately depict all aspects of popular culture that have a strong impact on contemporary life. The visual elements they used were taken from television, comic books, movie magazines and all kinds of advertising. These visual elements were shown precisely and objectively, with great directness, without any praise or criticism, and using commercial techniques employed by the media from which they were borrowed.

Pop art represented an attempt to return to a more objective and universally acceptable art form after the dominance of the intensely personal Abstract Expressionism in the United States and Europe. At the same time, he rejected both the sublimity of past "high art" and the pretensions of other contemporary avant-garde arts.

As a result, this trend makes me feel different emotions and causes me to be caught up in the harmony of contrasts in the use of colors. I especially love the prints of this trend used in clothing and textiles. For some reason it reminded me of the 1980s rather than the 1950s. I think it's due to the contrasting Neon colors.

The following names can be considered among the representatives of the pop art movement:

American artists: Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselman, James Rosenquist and Robert Indiana;

British artists: David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Allen Jones and Peter Blake...