The Pop Art Era

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Pop Art is a very distinct era among others. While art eras such as Early and High Renaissance, Baroque, and Cubism revolved around Realism and War, Pop Art revolves around popular culture and abstraction. Pop Art started in the early 1950’s in Britain and in the late 1950’s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the Pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol in the United States, Andy Warhol being the most famous and popular in the United States. The term “Pop-Art” was invented by Lawrence Alloway in 1955 to describe the new form of “Popular” art. Pop art is thought to be a craftsmanship style that came back to the material substances of ordinary life, …show more content…

Most pop craftsmanship in the 50's and 60's was based around VIPs, for example, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, and Elvis Presley, alongside spiritless items that were new customer merchandise that were promoted, for example, Coca-Cola. Pop craftsmanship contrasts in the United States and London. American pop craftsmanship was known not mysterious, significant and forceful. American Pop craftsman used to manage pop culture and innovation principally as topics or allegories. American Pop craftsmen were more into these thoughts, for example, Andy Warhol's motto, "I think everyone ought to be a machine" and really attempted to make fine art that seemed as though they were made by machine. In London showed up the Free Gathering (IG), which was viewed as the antecedent of the pop craftsmanship development. At initially meeting of the IG in 1952, the helping to establish part, craftsman and stone carver Eduardo Paolozzi presented an address utilizing a progression of arrangements called Bunk! that he made in his time spent in Paris in the period 1947-1949. This arrangement of collections was made out of "discovered" articles like comic book characters, publicizing, magazine spreads and all kind of mass delivered representation that for the most part spoke to the American society. The main show-stopper which incorporated "pop" was Paolozzi's arrangement called I was a Rich Man's Toy (1947), where the pop showed up in a billow of smoke rising up out of a

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