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Pop Art
Painting

Pop art started in 1956 in London and in the 1960's it moved to England then to New York City where it developed completely. This art style used products, television, radio, newspapers and everyday life in their paintings. One of the most characteristic work from the pop art was the collage "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" by Richard Hamilton. There were other artists who's artwork's are important to say like:

  • Larry Rivers - He made "The Portrait of Frank O'Hara", this image is a image of the poet O'Hara and words written besides the image.
  • Jasper Johns - In 1958 he made "three flags". This artwork has geometric shapes like stars and rectangles.
  • Robert Rauschenberg - In 1964 he made "Retroactive I" using images from the newspaper to show current events two of this images are the astronaut parachuting back to earth and President Kennedy who was killed a year before.
  • Andy Warhol - He was one of the most important artist. He made one of his most important work in 1962 called "200 Campbell's Soup Cans".
  • Roy Lichtenstein - He painted about comic images such as balloons with dialogues written inside of it. One of his artwork is called "Torpedo…Los!".
  • Tom Wesselmann - He made "The Great American Nude", in this artwork he combined the traditional lying down naked woman with a different setting more modern and including flower vases, an electric heater and skyscrapers which you can see through the window.
Sculpture

Two Pop art sculptors in 1960's from New York City that usually made sculptures of everyday objects are Claes Oldenburg and George Segal.
Claes Oldenburg he made the "Giant Soft Drum Set" it was made with vinil on canvas. He liked to made hard objects but make them look soft in his sculptures. Another sculpture he made is "Clothespin" which can be found in Philadelphia and it represents a tall man with his legs open and a piece of metal that it has on the top represents an arm and the top part is the head and face.
George Segal made his sculptures different from Oldenburg because he made life-size sculptures like "Chance Meeting" which is three women that met in a place that has a one-way street.
Another Pop art sculptor is Marisol she made a sculpture of the painting from Leonardo Da Vinci called "The Last Supper" with blocks of wood. She placed the apostles and everyone in the same place that Leonardo put them in his painting.