The World of Pop Art?

:This is about the art movement. For other uses see Pop art (disambiguation).

Category: Image - :Hamilton-appealing2.jpg|thumb|300px|Richard Hamilton. Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered "pop art".

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.Livingstone, M., Pop Art: A Continuing History, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990 Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artists use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation.Livingstone, M., Pop Art: A Continuing History, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990 de la Croix, H.; Tansey, R., Gardners Art Through the Ages, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1980. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop art is an art movement of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. Pop art, aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.

Much of pop art is considered incongruent, as the conceptual practices that are often used make it difficult for some to readily comprehend. Pop art and minimalism are considered to be the last Modern Art movements and thus the precursors to postmodern art, or some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art themselves.

Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.http://www.the-artists.org/movement/Pop_Art.html Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists. Consider the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art. Consider Warhol's Campbells Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.

Category: Image - :Campbells_Tomato_Juice_Box._1964._Synthetic_polymer_paint_and_silkscreen_ink_on_wood.jpg?|thumb|300px|Andy Warhol, Campbells Tomato Juice Box'', 1964, Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on wood, 10 inches x 19 inches x 9 1/2 inches (25.4 x 48.3 x 24.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York City

:For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song).

Andrew Warhola (, August 6, 1928 ? February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and public figure known for his membership in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the expression "15 minutes of fame".

Robert Rauschenberg (born Milton Ernst Rauschenberg; October 22, 1925 ? May 12, 2008) was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance.

Rauschenberg lived and worked in New York City and on Captiva Island, Florida until his death, May 12, 2008, from heart failure.

Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German artist.

Category: File - :Jasper Johns's 'Map', 1961.jpg|thumb|Jasper Johns, Map, 1961. Museum of Modern Art New York City. Flags, maps, targets, stenciled words and numbers were themes used by Johns in the 1960s.

Category: Image - :Numbers by Jasper Johns by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|upright|Numbers by Jasper Johns at the David H. Koch Theater.

Jasper Johns, Jr. (born May 15, 1930 in Augusta, Georgia) is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery.

Martin Kippenberger (25 February 1953 in Dortmund ? 7 March 1997 in Vienna) was a German artist known for his extremely prolific output in a dizzying range of styles and media as well as his provocative, jocular and hard-drinking public persona. He died at age 44 from liver cancer.

Kippenberger was "widely regarded as one of the most talented German artists of his generation," according to Roberta Smith of the New York Times. He was at the center of a generation of German enfants terribles including Albert Oehlen, Werner Büttner, Georg Herold[http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/3583], Dieter Göls, and Günther Förg. He collected and commissioned work by many of his peers: some of his exhibition posters were designed by such prominent artists as Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Rosemarie Trockel and Mike Kelley.

Kippenberger's artistic reputation and influence has grown since his death. He has been the subject of a several large retrospective exhibitions, including at the Tate Modern in 2006 and "the Problem Perspective" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2008; the exhibition traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2009.[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27kipp.html]

In 2008 his sculpture of a toad being crucified called Zuerst die Füsse ("First the Feet") was allegedly condemned by Pope Benedict as blasphemous.

He was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge.

is a contemporary Japanese Pop artist. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara received his B.F.A. (1985) and an M.F.A. (1987) from the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Between 1988 and 1993, Nara studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, in Germany. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since 1984. He is represented in New York City by Marianne Boesky Gallery and in Los Angeles by Blum & Poe. San Jose Museum of Art | UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 - September 29, 1997) was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described Pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".