Essays on Pop Art

Introduction From first glance, American society during the mid-1900s was one of a new found creativity and pop culture. After the struggles of the Great Depression and World War II in the 1930s and 1940s, people in the U.S. found a relief in the new…

New Type of Culture Born in 1928, most of Andy Warhol’s adult life was spent during the years of an economic bomb and the growing cultural of mass production and consumerism. After World War II, the way production was conducted changed forever with faster and…

Pop Art came from a movement that started in the United States and Britain in the 1950’s. Some of the first artist to present Pop art includes Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jasper Johns and others that didn’t become as popular as the…

In this essay I will be discussing Pop art’s influence on consumer culture, society at the time and on contemporary design practice from the 1960’s to present day. Throughout history design has often been misinterpreted as merely aesthetics however design has had a significant role…