Pop Art Essay Examples and Topics

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…

Ian Burn is an Australian artist and art writer born in 1939 who focuses on conceptual art, an art form which concepts and ideas presented by the artist is considered to be more important than the final result of the art piece itself. In 1964,…

Introduction What is Cubism art? In this article, writer Jennifer Maugham states the reasons that make Cubism different from other forms of contemporary art. Maugham presents various characteristics of Cubism art and also discusses the advent of Cubism in the world of art. Cubism is…

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…

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…

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…

Ohhh…Alright painting by Roy Lichtenstein’s was created in 1964 using comics’ images which was originally published by Arleigh Publishing Corp, (now part of D.C. Comics). Using a limited palette of primary colours that appear innocent in concept yet portray an element of sexual attraction that…

Pop art was a movement which emerged mainly in the United Kingdom and the Untied States in the 1950s. This particular movement centered around art which took inspiration from mass culture, celebrities, and other popular movements. Three artists who dominated the movement were Andy Warhol,…

I remember the first time I saw Andy Warhol’s artworks was about ten years ago at an exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan. At that time, I was not a big fan of Andy Warhol and I didn’t understand why all the works that only show some…

Jamie James argues that, Pop Art is essentially ‘high art mimicking low art,’ it takes aspects of popular culture and elevates them to what would conventionally be referred to as Fine Art. The Pop Art movement first emerged in the years following the end of…