Pop Art Research Paper

“Modern art can be seen as a reaction to what came before it in culture, as well as a tool for creating new ideas.” Everyone has different perspective of how they view the world and every artists illustrate their work through connection in everyday life, to show certain feeling or emotion. One of Modern Art movements that I have been very supportive throughout my life is the Pop Arts culture. Pop Art is very unique in a way that is based on modern popular culture and mass media, it is critical criticism on fine art values. Pop Art started around early 1960s, mostly associated with New York artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein. Pop Art’s reestablishment was a huge transformation for the direction of modernism. They
Ever since I was a little child, I have always admired Warhol’s artwork. Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a very successful illustrator who also lead the artist of the Pop art movements in 1960s. His artwork performed variety of art forms such as filmmaking, video installations, and even including performance art. In late 1950s, Warhol began to devote himself more towards painting and appear the concept of pop art paintings and focused on mass-produced goods. One of his well known mass-produced artwork is the paintings of Campbell’s soup cans also referred as thirty two Campbell’s Soup Cans. Warhol was inspired by the renditions of ads and comic books when he saw one of the comic paintings of Roy Lichtenstein’s artwork. One of his contemporaries, Roy Lichtenstein was once asked, What does Pop Art mean to you? and he replied, “ We were looking for subject matter that was so despicable, that was so low, that nobody could possibly believe that it was really
What made his work significant was Warhol’s technique of alternating recognizable imagery;what we see on everyday basis and illustrating it as mass-produced item. His intention was to provide observation on how people distinguish these imagery in modern times, as it is being sold or bought. The selection of the color of the Campbell’s Soup can is red and white, dated from the late nineteenth century, and more familiarized in the twentieth century. The colors that Pop artists uses are predominant colors such as yellow, red and blue. As Warhol once said “Pop art is about liking things,” in which for him, he ate Campbell’s soup every day for almost twenty years. That’s what brought the debate between if Andy Warhol should be sued for not having copyright from the Campbell soup company. However, the Campbell Soup company did not sue Andy Warhol for not having copyright because Warhol wasn’t attempting to advertise or sell the Campbell’s Soup but the company saw his usage as freedom of