American Pop Art
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American Pop Art developed from the newly found self confidence with which American art asserted itself in the fifties against European influence. The subject matter was Americanism itself in terms of the idea of progress, the media industry, and the star cult. The previous generation had brought forth a new tendency toward realism using contemporary subject matter. The development of the style took place in several phases. The first was the pre Pop phases painters took their leave of Abstract Expressionism. Then came the heyday of Pop Art, a phase that saw the emergence of a number of important artists whose work was rooted in the fifties and partly founded on experience acquired in commercial art, design and poster painting. They quickly achieved success and recognition as a new art movement with exhibitions, Happenings, theater performances, counter demonstrations, and street actions. By the middle of the sixties Pop Art was widely known, at which time American Pop Art spread from New York to the West Coast and Canada, and later to Europe and Britain. The last of the phases was characterized by an acerbic, radical realism, largely of American origin, with the subject being urban social relations ("Pop Art in America"). Among the artists of the movement were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and among the issues facing these artists, in part because of their popularity and in part because of their subject matter, is the issue of art as a commodity as opposed to art
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imes on various canvases: "He screened her face one time only on small, individual canvases, and repeated it--twice, four times, six times, twenty times--on larger canvases, positioning the heads in rows to create an allover pattern" (Bourdon 124). There was a difference between this and other, "earlier serial images of stamps and dollar bills, which seemed to mimic sheets of printed paper, the multiple Marilyns, though also regimented in a grid format, evoked strips of motion-picture film, with each frame slightly different from its neighbor" (Bourdon 124). Many of the Marilyns were screened in black on an off-white background, but a visually striking group was screened in black on a multicolored ground Warhol had previously prepared with hand-painted color-shapes corresponding to the actress's face, hair, eyelids, lips, and collar in order to create what appeared to be a color map of her face. he first set down a yellow patch for her hair, blue for her eye shadow, red for her lips, flesh tone for the face, and green for her collar, all against an orange background. The silkscreen was placed over the canvas and black pigment pressed through the mesh to superimpose the photographic image onto the colored background. Discrepa
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Approximate Word count = 1894
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)
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