Like many art movements before it, the term “pop art” was coined to refer to a recurring artistic style that was heavily present in a given time period and was popularized by the famous artists who use them by paying special interest to everyday objects or design philosophies and elevating them into a creative expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans<\/em> from Sothebys<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Pop art truly started in the United Kingdom during a time when people began to question the idea of “high” or “low” art, believing that anything can and should be considered a valid artistic expression. Young artists of the time went to museums and struggled to relate to the art of the past, so they decided to work with what was familiar to them \u2014 commonplace objects, comic strips, advertisements \u2014 and created what would eventually be known as the pop art style.<\/p>\n\n\n Early pop art pieces involved taking different pieces or parts of known name-brand commercials or billboards and posters of famous people and collaging them into an abstract photo. This rough scrapbook-style method of creating imagery would rely on recognition and bright colors to evoke a feeling, and borrowing from mixed mass media gave way to emphasize exaggerated lines, sizes and textures reminiscent of early screen printing and other methods of mass production of the times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But modern understandings of the movement in the art world have drawn similarities and differences between American pop art and British pop art.<\/p>\n\n\n Although inspired by the same concepts of everyday life and abstract expressionism, British pop art was inspired by American pop culture of a distance, usually parodying Hollywood and consumer culture imagery. In the States, the pop art style was a form of representational art using hard edges and distinct forms that were heavily abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other countries took note and pop art artists emerged wherever there was an opportunity to express various frustrations with their culture’s historical art. Japanese pop art borrows heavily from their own traditional manga and anime, where the similar visual culture of comics are style staples of commercial art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doreamon in My Memory<\/a> by Takashi Murakami<\/a> from KumiContemporary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/ec8b1ef\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/856x519+0+0\/resize\/684x415!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsothebys-brightspot-migration.s3.amazonaws.com%2F35%2Fb2%2Fe2%2F501fe6b5b1b5eba887128a7059012dc0edc69fa94c153b17f49a74b8ba%2Fprints-andy-warhol-campbells-soup.JPG\")
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<\/span>The Pop Art Style Defined<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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