![]() The following year, Warhol integrated silkscreen printing into his work and painted famous portraits of American starts such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Natalie Wood. Warhol chose this subject matter because it captured Pop Art’s focus on mass production and his own artistic interest in repetition. 32 Soup Cans is composed of 32 hand-painted and hand-stamped canvases, each depicting a different flavour of Campbell’s Soup. In 1962, he first explored his well-known “soup can” motif. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting,, photography, film, and sculpture. ![]() Signature Creations- The Manifestation of Pop ArtĪNDY WARHOL, 32 SOUP CANS and TURQUOISE MARILYN (1962)Īndy Warhol was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. ![]() Although the critics of Pop art described it as vulgar, sensational, non-aesthetic, and a joke, its proponents saw it as an art that was democratic and nondiscriminatory, bringing together both connoisseurs and untrained viewers. Pop art became a cultural event because of its close reflection of a particular social situation and because its easily comprehensible images were immediately exploited by the mass media. It was also iconoclastic, rejecting both the supremacy of the “high art” of the past and the pretensions of other contemporary avant-garde art. What’s more, pop art represented an attempt to return to a more objective, universally acceptable form of art after the dominance in both the United States and Europe of the highly personal Abstract Expressionism. Their iconography, taken from television, comic books, movie magazines, and advertising commercials was presented emphatically and objectively, without praise or condemnation but with overwhelming immediacy, and by means of the precise commercial techniques used by the media which inspired iconography. Made famous through work of artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, pop art is characterised by their portrayal of any and all aspects of popular culture that had a powerful impact on contemporary life. The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and the ’60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to the prosaic iconography of its painting and sculpture.
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