Pop Art in the Interior Design / ID: 658303

Author: allse (6)

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Published: 04.12.2012.

Language: English

Level: Secondary school

Literature: 9 units

References: Used

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Table of contents

Nr.	Chapter	Page.
	Introduction	3
1.	Pop Art history	4
2.	Notable Pop Art artists	5
2.1.	Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)	5
2.2.	Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997)	5
2.3.	Tom Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004)	5
3.	Pop Art in the interior design	7
3.1.	How to pick Pop Art and placement?	7
4.	Pop Art furniture	9
	Conclusions	10
	References	11
	Appendix	12

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Conclusions
1. Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950`s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
2. Pop Art - recognizable imagery, usually very bright colors, influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs, images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines.
3. No other artist is as much identified with Pop Art as Andy Warhol. The media called him the Prince of Pop.
4. In the interior, pop art style is often used as an experiment that is very enjoyable.
5. Clients usually do not agree with unique designs because it is usually more expensive than regular interior design
6. There are many ways how to décor your home in Pop Art style, for example, Music fans can hang replica gold albums on their walls, movie aficionados might hang classic posters, and individuals who love characters from popular culture might enjoy placing replica statues or figurines in various spots in a room.
7. Pop art soon began to influence product design during the 1960s. The term “Pop” originated from the quote, “popular mass culture”.
8. Pop art furniture was characterised by its use of bright colours, geometrical shapes and unusual designs.
9. Pop art, as an ironic and humorous way to comment on the contemporary society, often used market products, celebrities, comic strips, and advertisements as its raw material.

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Author's comment

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950`s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In Pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it. (1) Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them. And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony. It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. (1) Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964 or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.(1) Acquiring consumer goods, responding to clever advertisements and building more effective forms of mass communication (back then: movies, television, newspapers and magazines) galvanized energy among young people born during the Post-World War II generation. Rebelling against the esoteric vocabulary of abstract art, they wanted to express their optimism after so much hardship and privation in a youthful visual language. (2) What are the key characteristics of Pop Art? • Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products. • Usually very bright colors. • Flat imagery influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs. • Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines. • In sculpture, an innovative use of media. (2)

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