Pop Art is the abbreviation in English for Popular Art ("Popular Art", in Portuguese), a artistic movement that emerged in the mid-1950s, with the aim of "embracing" and deconstructing images belonging to mass cultures, the so-called "pop culture", made for large crowds.
The United States and England were the pioneer countries in p.op art, movement that was baptized with this name in 1954, by the English critic Lawrence Alloway, referring to all kinds of mass production that was created and consumed in the West.
Inspired by images and personality of mass culture, the artists of pop art they seek to make fun of people's materialistic and consumerist everyday lives.
In the artistic works of pop art, the use of elements created from the new technologies of the 20th century replace the traditional brushes, paints and paintings. Styrofoam, polyester, foam and acrylic were widely used by the artists of this movement.
Some of the movement's iconic works pop art are the Coca-Cola bottles and the famous Campbell Soups, created by Andy Warhol, one of the most important names in Pop Art.
Among the main pop art artists, the following stand out: Andy Warhol, considered the "pope" of pop art; Peter Blake; wayneThiebaud; Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.
Pop Art in Brazil
In Brazil, pop art has become an instrument to denounce social mistreatment and the political totalitarianism that the country was experiencing in the 60s, with the Military Dictatorship.
The prints on silkscreen and references to comic books and comic books were present in the reviews that the artists of brazilian pop art produced. Under a look at Wahol's ironic works, pop art in Brazil used this language, but not only to discuss consumerism and materialism, but also to attack the abuses and torture that students and intellectuals were suffering from the military government in that era.
See also:
- pop
- Art
- The Types of Art
