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POP ARTPop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s
in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.
Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products.
AbstractExpressionismPost-WWII American Art The key unifying factor for all the artists
was their exploration of the avant garde of abstraction.avant garde of abstraction.
Pop ArtistsRobert Rauschenberg - Canyon, 1959
In 2007 the plot of the unsellable artwork thickened when the Internal Revenue Service slapped the Sonnabends with a bill for $29.2 million. The IRS claimed that the Rauschenberg possessed a fair market value of $65 million and the owners were required to pay the appropriate taxes, reported The New York Times.
Claes Oldenburg
Roy Lichtenstein Artist
Jim Dine 1935Jim Dine became one of the pioneers of pop art. Pop artists often chose ordinary everyday objects as their subjects, presenting them with detachment and irony.
Dine painted many images of bathrobes, neckties, hearts, and tools.
At the age of 12 Jim Dine’s mother died and Dine went to live with his maternal grandparents. Dine’s grandfather owned a hardware store where Jim Dine worked throughout his youth and came to know and appreciate the beauty of hand tools. It is not surprising that Jim Dine would turn to them as a theme later on. Jim Dine states that he adopted tools as a subject "because they felt right….like relatives…as though their last name was Dine."
actual objects.
Jim Dine 1935 Pop Artist
Jim Dine “The images I use come from a desire to define my own identity and make a space for myself in this world.” I saw
this robe in an ad and it looked like me...
