Pop Art Posters UK
Pop Art emerged in Britain and America in the 1950's with the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Blake and David Hockney and others. Artists took their inspiration from popular culture, consumerism, mass production and advertising, creating paintings, collages, sculptures and photomontage. Andy Warhol adopted industrial screen printing processes to create vividly coloured images of soup cans and coca cola bottles, and portraits of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy from photos cut out of magazines. Silk Screen printing (and a team of assistants at his New York studio 'The Factory') allowed him to produce his paintings as multiples, thereby questioning the notion of authorship in art. Roy Lichtenstein took his inspiration from comic books, enlarging images and dialogue onto huge, colourful canvases such as as 'Blam!', 'Oh, Alright....' and 'Drowing Girl'.
Other Pop Art protagonists included Jim Dine, Wayne Thiebaud, Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.