Pop Art Prints

Pop Art is a 20th century art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in UK and in the late 1950s in the USA. Pop Art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop Art is characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as packaging, advertising, celebrities and comic books (as seen in artist Roy Lichtenstein's Ohhh...Alright..., 1964 print and Drowning Girl poster), plus mundane cultural objects. Pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism as well as an expansion upon them. Pop Art aimed to employ images of popular consumer culture as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitch 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 such as Andy Warhol's adoption of the silk screen printing processes used to print cardboard packaging at that time. This allowed him to produce multiples of his images as seen in his Ten Marilyns, 1967 print, just like the packing companies had used silk screen to mass produce designs on cereal boxes. Pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein  often took their imagery from what was currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists. Consider the Campbell's Soup I (Tomato), 1968 labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping carton containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art.

Many of our Pop Art Prints and Posters by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and other artists are now available to order in bespoke sizes, so please don't hestitate to contact us with your requirements.