04-05 / F.3 Visual Art / SLCSS
“Pop Art(普普藝術) & Hong Kong Culture”
Pop Art
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An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s
and made its way to the United States during the 1960s.
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The English critic Lawrence Alloway in a 1958 issue of Architectural
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Digest first used the term “Pop Art”.
The latter's definition of Pop Art "popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young,
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witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business" - stressed its
everyday, commonplace values.
Pop artists focused attention upon familiar images
of the popular culture such as billboards, comic
strips, magazine advertisements, and
supermarket products.
Andy Warhol
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He was the most famous Pop artists. He recreated
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quasi-photographic paintings of people or
everyday objects.
He really brought Pop Art to the public eye. His screen prints of Coke
bottles, Campbell's soup tins and film stars are part of the iconography
of the 20th century.
“Marilyn Monroe”, silkscreen
“Coke Bottles”