4th gradepop Art Printmaking |
Pop Art is based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
Born:
August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, PA Died: February 22,1987, Manhattan, New York City, NY One of the greatest Pop Artists in History: Andy Warhol. |
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States. Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns among others in the United States.