{"id":40785,"date":"2021-08-31T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/?p=40785"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:18:17","slug":"how-to-make-pop-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/how-to-make-pop-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Art 101: History, Techniques and How to Make It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop art, short for popular art, is one of the largest art movements known in history. The famous movement emerged in the 1950s and boomed in the 1960s in America and Britain as artists drew inspiration from commercial and pop culture and created bold pieces that reflected the realities of everyday life. American pop art was highly influenced by American consumer culture, fame and celebrity culture, and postwar culture. The movement began as a revolt against elitism and traditional artistic norms and was a response to the capitalist and consumerism culture in postwar America. It was essentially a cultural revolution aimed to break down social norms and free people from conformity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Artists turned to Hollywood movies, pop music, comic books, and advertising as a more relatable and influential source for creating pop art. Major contributors to the movement include Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, and Roy Lichtenstein, who\u2019ve created iconic pop art designs deeply embedded into our culture. Many believe Hamilton\u2019s collage \u201cJust What Is It That Makes Today\u2019s Homes So Different, So Appealing?\u201d may have sparked the beginning of the movement in 1956 in London. He described the movement\u2019s characteristics as such: \u201cPop art is: Popular, Transient, Expendable, Low cost, Mass produced, Young, Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So, is pop art still relevant today? More than ever. From art exhibitions to merchandise sales, you\u2019ll see pop art thriving all over the world. Artists today continue to incorporate pop art techniques into their designs, including signature graphic effects like saturated colors, strong outlines, dots, and bold cultural statements using everyday objects. Street artists like Banksy have shown pop art influence in their work using similar stencil and graphic design aesthetics. Pop art is still considered highly valuable in today\u2019s market. Andy Warhol\u2019s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) sold for a whopping $104.5 million in 2013!<\/span><\/p>\n

What Is Pop Art?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Pop art took everyday life and everyday objects and made them saturated with colors, bold outlines, and creative overlays. The style\u2019s vibrancy is uniquely incorporated into everyday objects like soup cans, fruits, a pack of gum, and tools, or in media like newspapers, magazines, and comic strips. Pop art made mundane and commonplace objects into extraordinary ones, completely breaking the artistic norms and cultural hierarchy that was in place at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pop art is instantly recognizable and can be spotted from miles away due to its zest and energetic colors and patterns, infamous imagery from popular media and products, and the innovative artistic techniques that characterized the pop art style. It often used repetition, symbols, overlays, and dots with primary color pallets of bright reds, blues, and yellows. Pop art also incorporated humor and irony which made the pieces so relatable to the masses. Artists used satire to poke fun at trends and fads, and bring light to current events and challenge the current way of life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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