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pop art

pop art.
'young and sexy' Richard Hamilton

Pop Art brought back what abstract art had banished, the figurative world of objects that had been abandoned for the purpose of greater realism, and this was done in the most direct and powerful way imaginable.
At the end of the 50s, Pop Art, which had simultaneously developed in England and America, declared the everyday objects of modern life to be art works. The Pop artists drew ideas from everywhere and quoted images of popular mass culture, popular press, advertising, magazines, movies and product packaging.
The artists competed with the image media, which were starting to invade and dominate everyday life, by integrating the tidal wave of imagery from the media in their own works. ?Images from images?, these works were no longer devised but the artist.
Pop art was familiar and comprehensible to the public, unlike the elite art of abstraction; nobody had to be afraid of art because insider knowledge and education were not required. This art became very popular among young people as they knew and recognised the images. Art had suddenly become fresh and contemporary and no longer something that belonged in a museum.
On one hand artists like Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg, David Hockney and Andy Warhol, wanted things to speak for themselves and on the other served as a popular mass culture where the soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, and washing powder packages became the new superstars of art.

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