Sentences with phrase «define pop art»

James Rosenquist helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery.

James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City.

In 1962 his works were included in the New Realists Exhibition, which came to ultimately define the Pop Art Movement.

While each Pop artist developed a distinct style, there were commonalities in their approaches to image - making that helped define the Pop art movement in the early 1960s: the use of commercial art techniques, and the depiction of popular imagery and everyday objects.

James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died Friday in New York City.

«Andy Warhol defined Pop Art,» Deitch said.

Andy Warhol, whose work defines Pop art for most people, made portraits in every medium from the photo - booth snapshot to silkscreen on canvas.

The colorful celebrity portraits and re-purposing of consumerism (which became his trademark) helped forge a new American pop culture mythology, while also defining the Pop Art movement.

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Even the somewhat cartoony games such as Super Mario Odyssey, Pyre, and Cuphead bring with them a strong artistic style that makes the screen pop and truly helps define the game as a work of art.

Lorenzo is visually defined by only a few colors, taking place in front of a black background, but looks gorgeous on the small screen; John Henry is a particularly vibrant piece of pop art, with an almost mural-esque quality.

Cinema is an art form unlike any other, one that swirls disparate forms of expression — music, sound, writing, performance, photography — into one special medium that's helped define global pop culture for the last 100 years.

The art is really nice, the characters are well defined, the colors really pop, and the overall feel is of a lush fantasy world.

Saul is often associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group of artists typically defined by their Post-War tradition of fantasy - based art - making rooted in surrealism, pop culture, and the grotesque, as well as the Funk Artists of the San Francisco Bay Area.

His work, and its use of parody, probably defines the basic premise of pop art better than any other.

Enshrined as the first work of Pop art — which Hamilton defined as «popular, transient, expendable, low - cost, mass - produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business» at a time when Warhol was still drawing shoes — the piece will be just one highlight of the artist's first comprehensive survey when it opens at Tate Modern this month, chronicling a career that spanned both political art and collaborations with Mick Jagger and the Beatles.

From Blast to Pop features works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull and explores the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism (England's first abstract art movement) and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

His contributions are significant to many culturally defining moments: the Beat generation, Pop Art, Punk, the Pictures Generation, and the hip - hop era.

Incisively satirizing and confusing pop culture and the art world, Jayson Musson provokes the boundaries that define cultural stereotypes.

How you react to the story may define how you look at Pop Art and Andy Warhol.

In 1962, Dine was one of eight artists — along with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha — included in the seminal New Paintings of Common Objects exhibition curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which is often credited with defining the then - emerging field of Pop aArt Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which is often credited with defining the then - emerging field of Pop artart.

Pop art represented a rejection of Abstraction Expressionism in favor of a complete embrace of the consumerism, popular culture, and ironic whimsy that had begun to define postwar America.

Villareal's works reinterpret fundamental components of such twentieth - century art movements as pop, minimalism, conceptual, and post-painterly abstraction while responding to the ingenuity and imagination that defines technology in the twenty - first century.

«I define modern art as going up through abstract expressionism,» he explains, «then with Warhol and Lichtenstein and the pop artists, Johns and Rauschenberg, there is a return to the visible world in one way or another.

Saucy and ironic, Sam Durant's works address utopias and their failures, crossing events from the recent American past to create relationships between the art historical, pop cultural, and political phenomena that have come to define popular culture over the past 35 years.

Featuring over one hundred works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and William Turnbull, the show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism, England's first abstract art movement, and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

Finally, Roy Lichtenstein's work and its use of parody, probably defines the basic premise of Pop Art better than any other.

It tended to relate in that it was all so without painterly gesture and rather precisely defined as was «Pop Art.»

The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and environmental consciousness of land art by artists such as Robert Smithson.

Roy Lichtenstein's (1923 - 1997) paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures based on the style and imagery of comic strips and illustrated advertisements made him a defining figure within American Pop art.

Seen together, the works also reveal an artist breaking down traditional barriers between high art and mass media, a defining characteristic of Pop art.

His groundbreaking method would define the course of 20th - century art, influencing everything from Abstract Expressionism to Conceptualism and Pop.

When artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol were defining New York pop art, the maverick Conner was taking his own jaundiced, ironic, west coast view of a US he saw as violent, sex - obsessed and corrupt.

Etre moderne represents the wide range of artworks that MoMA has acquired over the decades, ranging from the early defining movements of the modern art period to Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop art and digital works of art.

«Traditionally, Pop Art, has been defined and dominated by a small group of Anglo - American male artists,» according to curator Sid Sachs.

In the early 1960s he embraced post-War American plenty with paintings and silk - screens of Campbell's soup cans, Coke bottles, Brillo boxes and celebrities, helping to define the nascent Pop art movement.

«Time» magazine stated that «his powerful graphic style and painted montages helped define the 1960s Pop Art movement.»

Roy Lichtenstein, the artist whose classic paintings of comic strips were a defining factor in the Pop art movement that exploded in the 1960s, died on Monday, Sept. 29, 1997, at New York University Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized for several weeks.

Roy Lichtenstein's work has long been considered key in defining American pop art, and the three recent exhibitions in New York speak to how much of an audience he can draw in.

In writing, performance and visual art that incisively satirizes and confuses pop culture and the art world, Jayson Musson provokes the boundaries that define cultural stereotypes.