The influence of avant-garde movement on the world's art is still very much alive.

August 5, 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of the tragic death of Marilyn Monroe. An icon of
American film, Monroe was also the subject of many Pop Art creations. On August 6, Andy Warhol
– a leading figure of the American Pop Art movement, and for whom Marilyn Monroe was an inspiration - would have been 84. While this once avant-garde movement has aged, its influence on the
world’s art is still very much alive.

Pop Art.Exhibitions.

There are a lot of different exhibitions all over the world today. They are the most visited, than others. Also, works from exhibitions of bottoms of an art are bought for very high cost since people are interested in these works for today most of all.

Exhibitions of week: Roy Likhtenshteyna's pop art, Johnathan Meze's New Wave and other exhibitions of week.

Johnathan Meze in gallery Red October

21 February -10 April

The German artist Johnathan Meze is known as the gloomy merry fellow, a performansist and the admirer of a New Wave of the 1980th which he will reanimate all known and available methods of the modern art. It wrapped up Red October gallery a film through which the skeletons menacing to an inscription, symbols and other attributes of the gloomy world of the artist are looked through.

Mikhail Rozanov in MAMM
On February 21 — on March 17

From all subjects from an arsenal of photographer Mizkhail Rozanova — water, fruit, flowers, buildings — the most sensual and meditative turns out architecture. It will be possible to be convinced of it in "Multimedia Arth Muzee".

MIKHAIL TOLMACHYOV IN GALLERY 21
On February 23 — on March 21

MQ-9 flies against an inconspicuous landscape. It is unlikely something will confuse the modern person in such picture. But only not Mikhail Tolmachyov. Sorting topography of places and earth zones which supervise UAVs, the artist hints at the whole network of the hidden military bases scattered on the world, baring thereby danger of this quiet field and illusiveness of human tranquillity.

Roy Likhtenshteyn in Tate Gallery the Modernist style
On February 21 — on May 27
On Roy Likhtenshteyna's exhibition in the London Tate Modern should go fans of pop art, comics, fonts, cliches, surrealism, futurism, an expressionism — in general, all. The huge retrospective of the American artist is arranged in such a way that parallels between likhtenshteynovsky pop art and other art directions of the XX century become obvious.

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Pop Art.The most famous painters.

The most famous painters of Pop Art were- Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Billy Apple, Evelyne Axell, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Richard Hamilton and many others.

Each of artists took daily objects which gained mass character in Pop Art. Andy Warhol - bank of soup and portraits of movie stars. Roy Lichtenstein- heroes of animated films and comics. Jasper Jones - flags, cards and beer bottles. Musician Robert Raushenberg the founder of the known monogram, didn't try to follow traditions in art and to glorify or immortalize the person, instead Raushenberg introduced such forbidden subjects, as homosexuality, but only in a comic key. Richard Gamilton used the image of magazines and newspapers. Robert Indiana - a love subject in Pop Arth.

1992 Ter-Oganian Campbells Andy Warhol

In the style of Andy Warhol

Lichtenstein's painting Torpedo...Los! (1963) sold at Christie's for $5.5 million in 1989, a record sum at the time, making him one of only three living artists to have attracted such huge sums. In 2005, In the Car was sold for a then record $16.2m (£10m).

Johns is best known for his painting Flag (1954–55), which he painted after having a dream of the American flag. His work is often described as a Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture.

In the early fifties Robert Raushenberg passed through three stages of creation of pictorial works:
"White painting" — on a white background only black figures and some figurative symbols are represented.
"Black painting" — on a cloth scraps of the crumpled newspapers were pasted, and all this became covered with black enamel.
"Red painting" — abstract picturesque cloths in red tones partially with stickers from newspapers, rusty nails, photos, a twine, etc.

Indiana's best known image is the word love in upper-case letters, arranged in a square with a tilted letter O. The iconography first appeared in a series of poems originally written in 1958, in which Indiana stacked LO and VE on top of one another. Then in a painting with the words "Love is God". The red/green/blue image was then created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964. It was put on an eight-cent US Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps." 

So, all of them were sure that:
"Pop art — popular, fleeting, witty, fast-forgotten, sexual, young." ( Richard Gamilton)
"Pop — is love as the priest recognizes everything … Pop is similar to a bomb burst. It is the American dream, optimistical, generous and naive." ( Robert Indiana)

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Pop Art in Japan

Pop art in Japan is unique and identifiable as Japanese because of the regular subjects and styles. Many Japanese pop artists take inspiration largely from Anime, and sometimes Ukiyo-e and traditional Japanese art. The most well known pop artist currently in Japan is Takashi Murakami, whose group of artists, Kaikai Kiki is world renowned for their own mass produced but highly abstract and unique Superflat art movement, a surrealist, post modern movement whose inspiration comes mainly from Anime and Japanese street culture, and is mostly aimed at youth in Japan, and has made large cultural impact. Some artists in Japan, like Yoshitomo Nara are famous for their Graffiti inspired art, and some, such as Takashi Murakami, are famous for mass produced plastic or polymer figurines. Many pop artists in Japan use surreal or obscene, shocking images in their art, which is clearly taken from Japanese Hentai. This element of the art catches the eye of viewers young and old, and is extremely thought provoking, but not taken as offensive in Japan. A common metaphor used in Japanese Pop Art is the innocence and vulnerability of children and youth. Artists like Aya Takano and Yoshitomo Nara use children as a subject in almost all of their art. While Yoshitomo Nara creates scenes of anger or rebellion through children, Aya Takano communicates the innocence of children by portraying nude girls.

Takashi Murakami

Painting by Takashi Murakami

Yoshitomo Nara

Graffiti by Yoshitomo Nara

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Pop Art in Spain

In Spain, the study of Pop art is associated with the “new figurative,” which arose from the roots of the crisis of informalism. Eduardo Arroyo could be said to fit within the Pop art trend, on account of his interest in the environment, his critique of our media culture which incorporates icons of both mass media communication and the history of painting, and his scorn for nearly all established artistic styles.However, the Spaniard who could be considered the most authentically “Pop” artist is Alfredo Alcaín, because of the use he makes of popular images and empty spaces in his compositions.

Eduardo Arroyo

A painting by Eduardo Arroyo

Alfredo Alcaín

Painting by Alfredo Alcain

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Pop Art in the USA

Even if Great Britain was the cradle of this new art movement, it was American soil which proved the most fertile ground for Pop Art. In the mid-1950s, American harbingers of Pop Art like Jasper Johns (born 1930) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), launched their artistic careers. Johns became preoccupied with the 

American flag, which became a frequent subject of his paintings, as well as targets and numbers, which he painted with equal zeal. Rauschenberg specialized in the so called “combine paintings.” They, together with his sculptures, were executed in different techniques that incorporated photographs and various objects he found on the streets of New York.

Jasper Johns

Robert Rauschenberg

An encaustic Stars and Stripes painting entitled „Flag‟ made between 1960-1966 by U.S. 

artist Jasper Johns, is seen in central London, on February 5, 2010. 

Pop Art flourished in America in the 1960s and 1970s. It became a mirror of American everyday life full of advertisements, newspaper photographs, posters, wrappers, and containers. Coca Cola bottles, comics-strips, articles of clothing, used car parts, various boxes and many other items, all found their way into artistic creations during Pop Art’s heyday.

In this photo a 1961 painting by the late Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein, entitled; “I Can See the Whole Room!…and There‟s Nobody in It!” is shown. The painting was sold at auction by Christie‟s in New York,on November 8, 2011 for over $43 million.

This undated photo provided by The Art Institute of Chicago shows the painting “Oh, Jeff...I Love You,Too...But…” by the late pop artist Roy Lichtenstein

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Pop Art in England

The Pop Art movement began in England as a reaction against the abstract art of the previous decades. In the early 1950s, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London became the venue for exhibits and lectures delivered by members of the Independent Group. These artists and art critics were fascinated by the phenomena of urbanization, industrialization, and technological development. Famous exhibits such as “Man Machine Motion” and “This Is Tomorrow” were shown in Newcastle and London respectively in 1955-1956. These exhibits revealed a shift in focus of the art of the day. Artists were now interested in showing man’s surroundings, the home and everyday items, as well as real tangible objects. The word “pop” in connection with the new movement first appeared in artistic creations, e.g. collages “I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything” (1947) by Eduardo Paolozzi or “Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing” (1956) by Richard Hamilton  Both works are now iconic Pop Art creations. The term “Pop Art” is attributed to artist John McHale, who was himself often called the “Father of Pop.”

Man Machine Motion by Richard Hamilton

I Was a Rich Man’s Plaything by Eduardo Paolozzi

“Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing” (1956) by Richard Hamilton


Richard Hamilton

John McHale

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