POP ART

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.