Pop Art Retrospect: Sculpture, Poster & Painting
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in Britian and the United States during the mid to late 1950s. The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. One of the aims is to use images of popular culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture. It is also associated with the artists’ use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.
Below is a sculpture, poster and a painting inspired by Roy Litchenstein which was included in a Pop Art Retrospect Exhibition. The sculpture was inspired by Litchensteins’ Woman: Sunlight, Moonlight, which represented the triumphal return of the female figure and the painting was made using a Ben Day dot texture rendering techniques and comic book imagery.
