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POP ART is a style of magazine that produces

comics/advertisement's involving bright and vibrant colours like the
images above. Pop Art began in the 1950s and became very popular
in the 1960s. It started in the United Kingdom, but became a true
art movement in New York City with artists such as Andy Warhol and
Jasper John's Pop. POP ART uses images and icons that are popular
in the modern world. This includes famous celebrities like movie
stars and rock stars, commercial items like soup cans and soft
drinks, comic books, and any other items that are popular in the
commercial world. There are a number of ways that artists use
these items to create art such as repeating the item over again,
changing the colour or texture of the item, and putting different
items together to make a picture, however artist such as Roy
Lichtenstein produced there own complex images but either
cropping down images to create new story including little speeches,
for example he produced the images like the images displayed
above this page and below. Pop published their work in different
forms.

When looking a pop art comic you can clearly see the way it is
produced. Roy Lichtenstein made this famous picture called the
drowning girl. The main technique used to create this artwork were
mainly painting with a paintbrush. Lichtenstein uses strong, bold
lines that stand out. This was to create a dynamic effect and to
capture a sense of having being printed, as the works he
appropriated from were nearly always comics. He also had used

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paints, which are mainly in primary colours, or limiting the use of
many colours in one work. This painting shows clear examples of
strong, dark lines, most of which are not straight, but curved. Bendy
dots help to create shadows in the artwork; without which, the
painting would seem to be flat and 2 dimensional. The Bendy dots
were commonly used in the illustrations of comics. The swirling
lines, which form the motion of the water, give the painting depth,
adding to the overall space in the painting.

This painting is a Warhol's iconic series of Campbell's Soup

Cans. What made these works significant was Warhol's coopting of universally recognizable imagery, such as a
Campbell's soup can, Mickey Mouse, or the face of Marilyn
Monroe. Warhol wasn't just emphasizing popular imagery, but
rather providing commentary on how people have come to
perceive these things in modern times: as commodities to be
bought and sold, identifiable as such with one glance. This
early series was hand-painted, but Warhol switched to screen
printing shortly afterwards, favouring the mechanical
technique for his mass culture imagery. 100 canvases
of Campbell's soup cans made up his first solo exhibition at the
Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, and put Warhol on the art world
map almost immediately, forever changing the face and

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This was one of the very first Pop paintings that Lichtenstein created
in the summer of 1961. At a later stage of his career he would
begin to focus on the generic human figures that appeared in
cartoons of the period, but, early on, he chose immediately
recognizable characters such as Mickey Mouse . The work is also
distinct in being one of the last in which Lichtenstein actually signed
his name on the surface of the picture critic Michael Lobel has
pointed out that he seems to have done so with increasing
uncertainty in this piece, combining it with a copyright logo that is
echoed in the form of the open tin can above it. Some have
suggested that Popeye's punch was intended as a sly response to
one of the reigning ideas in contemporary art criticism that a
picture's design should make an immediate visual impact. Whereas
most believed this should be achieved with abstract art,
Lichtenstein here demonstrated that one could achieve it just as
well by borrowing from low culture.