Pop Art

The pop art movement intended to eliminate any separation between what was considered high and low art culture. Pop art incorporated a variety of styles but some people would argue that emotion was removed from the art work. “It could be argued that the Abstract Expressionists searched for trauma in the soul, while Pop artists searched for traces of the same trauma in the mediated world of advertising, cartoons, and popular imagery at large. But it is perhaps more precise to say that Pop artists were the first to recognize that there is no unmediated access to anything, be it the soul, the natural world, or the built environment. Pop artists believed everything is inter-connected, and therefore sought to make those connections literal in their artwork”-the art story.

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Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg are usually the artists associated with the pop art movement. The focus was peoples every day life. This art was also used as propaganda. Propaganda was “used to promote a particular political cause or point of view”. 

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