Pop Art
The Pop Art Movement which started in Britain in the 1950s was a movement that aimed to show the idea that art can be drawn from any source and is most known for it's use of commercialized objects such as soup cans, celebrity figures. Andy Warhol: a key figure in the pop-art movement who was mainly interested in incorporating photography and drawing with highly commercialized components revolving around household brands and celebrity figures such as Campbell's Soup Can's which he was inspired by to use highly commercialized items like these to portray ordinary life and express his positive views of modern ideas that were arising in the 1960s. Another one of his works 'Marilyn Diptych' which is a work that has 50 images printed and copied over again. Taken from a film the actress played in called 'Niagara'. The painting suggests the relation to the actress' life and death. The work was largely positively received.
Pop Art artists also commonly used bright colours such as reds, yellows and blues which appeared in famous works such as Andy Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' and 'Marilyn Diptych', irony and satire where humour was used to poke fun at current events, trends and to challenge social and political ideas. New artistic techniques such as printmaking made it possible for artists to quickly reproduce images in large quantities. Andy Warhol used silkscreen printing which is a process where ink is transferred onto a paper or canvas. The Pop Art movement was also known for creating mixed media and collages.
Notable Works:
Andy Warhol - Campbell's Soup cans
Andy Warhol - Marilyn Diptych
Bauhaus
Bauhaus was a movement which occurred in the 19th and 20th century with artistic directions from the Arts and Crafts movement, Art Nouveau and many others, including the Jugendstil and Vienna Secession.
The Movement was deeply concerned with intellectual and theoretical aspects of the subject. Various aspects of artistic and design pedagogy were fused, and the hierarchy of art genres including Renaissance was levelled out by the practical crafts such as architecture and interior design, textiles and woodwork.
The Bauhaus movement accumulated many important artworks including 'Red Balloon' by Paul Klee which was created in 1922 and combined common Bauhaus themes such as translucent geometric shapes such as squares, rectangles and domes and are picked from a large variety of primary colours. A single red circle sits in the upper centre, revealing itself, on inspection to be the titular hot air balloon. And 'Yellow-Red-Blue' by Wassily Kandinsky that is built on three key visual areas yellow, red and blue shapes. These change in form over two overall zones of visual attention, on the one right-hand side of the canvas, formed from the interlocking red cross and blue circle, and one around the yellow rectangle to the left, embossed against a deeper shade of ochre.
Paul Klee - Red Balloon
Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow-Red-Blue
In conclusion, my findings on the art movement Pop Art was the simplicity of the ideas around the artworks themselves. Especially when analysing the Campbell's Soup Cans work as it was designed to romanticize ordinary commercialized objects and aimed to show that Andy Warhol approved of the modern ideas that were evolving at the end of the 1950s and throughout the 1960s and the other artwork Warhol created Marilyn Diptych which was taken from the actress' famous role in the movie Niagara, the artwork portrayed the artist's positive views on the actress and many art critics describe as a representation of her life and death and how it impacted modern society at the time and now. When researching the Bauhaus movement I discovered how influential this movement was to the design processes that artists and practical designers such as architects and interior designers use in current times. As I was analysing the paintings of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky I realised that I had seen similar themes and characteristics used in these paintings in my art classes in high school reflecting that this movement is still being used to inspire young artists and creatives.
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