Pop Art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art is an art movement of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is known as being the leading figure for the period of Pop Art. In the sixties Warhol started painting daily objects of mass production like Campbell Soup cans and Coke bottles. Soon he became a famous figure in the New York art scene. From 1962 on he started making silkscreen prints of famous personalities like Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor. The purpose of Andy Warhol’s art was to remove the difference between fine arts and the commercial arts used for magazine illustrations, comic books, record albums or advertising campaigns.
Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips was an English pop artist who was one of the pioneers of the pop art movement. He mainly created oil paintings on canvas and mixed sculptures, collages, and architecture. He used the pop art theme of using many colors to create all of his works.