Pop-Art
in England with the Independent Group, a group of several kinds of artists who
to escape intellectual art like Primitive art or Abstract expressionism and to bring modern technology into art.
In America Pop-Art
popular in the sixties with Warhol, Liechtenstein and Jasper Johns. Pop-Art
everyday objects into art and
the power of images.
The word ‘Pop’
from ‘popular’ and
ordinary objects as symbols of art which should be easy to understand, like advertising for a child. Pop art
art down from its pedestal and
it as something cheap and common, like mass-produced industrial consumer goods. This is why industrial processes like photography and silk-screen painting
.
As a result, the artistic gesture
absent and the work
no longer unique. This approach
in other fields like architecture and furniture design, of which the Sacco armchair (1968)
an example.
After the 2nd World War, the political balance of the world
. Europe
poor and exhausted and
reconstruction. On the other hand, the USA
rich and its industries
powerful. An era of prosperity and material wealth
and in the 60s pop art
this.