Pop Art

Examination of Art Types:

Pop Art

Pop art is a style of art that emerged in the mid-50s in England and the late 50s in America. It is most commonly seen today in comic books and often utilizes a diamond or dotted pattern to create the illusion of something being coloured in with more than one colour, for example, shading.

A picture of Cinderella in pop art:

The dotted pattern has helped to create a shading effect on the shoe, and a pale red effect on the face, as the dots are red but appear pink because of the white background.

The art style is mostly used for commercialism and advertising, so the above image could be a comment on women's apparent love of shoes, with the shoe being highlighted with stars.

There is also a style whereby there is an image of something copied and pasted around 4 times and recoloured differently each time, such as in this picture of Mr. Bean.

The colours used are very basic and there is very little detail in the images, but it looks detailed because the art style uses thin lines and draws wrinkles on the face, but really only flat colours were used with no shading techniques.

The first most famous piece of pop art is by Richard Hamilton drawn in 1956 and is considered to be one of the first works of "Pop art".



My personal favourite pop artist is Simon Free, who drew this picture:


I like it because it reminds me of the art style of Saints Row The Third, despite pop art not being in that game.