andy warhol banana album cover Van Morrison Astral Weeks

Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture. The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media.Informed by neo- Dada and artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg influenced postmodernism and Photorealism.Transitioning away from Abstract Expressionism.“This is Tomorrow,” at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 1956, was reportedly the first Pop art exhibition.Started in Britain in the 1950s, flourished in 1960s-era America.In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture - comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media - to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way. Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s.

Andy warhol banana album cover Van Morrison Astral Weeks