“Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience), Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business.”
A sample of many of the documents debating the “soda vs pop” debate are below and they can help explain why pop was frowned upon, and also why some didn’t want to call it soda. And if you look at a map of the “soda vs pop vs coke” you will see how things turned out 100...
Art Talk James Sturtevant Self Portrait Show Studio 402 “You do portraits. Why don’t you have a piece in this show.” I can’t remember who asked me that when we walked into Studio 402. It seems they have an annual self-portrait show. That would be a lot of self portraits if you...
Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it." The obvious irony of this statement is that the price of that Coke bottle hits the stratosphere as soon as Warhol signs it. As Cubism stands on the shoulders of Cézanne, Warhol's art is dependant on...
Andy Warhol was synonymous with New York City and the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. These days he might be best known for his paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans but he also completed a series of paintings of Coke bottles at around the same time as the soup can paintings that were con...
Possibly a couple of collabs, I have put it out there and just waiting, I am still exploring the renaissance mixed with more modern designs, it intrigues me how a couple hundred years ago there were all these amazing costumes for both men and women with incredible materials but there wasn’...
Pop art. Screenprinting and offset lithography, commercial printing techniques, minimised the importance of the artist’s hand and alluded to the assembly-line manufacturing of coke bottles or soup cans. By elevating the mundane to the level of high art, these artists blurred the line between ...
In 2016, 69-year-old Iggy bared it all for a Brooklyn art class, which was staged as "a performative event with Iggy Pop as model and subject" by English artist Jeremy Deller. This may seem like a softer side of a man better known for slicing himself with glass on stage, but...
Warhol began with Coke bottles and comic strips, but his work wasn't getting the attention he wanted. In December 1961, a friend gave Warhol an idea: he should paint what he liked most in the world, perhaps something such as money or a can of soup. Warhol painted both. ...