Fernanda Munguía

POP ART...

“Campbell's Soup Cans”
Andy Warhol. 1962
pop art.
Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases,
Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79809

Pop Art - An art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Popartists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products. Leading exponents are Richard Hamilton (British, 1922-), Andy Warhol (American, 1928?1930?-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-1997), Claes Oldenburg (American, 1929-), Jasper Johns (American, 1930-), and Robert Rauschenberg (American, 1925-). 

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Why does it represent the history of that time?

Because it uses brands and it’s modern, also because we are totally influenced by the technology, the fashion and the consumism of European countries like England and also by the US.

Why does it represent the culture of that time?

Because nowadays, our culture is based on the consumism, the technology and the fashion of the big countries just as England and the US.

Why and what does it represent something you really fond of that time or period?

The use of a new technique, also because it is new, it is something nobody had done before. And the use of colourful colours.

Why do you like that particular artist that much?

Because he was the first one who got the idea of using brands. And I like his work, It was new and modern for that time, also because nowadays he is pretty famous because of his work “Campbell's Soup Cans”

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citations:


moma. web. november 9,2010. http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=79809


artlex. web. november 9, 2010. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/popart.html