Like so many artistic revolutions, Pop Art was often decried with some variation of This isn’t art! To some extent, these critics had a point: reproductions of commonly available images certainly was not what art had been up until that point.īut at the same time, American art had experienced a relatively recent period of realism, or naturalism. How did a style that often reproduced the same, over-distributed commercial images manage to have such a lasting impact? In order to understand that, we’ll have to look into the historical context of the time, place and the people involved. While all of this describes the visual features of Pop Art, it fails to truly explain what Pop Art meant to both its artists and its devotees. Roy Lichtenstein’s Whaam! (1963) via Tate Modern
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