Lichtenstein: The Evolution Of Pop
Kelly Stanton
ARH4642
June 3, 2005
Lichtenstein: The Evolution of Pop
Pop art seems to have emerged as a result of consumer culture in America, and also in a response – partly in accordance, partly in divergence – to abstract expressionism. Pop art during the sixties created a union of high art and low art – and now the low was overriding the high. The early sixties saw the techniques of the avant-garde used in commercial design (p 449), and it seems somehow fitting that in turn, commercial design would somehow find its way into the halls of high art. Pop artists – Lichtenstein in particular - retain some of the values of modernist painting, but in a way that greatly negates it; in pop art the representational images is back and here to stay. Lichtenstein's work, and indeed pop art in general, challenged oppositions that the previous art of the twentieth century had already established; it brought lowly subject matter to the world of high art, as well as certain......
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