Pop art exam 2 essay

There are no traditional rules of design for pop art (Osterwold 156). The bounds of walls and ceiling are fuzzy; the principal attention is focused on the details. White is the main color, but it is combined with several bright contrasting tints (pic.8).

Pop art can be as simple or as complex as the artist chooses. Trying to explain pop art is like sitting in an English class where the teacher analyzes every object as a symbol and every word in the book has an algological meaning. We will never really know what the artist’s motives are without directly asking the artist. During the 1960’s, Andy

His oil paintings with plots from the comics symbolized an American life in ironical way (pic.3).Andy Warholwas an American painter, designer, writer. He was a cult figure in the movement of pop art and in the modern art in whole (Danto 23).

It was like a mockery of beauty, spirituality and art. Pop art appeared in Great Britain, but French and American artistsgained the real fame. Similar art movements appeared in Italy, Germany and even in the USSR (at that time it was separated from the rest of the world with the “iron curtain”).