Pop Art - Research Task

Pop-art was around from the late 1950s through to 1960s although still takes place even today, people make a selection of modern takes on pop art. Pop art was used in commercial products such as soup, powder containers, comics and pop bottles. Pop art later moved to more common products in day-to-day products. A popular soup is Campbell’s Soup brand which was designed by Andy Warhol who duplicated designs and created iconic bright and vibrant colours. Famous artists of the Pop Art genre is, as mentioned, Andy Warhol who created iconic branding for Campbell’s Soup, as well as Andy there are other famous artists. Keith Harring gained international success during the 80s creating a piece of work called “LUCKY STRIKE”. Another key duo in the Pop Art movement is Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggenare who placed an ice cream on top of a building in the United States. Pop Art constitutes a selection of bright and vibrant colors often repeated and changed for each repeat and can be found in collage form and in most cases seen as a cartoon incorporated with a real image. I think Pop Art was created by painters who all had the same vision.  Pop Art was made by the technique of benday which allows brighter colors to be added to your work. Pop Art is similar to graffiti in the sense they use spray cans and stencils. Pop Art could be used in advertising or branding of a product as it enables a unique look that is colorful and eye-catching, it can also be used in advertising as its not adverse and allows interest to be drawn to them. The product that could be used is anything vibrant and colorful. The equipment needed is 2 redlights, props, seamless white background, camera and tripod.