Pop Art

ポップアート / 1950s–1960s / Style / Pop

Amplifies the vocabulary of ads and comics until mass culture itself becomes the picture.

Pop Art — Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, on view at MoMA — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
Andy Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, on view at MoMA — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pop Art — Roy Lichtenstein, Barcelona Head, 1992 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 ES · © Enfo
Roy Lichtenstein, Barcelona Head, 1992 — Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 ES · CC BY-SA 3.0 es · © Enfo

At a glance

Visual cues

  • Halftone dots
  • Bold outlines
  • Primary colors
  • Repetition

Best used for

  • Making products and campaigns pop instantly
  • Boldly reinterpreting familiar subjects

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Dictionary entry

Type
Comic-style extra-bold lettering
Composition
Blow up the subject; panels and repetition
Material
Red, yellow, blue, black outlines, halftones
Caution
Overusing comic marks trivializes the content. Decide what you treat as mass culture.
Further study
Andy Warhol / Roy Lichtenstein

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