What is pop art?
Pop art was an avant-garde modern art movement in the mid-twentieth century that emerged in the United States and Britain. Pop artists borrowed and appropriated images from mass media and popular culture, including Hollywood films, newspaper advertisements, comic books, and cartoons.
How do I save a pop art illustration?
To save your pop art illustration so it can be printed or sent via email, save it as a PDF document. Choose File > Save, and select Adobe PDF. In the Adobe PDF Preset menu, choose either the High Quality Print or Press Quality option, based on your print provider’s recommendations.
How did pop artists view art and culture?
Pop artists saw the established hierarchies of art and culture as detached from the environment they were experiencing in their day-to-day. They appropriated images from their immediate environment in order to blur the boundaries between high art and low art.
What did pop art look like in the postwar era?
Although it did not have a specific style or attitude, Pop art was defined as a diverse response to the postwar era’s commodity-driven values, often using commonplace objects (such as comic strips, soup cans, road signs, and hamburgers) as subject matter or as part of the work.