Where to look for PoP ArT style today? Maybe subcutaneous - in tattoos :)
"The ability to tell a story and make thought-provoking comments with just a few fragments of color is an artistic feat" With Pop Art - similar :)
Pop art - stands for "popular art" viewed by a mass audience. As an independent art movement, pop art has existed for more than six decades and has shaped many parts of our culture and public opinion, such as advertising campaigns and brand identity. No one associates this anymore these days with pop art, but in vain, exactly pop art is today's media reproduction - the initial prototype :) Alright, everything in a row ....
About pop art ideas birth, can be considered the year 1917. When Marcel Duchamp claimed, that any object, including his infamous one an example of a urinal, could be art, unless artist has intended it.
Towards 1950, artists leaned on this idea, to challenge the boundaries, that separate art from real life incrementally marking the first outlines of pop art.
Pop Art, that the pop art movement emerged in London, before it confidently entered as in the art scene in America. After all, outright American artist Andy Warhol has become synonymous with movement, that known as pop art. However, it was Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, as some of the founders of the Independent Group (an artistic and literary collective that met regularly at the ICA in London from 1952 to 1955) founders were British Pop Art and transatlantic PoP art forerunners.
Exists an assumption, that “American Pop Art” evolved in parallel and independently from English Pop Art, on its own and different from its counterpart in the United Kingdom, it is claimed, that it was abstract expressionist painting development. American Pop Art developed as an attempt to reverse the elitist and abstract trend, reintroducing from new, the image as a structural device in painting, in order to bring art from abstraction and ambiguity into the real world.
In 1955, on the art scene a p p e a r e d t w o n o t a b l e artists, who would lay the foundations for b r i d g e b e t w e e n a b s t r a c t expressionism and pop art. They were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, American pop forefathers.
After second world war, was observable the American economy grew, which combined with innovation, technology and media created a consumer culture. Which has more leisure time and income to consume than ever before in the US. It was during this period, in the context of art and culture, that Pop artists created their distinctive early 60s style Pop Art, as we know it today.
In opposition to abstract expressionism and the dripping paint and gliding brush strokes of Proto-Pop art, Pop artists used their paint to mimic the look of industrial printing techniques. This mechanical process, the methodically colored Ben-Day dots, was widely used for printing pulp comics.
I.n.t.e.r.e.s.t.i.n.g - Andy Warhol first began to produce and apply screen printing in Pop Art art, but then subsequently stepped back from the process, making others do the actual printing in his studio, aptly named "Factory".
Like many others at the outset of their careers, Andy Warhol was a successful and talented magazine illustrator and graphic designer. Exactly experience in the world of commercial art that trained him to speak with Mass, contemporary culture in the visual vocabulary :) Creating the opportunity to adapt the method, how to seamlessly blend the realms of high art and popular culture into an art language understandable to the consumer.
Pop Art movement’s goal was to disrupted the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept, that there is no culture hierarchy and that art can borrow from any source has been and remains one of the most influential features of pop art. Pop art was brash, young, fun, and hostile to the artistic establishment. It encompassed different, different countries painting and sculpture styles, but they all shared a common interest about the mass media, mass production and mass culture.
Pop art and tattoo technique fusion is a delightful blend, that combines traditional tattoo technique methods with elements, that were acquired from the iconic pop art movement. Today, pop art has moved aside from the art scene allowing new art styles prove their viewpoint, interpret their message, and address public masses.
T h a n k s t o s u c h s y m b i o s i s, t o d a y contemporary pop art works can now be found as skin tattoos execution, or on the contrary seen on the wall, you didn't mishear in our opinion, graffiti and tattoos are the home of today's pop art :)
Pop art’s translation in tattoo designs is both a visually striking and culturally significant experience.
Pop art tattoos are a dynamic art and personal expression fusion, which is characterized by bold colors, clean lines and iconic pop culture references.
Of course, the wall and the street are publicly available objects and more aligned with pop art's original ideology :)
But today we look at this art style through the prism of tattoos, then let’s forge ahead;
Pop art’s integration into tattoo design manifested itself as a parallel rebellion, freeing itself from the shackles of traditional tattoo aesthetics, but despite this, pop art and tattoo technique fusion is a delightful mixture that combines traditional tattooing techniques with elements derived from the iconic pop art movement. In a way, it's obvious that pop art's brave lines, bright colors, and undisguised modern culture embrace has found its home in the tattoo industry.
A vibrant fusion of culture and ink, pop art tattoos with their brave colors and striking patterns inspire to saturate the skin with intense color to reflect today's vibrant hues that are the trademark of pop art, creating a contemporary body art view.
S h a r p c o n t r a s t b e t w e e n black contours and bright colors create a striking effect that is instantly recognizable as a pop art tattoo. Shading techniques also play an important role in pop art t a t t o o s. A l t h o u g h traditional tattoos o f t e n i s u s e d gradient shading, to create t h r e e d i m e n s i o n a l v i e w, pop art tattoos often use flat shading.
This involves the application of a solid color to a specific area without a gradient. Result is a two-dimensional effect, which references the aesthetics of classic pop art comics.
Pop art tattoos are included a variety of themes and designs, which honors the rich legacy of the movement while introducing contemporary elements, that would be important specifically for You.
Bright color and brave outline use is a characteristic pop art tattoo feature. These design elements reflect the vibrancy and cultural resonance on the other side of the ocean as well.
P.S.
Before beginning this article, we, similar to the majority of society, were entrenched in the idea that in contemporary society, pop art still only lives in Marvel comics and 60s posters.
Re-reading this publication again and again, reluctantly come to the recognition that you were strongly mistaken in your beliefs. In the world of fashion and culture, that’s ever-evolving, exactly Pop art style tattoos have carved out a significant niche for themselves, one that is far from being filled. It is a stable art style that has successfully adapted to the demands of the modern masses.
Today, pop art tattoos are not just a form of individual expression; but it surprisingly functions as a style outline impacting fashion trends and shaping today's cultural discourse - must acknowledge impressive ! Who would've thought ….. :):):):)
