Contexts that Changed Graphic Design: Pop Art

Pop Art is the art movement that gave importance to the imagery of popular advertising for instance packaging and comic strips. It elevated such imagery to fine arts. In Britain such movement emerged in the late 1950s and in the US it emerged in the early 60s.

Pop art is built upon certain aspects of Surrealism and Dadaism. Pop art involves a combination of flat, brash colours with super enlargement of halftone screen dots. The first Pop Art image was a collage made by Richard Hamilton: Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?, exhibited in London in 1956.

Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Allen Jones and Peter Blake are British practitioners while Andy Warhol, Roy Liechtenstein, James Rosenquist and Tom Wesselmann are American pop art practitioners.

Some related work:

Roy Liechtenstein's work

I was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947) by Eduardo Paolozzi

Campbell's Soup (1968) by Andy Warhol

Modern design inspired from Pop Art:

Pop Art is still considered as an inspiration for contemporary artists. Many characteristics of such movement can be easily recognised it today's works, whether if its a web design or graphic design meaning in all terms. It seems that many contemporary artworks these day, are inspired from Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein's work, which they left the most remarkable mark and in Pop Art history.

Now a days, contemporary designers creates brilliant prints, digital illustrations, posters and much more. Their features involves such: strong multiple clolours, dotted images, series of images with one print, home utilities like television, radio, camera, and also portraits of famous people.