Pop Art

The legend of Pop art and the first person that everyone thinks about is Andy Warhol. His simple ideas of taking every day objects that we have seen many times over and contextualizing them to show their beauty sticks in our minds. When we look at for instance the Campbell's soup can, we remeber it because we have seen it so many times, but yet we haven't recognized it in the art form. The bright, bold and vibrant colors that Warhol uses in his art also catches out attention and draws us in. I feel like artists before Andy Warhol or during the era were thinking, why didn't I think of that. His art is simple, yet brilliant. I loved that in the documentary he answers questions in interviews with small sentences or one word. The suspense and aggravation of not answer a question to its full potential also draws you into his work more because you want to figure it out. Meanwhile, maybe there isn't anything to figure out. Maybe the intention of Warhol's work is to just present the object as is and there is no meaning behind the art. Some times as viewers we look into art too deeply and miss the actual interpretation of the artwork.
Another one of my favorite, Lichtenstein that we spoke about in class, is awesome because of his work that takes the comics or again things that we have already seen and recreates them. I like that he uses the grid-like printing technique of the comics in his work and still love the bright and bold coloring of the art. The works of Pop art are simple and amazing all at the same time.