Jasper Johns is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Johns is a well known artist who is most renowned for his work with numbers and flags. Johns did his first flag painting in 1955; this piece was called ‘Flag’. His first work with sculptures was done in 1958 and was called Flashlight. [...]
I was online looking at the different varieties of pop-art when I came across something that interested me. There are different styles of pop-art including digital. I found a website that gives a tutorial about how you can turn a regular canvas painting into a funky piece of digital pop-art using programs such as Photoshop.
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Popular art, aka Pop art, is a new wave of art exploding across the world. Pop art originated in England in the 1950’s and evolved into a different way in the United States around the 1960’s. Pop art expressed popular culture of the current time. In the United States, Pop Art was a movement that [...]
This piece is called L.O.V.E. and is by Robert Indiana. Robert was born in New Castle, Indiana in 1928. He started using Indiana as his adopted surname very early in his artistic career. He completed his education in 1954 and started his career there. One of his most famous works of art is the [...]
This particular piece of pop art is a portrait of the character, Homer, from the popular show, The Simpson’s. The piece is anonymous, so we are unable to give the person credit, but we are still able to admire their work and creativity. This portrait of Homer Simpson is a unique combination of a cartoon [...]
This particular piece of pop art was created by Andy Warhol. During the 1960’s Andy began making paintings of famous American products like Campbell Soup Cans. His painting included newspaper clippings, dollar bills, brand name products, and more. His philosophy is sort of strange- yet very interesting.
The philosophy of Andy Warhol: “What’s great about this [...]
Andy Warhol painted several versions of Marilyn Monroe. He used different colors, sizes, and formats. Warhol was fascinated with fame for himself, but also of those that were famous. Warhol painted many other celebrities and iconic people from history. The piece below is the Turquoise Marilyn and was painted in 1964. I like [...]
This is a piece of pop art done Marilyn style. It was drawn and painted by Laura Sotka. Laura likes painting dogs for many reasons. Laura also works with her sister Holly and together they paint what they feel is most important to them. They both share the love for dogs, and not just one type [...]
Superfly Gallery is a website devoted to pop-art, modern art, post modern art, and alternative art from the 50’s to the present. Every so often we will post different pictures, photos, video clips of anything pop culture related. Sometimes we might deviate from this and post something that we think if interesting or maybe [...]