I was online looking for different pop art images when I came across something I had not yet heard of- Acid Pop Paintings. Acid Pop Art is the beauty of different color combinations and shapes. Grant Wiggins, an Acid Pop Painting artist from Arizona, has his own website filled with his fun and colorful Acid Pop Paintings.
Check out Grant Wiggins’ website at-
Grant Wiggins’ website
Below is one of the many cool Acid Pop Paintings by Grant Wiggins.
Jim Dine was born June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy during his senior year of high school and then went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of Cincinnati, and Ohio University, Athens, from which he received his B.F.A. in 1957. A B.F.A. is a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Dine later moved to NYC in 1959 and was one of the main creators of “Happenings”. He worked with Allan Kaprow, and Robert Whitman. He showed at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1958 and 1959. His first solo show took place at the Reuben Gallery, New York, in 1960.
Dine is related to the development of Pop art in the early 1960s. Often, he focused on everyday objects such as articles of clothing and even a bathroom sink to his canvas. Dine has created a number of three-dimensional works and is well-known for his prints and drawings. He has written several books of poetry.
This painting by Roy Lichtenstein was created in 1963, and is currently on display in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Roy was born in 1923 in New York. There he attended school, and even studied with Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League. In 1943 he went and served in the army for three years. After that, Roy taught at Ohio State, until 1951. At this point, he stopped his career of teaching and devoted himself to painting. Later in 1951, Lichtenstein had his first one-man exhibition at a gallery in New York.
In his painting, Drowning Girl (1963), he used thick outlines, Benday Dots to represent certain colors, and bold colors. I really like Roy’s “comic book style” of painting.
Abstract art is art that is not supposed to take shape of a recognizable figure, but instead uses colors and shapes in a different way. Abstract art is not a new thing of this century, it has been around for centuries. Calligraphy is an example of abstract, and non-figurative art. The Islamic religion, the showing of humans in art is not allowed. Some American artists who design with this method are Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, and Mark Tobey.
Mark Tobey is an abstract expressionist. Tobey specializes in his calligraphy. Mark was one of the first people to do “white writing” paintings. Tobey did a variety of these paintings and one example is below. The way Tobey can be so “out there” yet make sense amazes me.
This piece of Pop Art was created by Anthony Matos. Anthony Matos has quite a few paintings for sale at the website, “allposters.com”. This particular painting he has is like the Marilyn Monroe painting by Andy Warhol, except Anthony Matos used ducks. I really like the use of bright colors, and it’s in such a variety. You can check out the website and look for more paintings by Anthony Matos, and different styles and varieties of pop art.
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. Although Johns is often portrayed as Neo-Dadaist, he has some relationships to Pop Art because his work often has images in pop culture.
Johns is most famous for his painting ‘Flag’, done in 1945-1955. Personally, I love the painting. The way Jasper uses encaustic, or waxed based paint, really gives a new sense of detail to the painting. I still have the desire to go to NYC, go to the MoMA, and see this masterpiece for myself. If you look close enough, you can see that he painted encaustic over a grouping of materials such as newspaper.
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.
If pop-art interests you, then you should definitely check this out.
http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-popart.html
I decided to try it out except I used Corel Draw 11 instead of Photoshop. Here’s what I came up with.
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 reflected the direct relationship between the use of imagery and the adoption of modern procedures. Every artist that had a place in this movement established their own style and created their own identity. Some early artists were Roy Lichenstein, and Andy Warhol. The image below has some similarities to Robert Indiana’s design, L.O.V.E.
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 L.O.V.E. and he painted it in 1965. L.O.V.E has been used in many paintings, monumental size statues, and even on a US Post Office stamp.
The picture below is a canvas version of Robert’s L.O.V.E. work of art.
Below is a sculpture of the letters L.O.V.E. This is in LOVE Park in Philadelphia from a photo by donahuecolin on Flickr. Great pic!
Love Park, Philadelphia
Below: Here’s the 1973 L.O.V.E. stamp. You can get one on eBay for around $1.
Homer Simpson Pop Art
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 and pop art. The use of bright colors gives the painting a peppy feel, and it is still able to capture Homer’s funny personality. I really like the colors the artist used. Red is not a color I would think to use as a background, but the it was used goes perfectly with the rest of the painting.