ARTS Flashcards
refers to a style grounded in consumer culture, the mass media, and popular culture, thereby making it much
more accessible to the average person. The name pop art is short for popular art.
Pop art
is a prominent figure in pop art. His background as a commercial artist and illustrator explains why his works appear the way they do.
Andy Warhol
turned his attention to the comic book as another mainstay in American culture. He was remarkably faithful to the original comic strip images that he painted.
Roy
Lichtenstein
is all about physical sensations. It was developed in the United States sometime in the 1960s. Its artists create and organize lines, patterns, and designs that sharpen up the viewer's eyesight or eye perception.
Op art
was one of the key figures in the creation of op art. His lifelong fascination with line
and pattern, along with his experiments on creating illusion of movement in his paintings, became a significant
influence on younger artists of the time.
Victor Vasarely
requires artists to use their bodies in front of an
audience.
Performance art
walked around a gallery performing How To Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare. His face covered in gold leaf
and honey, he explained various paintings to a dead rabbit cradled in his arms.
Jose Beuys
take their art to the streets, parks, malls-their gallery-mainly from a preference to communicate
directly with the public at large, free from the confines of the formal world, and a need to be at the center of life.
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