Hi I'm Ellie and these a four of my
favourite things. Bananas, my red coat, tomato soup
and comic books. But what do they all
have in common?
Two little words, pop and art. Pop art is more
than an art movement, it's a lifestyle,
a craze, a way of looking at the world. But
what is pop art? Pop is young, bold and fun!
This is life in the 40s
 it's a bit grey
In the 50s, people wanted plastic and
glamour. They wanted to have a good time
Buy more, spend more.
Don't just watch TV, be on TV
now you can listen to The Beatles and Elvis 
watch cartoons, eat popcorn, drive cars and
become famous. Now it was pop art all
about culture. After all pop art means
popular art. Art for all.
But who were the
pop artists? Richard Hamilton, this guy.
said pop art is low cost, young, witty,
glamorous and mass-produced
Hamilton made collages using imagery he
found in glossy magazines, lifting images
from films and advertising was
completely bonkers at the time
This is one of the famous Marilyn portraits by
Andy Warhol. Who? Andy, Andy Warhol
This guy.
See? A cool guy. For Andy art was a
project. The same as a production line
of coca-cola bottles or Campbell's Soup.
He liked to use bright colours and silk screening techniques
to produce art on a huge scale
Pretty clever, I'd say. Pop art is
revolutionary!
pop artists were competitive
who could do what first?
Warhol had his advertising
Lichtenstein had his comic books
Paolozzi had his collage and Minnie Mouse
Wait, let's go back to Lichtenstein.
He used Ben Day dots to make his artwork
look like comics like the ones you get in
newspapers.
Female artists were also
rocking the pop art trend.
This is 'The Only Blonde in the World' 
by English painter Pauline Boty.
Pauline added fun
into her art and was a bit of rebel
Girl power Pauline!
Pop art came out of the gallery too
Nicola L took this big red coat around the world
to get people to get involved with her
performance. This made a real pop crowd
not the celebrity faces in other forms of pop art
Pop art can also be found all
over the world
In Iran Parviz Tanavoli  was a sculptor and painter
Like other pop artists
he made his art out of things that were
like they could be thrown away
in New York Jean-Michel Basquiat remixed it
from hip hop and street art.
pop is on TV
on the radio and on the internet, like
right now! Does that mean I'm pop art?
Well, there's one thing Andy Warhol and I can agree on
I don't know where the artificial stops
and the real starts
 
