Pop Art Myths'

Just What Is It That MakesToday's Home So Different, So Appealing?
Richard Hamilton, 1956

Collage, Advertising, Comics

This theme Inherits collage's tradition from Cubisme and Dadaism, but it adds a subversive and allegorical component.

Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing from Richard Hamilton is the perfect example for the collage point.

Roy Lichtenstein has centered his work into the introduction od comics into the sphere of arts. He basically Turned comic strips into large-format painting as could witness his painting Ohh... Right
The introduction of Advertising in Art is also a big aspect in pop art. For instance Coca-Cola by Wolf Vostell

Coca-Cola, (1961)
Wolf Vostell

Ohh... Alright (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein

Three flags, 1958
Jasper Johns

Emblems

This notion of Pop Art consists in appropriating several universally recognizable objects, such as the American Flag: Three flags by Jaspar Johns. Certain words, like "HOT" "POW" "OMG", could also be turned into emblems.

Myths

Love me do (The Beatles)
Peter Blake

Hollywood was an important business, which led some Pop Artists to immortalize those who achieved success in Hollywood, and became immediately idols, They even transform those stars into object of veneration. For example Love me do (The Beatles) by Peter Blake. Pop artists were even able to combine the media power of the great american idols. As the poster of the movie Casablanca by Mimmo Rotella.

Casablanca, Mimmo Rotella

Four Self Portraits - 1990
Richard Hamilton

Potraits

Pop Artists also based their works on preexisting images. They opened the door to postmodernism,where the representation no longer follows reality but rather precedes it. The model of the portrait fades away of self-portraits, like Four Self Portraits by Richard Hamilton. 

from Paolozzi’s General Dynamic
F.U.N. series (1970)

Some of them has even chose to represent some portraits people were not used to see, like General Dynamic F.U.N by Paolozzi

Landscapes, Interiors, Still Lifes

Contemporary food and packages,
by Tom Wesselmann 

The representation of traditional genres of painting: landscapes, interiors, and still lives, are adapted to the contemporary urban milieu: Dishes by James Rosenquist.

In Pop Art Still Life is no longer a tradition, private painting, but as in this era costumer society became more and more important, they stared painting public commercial space: Contemporary food and packages by Tom Wesselmann

This genre is the perfect illustration of Pop Art's principe: Every object can become art.

Disches, 1964
james rosenquist

He Foresaw His Pale Body, 1990Richard Hamilton

Urban Eroticism

In the middle of the 20th century, social attitude and normal changed, leading to mire freedoms mainly in erotism. Mass media became inundated with erotic metaphors, such as Pin-up by Richard Hamilton, which were immediately incorporated into the visual repertoire of pop art. 

Pin-up, 1961Richard Hamilton

We could find in it almost photographic realism, of women and man, transformed into objects of desire. For example, He Foresaw His Pale Body by Richard Hamilton.

Andy Warhol.  Mao, 1973.

History Painting

Pop Artist wanted to rethink and reinterpret recent and past history in new artistic media. As they're century was THE century of political event, were Politics were "on fire": Mao's era, Cold war, Franco's Era, civil wars, etc.. Pop Artists saw this opportunity, and decided to immortalize major history figures,  like Mao made by Andy Warhol, or Jackie Onassis made by the same artist, Andy Warhol.

Jackie Onassis by Andy Warhol

Peter Blake

Art about Art

Pop Artist wanted to rethink "classic" art, by making parodies of masterpieces, by ruminating on renaissance art: like Peter Blake's painting at the right. They basically used images about images to either turn them into a strategy of political denunciation, or to criticize the veneration in which were held into. They also make art about art, to give them an another reinterpretation, an another via point: like Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Alain Jacket.

Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1964
Alein Jacket