POP ART
Pop Art is not a stylistic term, but a generic term for artistic phenomena that has to do so with the mood of an era and establishing partnerships with the various surface elements of a society. It is a movement artistic, arisen at the end of the Fifties in England and characterized by the use of images and subjects taken from the world of the communication of masses and applied to the art of the painting.The term was used by first seeing by the British critic Lawrence Alloway in 1962 to define the art that some young people were doing, using popular images within the art.
It can affirm that the MGP is the result of a life style, the plastic manifestation of a culture (MGP), characterized by the technology, the democracy, the fashion and the consumption, where the objects stop being unique to take place in series. In this type of culture also the art stops being unique and it becomes a consumption object more. The subjects, forms and the means of the MGP Art show the essential characteristics that we associated with the cultural atmosphere of the Sixties and the mood of people.
The apogee phase of the "Pop-art: His work is based on years 50's and some of the experiences of commercial art, design and painting of the posters.
Major exponents: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman and Robert Indiana.
The third phase: In the mid-60 ' s American pop suffers an extension from New York to the West Coast and Canada. Later you come to Europe.
Last step: You could say that the last phase is determined by the radical realism and biting mostly developed in the United States, whose gaze turns to the social conditions of cities.
Are born Hippias: Youth who opposed the consumer society drug users, proclaim pacifism, his motto "make love, not war."
It can affirm that the MGP is the result of a life style, the plastic manifestation of a culture (MGP), characterized by the technology, the democracy, the fashion and the consumption, where the objects stop being unique to take place in series. In this type of culture also the art stops being unique and it becomes a consumption object more. The subjects, forms and the means of the MGP Art show the essential characteristics that we associated with the cultural atmosphere of the Sixties and the mood of people.
The Pop Art is divided into four phases
The first phase or pre-pop: In which Rauchemberg and Johns (main exponents) are separated from the Abstract Expressionism. 
The apogee phase of the "Pop-art: His work is based on years 50's and some of the experiences of commercial art, design and painting of the posters.
Major exponents: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselman and Robert Indiana.
The third phase: In the mid-60 ' s American pop suffers an extension from New York to the West Coast and Canada. Later you come to Europe.
Last step: You could say that the last phase is determined by the radical realism and biting mostly developed in the United States, whose gaze turns to the social conditions of cities.
Are born Hippias: Youth who opposed the consumer society drug users, proclaim pacifism, his motto "make love, not war."
