Does anyone have any interesting facts on pop art?
Pop Art was a popular culture movement in which the artists attempted to reconcile art with everyday life by returning to imagery of identifiable objects. Although techniques differ among participating artists, the imagery is cool, objective, unemotional, impersonal, sensational, fresh, transitory and usually witty. Commonplace objects provided the subject for fine art, i.e. Warhol’s soup cans. Originated in England in the 1950’s, Pop Art emerged in the United States in the 1960’s. The original shopaholic, Warhol shopping daily and hoarded a collection of biscuit jars, Native American folk art, taxidermy specimens (including Cecil the Great Dane and an African lion), jewelery, half-used perfume bottles, autographed photographs of movie stars, World Fair souvenirs, cowboy boots, Art Deco furniture, dental molds and his trademark white wigs. He had great difficulty ridding himself of objects. At the time of his death in 1987, only two rooms of his five-storey house in New York’s Upper Ea
