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July 4th, 2008

Angie

Painting Art

Coffee House Cup Java Silhouette Wall Art Metal Mug

$10.95

Hang this fun stack of coffee cups in the kitchen for a fun bostro look. Light metal black finish cut out coffee cup design is perfect for a whimsical decor accent. Easy to hang and will enliven any bare spot you have in the kitchen….

Dishwasher and Microwave Safe High-Fire Ceramic Food Face Plate, 8-1/2 Diameter

Encourage kids to play with their food in a way both of you can appreciate – and even get a laugh – with Food FaceTM plate! Kids can use their creative minds and their yummy food to design wacky faces – green beans for eyebrows, gravy for a beard, mac ‘n’ cheese for hair, whatever their little minds can imagine – the possibilities are endless. High-fire ceramic dishwasher and microwave safe. Comes…

Bright Colors Blue Sanding Sugar 8 oz. Tub

$2.96

Sanding Sugar. Excellent for filling in brightly colored designs on cakes, cookies and cupcakes by Americolor…

Time Out

$4.21

Includes TAKE FIVE and BLUE RONDO A LA TURK. As the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Stickered: JAZZ MASTERPIECE 20-bit remastered….

The Dark Side of the Moon: 30th Anniversary Edition

$10.96

Dark Side of the Moon, originally released in 1973, is one of those albums that is discovered anew by each generation of rock listeners. This complex, often psychedelic music works very well because Pink Floyd doesn’t rush anything; the songs are mainly slow to mid-tempo, with attention paid throughout to musical texture and mood. The sound effects on songs like “On the Run,” “Time” and especially…

Baby Einstein – Baby Van Gogh – World of Colors

$19.99

The Baby Einstein Company’s “video board books” were designed as music-focused developmental tools to stimulate babies’ brains (prompted by research proving that exposure to classical melodies can improve verbal ability, spatial intelligence, creativity, and memory in youngsters). Now the company is expanding into other art forms, including color and art. The idea remains the same–taking bold…

The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Anglo-Saxon Book Painting [VHS]

“The Lindisfarne Gospels” is one of Britain’s greatest artistic treasures, a surviving example of Anglo-Saxon book painting of the late-seventh century. Written and illuminated in honour of God and St Cuthbert, in about AD 698 by the monk Eadfrith, afterwards Bishop of Lindisfarne, it is famous for the quality and intricate design of its decorated pages. Telling the story of the creation of “The L…

Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting [VHS]

$8.84

This BBC series consists of five one-hour cassettes featuring 10 episodes of a masterful odyssey through early art, the Renaissance, and baroque art to romanticism, the age of revolution, and modernism. Lumpy, likable Sister Wendy Beckett guides us on a spirited tour of art through the ages that the entire family can savor and repeatedly enjoy. This woman is a scream–acerbic, astute, and surprisi…

PBS American Visions The History of American Art and Architecture [VHS]

$144.50

“What can we say about Americans from the things they’ve made? When we look at them through the lens of their art, what do we see?,” host and acclaimed TIME magazine art critic Robert Hughes asks. This extraordinary series presents a panoramic view of American history as reflected by artists in every medium and genre, from “primitive” portraits of the Colonial era to the complex visions of the pre…

RoomMates RMK1439SLM Scroll Tree Peel & Stick Wall Decal MegaPack

$34.50

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Pop Art Paintings: Art Pulled From Popular Culture

The visual art movement known as Pop Art began in Britain during the middle of the 1950s. It later moved into the United States culture by the end of this same decade. Pop Art paintings are usually of characters that are popular in advertising, comic books, and anyone else who plays a large part in mass culture. Irony tends to be used extensively in Pop Art design. Even the most mundane objects can be painted or drawn in such a way that they are truly a work of art.

Sometimes the most intriguing paintings are of images that are common in everyday advertising. A prime example of this would be the painting of cans of soup that Andy Warhol made. Each of the 32 cans in the painting depicted the type of soup offered by a certain company at the time the painting was created. Andy Warhol played a large part in boosting the movement. His painting titled Eight Elvises, which is also considered Pop Art, brought 100 million dollars.

Paintings done in the Pop style varied between Britain and the United States, even though this movement was referred to as the Pop Art movement in both locations. In Britain, the paintings reflected what was popular in America and also added onto some aspects seen in Abstract Expressionism.

In America, paintings included irony, parody, and mundane reality. Pablo Picasso was considered a partial founder in the Cubist movement, but is also thought to have partially paved the way for future Pop Artists.

The Independent Group in London consisted of many young sculptors, writes, painters, critics, and architects. These individuals approached culture with the idea that it should be challenged. Discussions revolved around popular culture and often gave rise to various works of art that also focused on popular culture. It is this group that inspired paintings in the Pop style.

Paintings during the movement weren’t always created from paint on canvas. There were other visual arts that came to be as well. Paint applied to paper or material backgrounds, faces painted onto furniture or on many other objects were also considered Pop Art. These works of art took an ordinary object and forced the viewer of the painting to take this simple item into consideration. An example would be the flag painting made by Jasper Johns.

The American flag was made from a combination of oil paints and collage pieces, and then these were placed on canvas. This painting is of what looks to be a plain American flag, but it is actually a collage of materials that are red, white, or blue. These pieces of material gave depth and texture to the painting, causing it to be more than just a flag painting.

Many museums have a section of Pop Art paintings that includes something that is very well known to the public. Most people can identify what is being displayed in the painting, due to the image being pulled from popular culture. Depending on the age of the painting, it may focus more on what was popular during the decade that it was created. Nonetheless, these works of art are extremely fascinating for all to experience at least once in a lifetime.