Nine artists show you the cool genes of pop music.

When it comes to art, many people may think that it is divorced from the public, and ordinary people can't understand it. However, the appearance of pop art has broken people's inherent impression of art. It is an artistic style mainly derived from commercial art forms, and its characteristic is to enlarge and copy some details of popular culture such as comics, fast food and packaging with trademarks.

Although the genre of pop art has been established for a long time, it is difficult to understand its artistic style for a while, because it has a variety of formalism on the basis of strong and bright colors, so it is difficult to define its artistic style. But it is precisely because of this that it has become popular and deeply loved by the public.

If you are interested in it but don't know where to start, read on! This issue will introduce nine important pop artists and their related good books through the timeline, and take you to understand the cool genes belonging to Pop!

The 1920s

Roy Lichtenstein (1923)

Lichtenstein is one of the most important artists in the United States and a representative artist of pop art. He is most famous for his paintings that combine comics with advertising styles. Signboard colors and polka dots are his exclusive techniques, and "American philosophy of life" is the eternal theme in his creation.

Alex Katz

Alex katz is a famous American pop artist, and his interest in the contemporary living environment is the starting point of his painting. In his career of nearly 70 years, he devoted himself to expressing the temporality of the present and human perception, so he was called "present tense painting". His keen interest in complex things and imaginative painting makes his figure painting have beautiful and fashionable modeling composition and bright color contrast, and at the same time, it has the concept of fantasy realism and decorative traces.

Andy warhol (1928)

Andy warhol is one of the most famous figures in the art world in the 20th century. He is also an advocate and leader of pop art. In addition, he is a film producer, writer and rock composer, and has also designed records for the Rolling Stones and Diana Ross. In his creation, he boldly tried various reproduction techniques such as letterpress printing, rubber or wood rubbing, gold foil technology and photo projection. But he is most famous for turning characters into visual goods through screen printing and repeated images.

Yayoi Kusama (1929)

Yayoi Kusama is a famous Japanese female pop artist, but in her own view, she is just a "psychotic artist". Because she suffered from nervous hearing impairment when she was less than ten years old, the world she saw was covered by a huge net, so she kept creating and tried to express her illusion with repeated points. Throughout her works, it seems that we can feel an autobiographical and in-depth psychological content that she tries to present. Painting, soft sculpture, performance art and even installation art are all her creative forms.

the 1930s

Gerhard Richter (1932)

Gerhard richter is an important German pop artist. However, due to the differences in economic and political environment, his works are very different from those of the United States and Britain. His works cover a wide range, including abstract paintings, realistic works, minimalist paintings and sculpture styles. And his content is mainly photos, so every time his works can bring people novel experiences and feelings.

Huo Keni: Life in Pictures (1937)

Huo Keni: Picture-in-Picture is undoubtedly one of the most influential masters in today's international painting world, and even has the title of "godfather of English art". He created the most recognizable vivid image in half a century, and his artistic career spanned many fields, from collage photography and opera stage design to painting by fax machine, and then penetrated into the study of how classical masters used optical instruments to create. His works also cover almost all available media, including oil painting, watercolor painting, photography and printmaking. And he has been using the most advanced technology to participate in the creation, and at the same time absorbed many characteristics of pop art and creatively integrated them.

From the 1950s to the 1960s.

Jeff Koons (1955)

Jeff Koons is a famous contemporary American pop artist. Although he was totally denied in the 1970s when neo-expressionism prevailed, he had to work as a securities broker on Wall Street, but it was this occupation that kept him sensitive to business in his later works. His works bring one visual impact after another to the world with accurate and exquisite replicas of daily necessities, cute cartoon images and imaginative pop images. At the same time, his works are grotesque, bold and ironic, which often leads to strong debates in the art world.