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After compiling half the list, we got down to researching for the other half of it. There are innumerable interesting and unknown facts about pop art, but we bottled them down to the most relevant five. Here they are again for you to read and enjoy.

#5

Coincidence with pop music

The 1950s were also the time of shakin’, swinging and pop music. As the fan-base for everything new n’ wild increased, so did the acceptance of pop art. People liked flamboyance and were enjoying the era of consumerism, that had arrived right after the World War. So everything pop began around the same time, during the 1950s and the 1960s.

#4

Satire in Art

It was only through this form of art that satire came center-stage. Be it blowing up images to massive proportions, overplaying emotions, underplaying reason or adding blurbs or satirical content, this art form did and continues to do it all. From bringing disturbing social evils onto walls to creating caricatures of political icons and celebrities, the visual vent is seen here.

#3

What’s in the name Blek le Rat?

Many of you may know that Blek le Rat was a famous graffiti artist, known also as the father of stenciling in graffiti. However, few know the magic behind his name.  He took to adding ‘le rat’ after his which when translated from French means ‘the rat’. He loved this name for he also loved painting images of rats and considered them to be the only free animal in town. And of course, like the rats, he kept the police on their feet, escaping capture many times.

#2

Pop Art and Bright Colours

When pop art began as a culture, artists mainly used bright, vivid and predominant colours. These included reds, blues, yellows and often black and white too. The main reason for doing so was to enhance the liveliness of the image and make it more attractive. Contrary to other art forms, pop art has seldom been about making things look realistic and often been about making things look larger than life.

#1

Pop Art continues to be Popular

As long as there are media and technology pushing things of interest our way, pop art will continue to remain popular. After 47 years, what began as a retaliation against abstract art has lived on. The art form lives on because it relates to people, talks about people and makes them laugh, smile and think. And so, the top fact about pop art will be that it has survived the test of time and will live for a long many years. Only its form and style will evolve to reflect the recent and the current.

Many exciting things happen in the world of pop art. And along with the bright styles of art, it is these stories that make pop art even more interesting, even more relevant and even more real. The above ten facts are just the visible tip of the iceberg. Soon we will bring you more such interesting stuff. Till then, au revoir and enjoy the art around you!

Genuine Andy Warhol Portrait

Well, yes! The world of pop art is full of many surprises, interesting trivia and amazing facts. In this article, we bring you five interesting things that you most probably did not know, or never noticed about this art form. The remaining five things would feature in our next article, so do watch out for that too.

#10

The origin, the pop art movement

The word ‘pop’ originated from popular, and signified that pop-art was one of the most popular art forms in all times. It began, not as an entity in itself, but as a retaliation against Abstract Artists. Though popular from the 1950s it continues to be celebrated even today, and the variety in styles is constantly growing.

#9

The original Starting place?

Many think that the pop art movement began in Britain, while others claim that it was in the US. Well, the pop art movement began after the formation of the Independent Group in London. From this emerged the Britain pop art movement in the 1950s. Very soon, after that, the art form became prevalent in the US also, during the same time. In America too, people were looking for more relevant and inexpensive art forms, which led to the creation.

#8

Differentiators of this style

The main things that make up pop art are: its connection with reality, ease of reproduction and public rights. This means that unlike high brow kinds of art, this is much more relevant with today’s age and times. Also, the techniques used (like screen printing, digital printing etc) make it easy to recreate multiple times for multiple purposes. Finally, the rights for using popart replicas are not with the artists who created the works, but the public at large, making it perfectly legal to use the designs in whatever ways they please.

#7

Media influenced by it

Not just art, but various other new-age media has been influenced constantly. It is an important element of packaging design, as many designers inspire from it. This art form is commonly used for creating personalised gifts of clocks, watches, mugs etc. It also influences online web page designs, influences typographers, graphic designers and even home décor specialists. Many fashion designers take on from the art form too, with shirts, scarves and other clothing lines being regularly created.

#6

Investment Value

Original pieces of art by the artists have high investment value and have only grown in price over the years. Popular auction houses regularly conduct auctions of pieces by top artists like Warhol, Lichtenstein etc.

#5

Funny thing about Andy Warhol

Besides being an iconic artist and a great lover of the high celebrity life, he also had a penchant for collecting things from department stores. This shopaholic hoarded a huge collection of folk art, biscuit jars, soup cans, perfume bottles, white wigs and even souvenirs. He believed that department stores were more like contemporary museums.

Roy Lichtenstein, pioneer pop art artist and creator of the cartoon style of art, is a popular name in the pop art world. His famous works live on to inspire all of us that life is creative. And along with his works, his words are alive too, motivating us at every point to bring out the artists in us into the real world. Here we share not just a virtual walk through into his style of art, but also his words that continue to inspire not just artists, but millions of people around the world.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Art doesn’t transform. It just plain forms.

I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way.

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.

People think one-point and two-point perspective is how the world actually looks, but of course, it isn’t. It’s a convention.

I’m excited about seeing things, and I’m interested in the way I think other people see things.

You know, as you compose music, you’re just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard.

I’m not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I don’t really want it to carry one. I’m not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.

In America the biggest is the best.

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