Pop Art Strikes Again.

This is another post about Pop art. As the last article would have too much if there was another 3 to 4 examples. This time I am going to cover Roy Liechtenstein and other great artist.

 Roy Liechtenstein

 Roy Liechtenstein to me defines presenting everyday situations as comics strips. Popular brands were inserted into the comics in the late 1950's and the early 60's by other artists.  The most powerful set of images consists people crying for feeling hopeless, like the image to the side. The most visual aspect of the design is the threshold effect and the bright colour. The thick black line gives the illusion that the art work was created on a machine instead of being hand drawn.

Not only that, the drawings features very thin typeface that looks uneven, the opposite from geometrical.  Keywords like 'should' were written in bold to make the most importance information stand out. The most interesting point about the text that the content become more emotion when capital letters are used.



As for the famous crying girl image, which has many variations, the texture is the key element that makes this unique. The result of applying this feature makes the design look busy and little bit messy. 

This image benefits without having any text because her face already expresses concern and sadness.


 Jasper John

Unlike the other examples of Pop art, I consider this image to have the most depth. This painting is visually interesting because it presents the Ameircan flag in a more creative way. What makes this image captivating is the use of shadows on the edge of the top and middle flags. It gives it a dynamic and busy feel, thus making it captivating to the eyes. The use of shadows and good use of perspective causes the two smaller flags to appear as  wooden blocks rather than made of thin material.

As for the technique, information have suggested this has been painted with wax. This gives the image a rough feel and the ability to force the viewer to think that is is made of texture.

 Peter Blake


Peter Blake's style of pop art is slightly different than anybodyelse. Instead of having images that looked handrawn, this image featured are real pictures of all 4 members of the Beatles who were very popular in the 1960's. More colour effects are applied to give the image more of a dynamic feel. The use of a red tint forces people  to pay their attention to all 4 images. However, George, John and Paul stand out the most because the shadows on their face are darker, thus creating a larger contrast.

To make present the images clearly as possible, there are thick borders surrounding the images. 2 borders feature yellow whilst other 2 use blue to make the colour scheme look busy. This perfectly symbolizes the vibrant colour scheme used during the age of Pop art and  the hippy movement that started in the seventies.

Sources
http://fortyfoursunsets44.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/roy-lichtenstein-retrospecitve.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying_Girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Flags
http://ap.over-blog.org.over-blog.org/article-12010688.html