Posters - Art of the 20th Century

s are limited to black, yellow and red. Also one can notice the elements of photography and a slight influence if architecture, some work would show more evidence of the link between Constructivism and architecture. I like the expression in the face in the background; it clings it the mind. The Stenberg brothers did this poster; it advertises a 1929 movie called "Fragment of an Empire."
             Pop Art used the imagery and techniques of consumerism and popular culture, hence it name "pop" art. It was basically a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, the pop artist thinking that this art form was too pretentious and over-intense. Pop Art brought art back to the material realities of everyday life. It incorporated object that are in our daily life or things that we would see or use such as Campbell soup cans, comic strips or advertisements emerging in the late 1950's in England but realized its fullest potential in New York in the 1960's. In the US it was linked to the wealth and prosperity of the post-World War II era, in Britain, it wasn't as glamorous and had a more nostalgic feel to it. But one cannot deny the roots of this art form, and a person perhaps said to be the artist responsible for the first work considered being pop would be Englishman Richard Hamilton. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were some of the first Pop artists in America and used popular imagery such as the American flag and beer cans in their paintings, prints, and col
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