Like many other modern-day pop artists, Julian Opie's signature style is also rooted in the Neo-Pop movement. In her Faceless series, she gathers together the cultural and historical icons who’ve inspired her – artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers and fashion legends – depicting each in Warhol-esque pop-art portraits. Like Andy Warhol, Dávez creates work that meditates on the concept of fame. Today, celebrities are viewed as a consumer product.
In her acrylic on canvas works, facial features are left blank – the resulting portraits conjuring an air of playfulness by inviting the viewer to a game of ‘Guess Who?’. Renowned for her vibrant use of acrylic paint and block colour style, Spanish artist Coco Dávez interweaves pop art and neorealism. Jeff Koons, Balloon Dog - Yellow, 27 x 27 x 13 cm Jeff Koons took inspiration from items not typically considered fine art, appropriating icons of pop culture like Michael Jackson, as well as mass-produced objects like vacuum cleaners, to push the boundaries of high art. Koons’ most famous works are his Balloon Dogs: shiny sculptures resembling the twisted balloon animals made by children’s entertainers. In the 1980s and ‘90s, mass media-obsessed artists such as Jeff Koons became central figures in a movement dubbed, “Neo-Pop” – a genre which captured the intentional kitsch and interest in commercialism that characterised pop art in the ‘60s. Here, we share a selection of leading names whose work captures the colourful and kitsch aesthetic of pop art, through bold paintings, immersive installations, and larger-than-life sculptures.Īndy Warhol, C ampbells Soup II Vegeterian Vegetable, 84 x 64 cm For contemporary artists, the genre continues to thrive as a source of inspiration.
The appetite for pop art isn’t going anywhere, Tate is celebrating its 20 th anniversary this year with a major Andy Warhol exhibition and The National Portrait Gallery recently hosted a David Hockney exhibition. Inspired by mass culture, everyday objects, and the cult of celebrity, their works blurred the lines between high-art and low-culture. However it wouldn’t be defined as a true movement until it reached New York in the 60s, with artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Claes Oldenburg defining what would become an international phenomenon. Pop art made its colourful debut in the mid-1950s, pioneered by progressive artists such as Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton. The contemporary artists keeping the movement alive today
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