Pop art is
an art movement that emerged in Britain
and the United States
in the mid-1950’s. This unique and
striking style was first seen in commercial industries before making its move
into the residential sector.
Pop art abbreviation
for “popular art”, was a response to the cerebral and abstract movements that
had come before it like abstract expressionism.
Presenting a challenge to traditions of fine art, ‘Pop Art’ included
imagery from popular culture such as advertisements and the news.
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are just two of many ‘Pop
art’ designers whose prints are commonly used within the Interior design
industry. Materials are visually removed
from its known context, isolated, and combined with unrelated images. This is
seen in Andy Warhol’s ‘Campbell’s
Soup’, the iconic portrait of Marilyn Monroe and Lichtenstein’s painting;
‘Interior with water lilies’. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the
art itself, but to the attitudes that led to it.
Artwork is and always will be an essential component to any
stylish interior, and Pop Art is usually seen in modern contemporary homes and
interiors as a feature or main focal point to a room. Because of its bright and clashing colour
pallet and bold imagery, one piece of artwork is usually all you need to spruce
up a room and create an electric aesthetic centre piece, although some will go
to the extreme and design the entire room as if you were walking into a comic
book. Pop art will always bring energy
and excitement into a space whatever or however you decide to do it.
You can
still see homes today sporting this popular fashion trend through paintings, prints and
futuristic furniture. Out of all the defining
style movements, surely none is more fun than the ‘Pop’ movement.
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