July 09, 2019

Top 5 most famous Pop Art Artists

List of famous Pop art artists, with images, bios, and information about their notable works. You might also want to check out Andy Warhol's famous paintings and the greatest works of Roy Lichtenstein. All the greatest artists associated with the Pop art movement are included here.

Pop art, which emerged in the '50s and rose in popularity throughout the '60s, sought to challenge the idea of fine art. Pop artists would take images and ideas that were a part of the culture (such as advertisements and movie stars) and place it in a context. Pop art paintings would often be humorous, and the irony was a key element of the style. This list features artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and more!

Almost every well-known or influential figure in this movement is listed below. You can use the artists in this factual list to create a new one, just like this one, to start your own.

1rst Top Famous POP-ARTIST - ANDY WARHOL

WHO IS ANDY WARHOL?

Andy Warhol the Pop-Artist was Born on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960s Pop art movements. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.

ANDY WARHOL POP ART

When he graduated from college with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1949, Warhol moved to New York City to pursue a career as a commercial artist. It was also at this time that he dropped the “a” at the end of his last name to become Andy Warhol. He landed a job with Glamour magazine in September, and went on to become one of the most successful commercial artists of the 1950s. He won frequent awards for his uniquely whimsical style, using his own blotted line technique and rubber stamps to create his drawings.

In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of “pop art” — paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell’s soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time.

British artist Richard Hamilton described pop art as “popular, transient, expendable, low cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business.” As Warhol himself put it, “Once you ‘got’ pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought pop, you could never see America the same way again.”

Warhol’s other famous pop paintings depicted Coca-cola bottles, vacuum cleaners and hamburgers.

PORTRAITS

He also painted celebrity portraits in vivid and garish colors; his most famous subjects include Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Mick Jaggerand Mao Zedong. As these portraits gained fame and notoriety, Warhol began to receive hundreds of commissions for portraits from socialites and celebrities. His portrait “Eight Elvises” eventually resold for $100 million in 2008, making it one of the most valuable paintings in world history.

THE FACTORY

In 1964, Andy Warhol opened his own art studio, a large silver-painted warehouse known simply as “The Factory.” The Factory quickly became one of New York City’s premier cultural hotspots, a scene of lavish parties attended by the city’s wealthiest socialites and celebrities, including musician Lou Reed, who paid tribute to the hustlers and transvestites he’d met at The Factory with his hit song “Walk on the Wild Side” — the verses of which contain descriptions of individuals who were fixtures at the legendary studio/warehouse in the ’60s, including Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, “Little Joe” Dallesandro, “Sugar Plum Fairy” Joe Campbell and Jackie Curtis. (Warhol was a friend of Reed’s and managed Reed’s band, the Velvet Underground.)Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol, who clearly relished his celebrity, became a fixture at infamous New York City nightclubs like Studio 54 and Max’s Kansas City. Commenting on celebrity fixation — his own and that of the public at large — Warhol observed, “more than anything people just want stars.” He also branched out in new directions, publishing his first book, Andy Warhol’s Index, in 1967.

In 1968, however, Warhol’s thriving career almost ended. He was shot by Valerie Solanas, an aspiring writer and radical feminist, on June 3rd. Warhol was seriously wounded in this attack. Solanas had appeared in one of Warhol’s films and was reportedly upset with him over his refusal to use a script she had written. After the shooting, Solanas was arrested and later pleaded guilty to the crime. Warhol spent weeks in a New York hospital recovering from his injuries and underwent several subsequent surgeries. As a result of the injuries he sustained, he had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life.

WARHOL BOOKS AND FILMS

In the 1970s, Warhol continued to explore other forms of media. He published such books as The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) and Exposures. Warhol also experimented extensively with video art, producing more than 60 films during his career. Some of his most famous films include Sleep, which depicts poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours, and Eat, which shows a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.

Warhol also worked in sculpture and photography, and in the 1980s, he moved into television, hosting Andy Warhol’s TV and Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes on MTV.

ANDY WARHOL QUOTES

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Art is what you can get away with.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I am a deeply superficial person.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody. Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about? Andy Warhol: Yes, it’s liking things.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

2nd Top Famous POP-ARTIST - WAYNE THIEBAUD

Wayne Thiebaud is an American painter best known for his still lifes of edible treats and everyday objects in his singular illustrative style. His most popular subject matter includes colorful cakes, slices of pie, candy pieces, and the winding streets of San Francisco. Similarly to Edward Hopper, Thiebaud's paintings capture a uniquely American sensibility, and critics have compared his penchant for still life to painters

WAYNE THIEBAUD ARTWORKS

like Chardin and Giorgio Morandi.“A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording,” he reflected. “This results in a kind of abstraction, and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.” Born Morton Wayne Thiebaud on November 15, 1920 in Mesa, AZ, the painter moved to California soon after, where he became interested in stage design and lighting. He began his career as a commercial artist, but switched to fine art after during his education and earned an MFA from what is now the California State University at Sacramento.

A trip to New York during the 1950s introduced him to Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, and others in the city’s art scene at the time. Although he continued to show on the East Coast, Thiebaud has remained in the Bay Area, and his work can be found in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994.

WAYNE THIEBAUD TIMELINE WORKS

1961 Pies, Pies, Pies
1962 Around the Cake
1962 Bakery Counter
1962 Confections
1962 Candy Machine
1963 Cakes
1963 Girl with Ice Cream Cone
1964 Three Strawberry Shakes
1964 Eight Lipsticks
1964 Man Sitting – Back View
1964 Lemon Cake
1966 Powder With Puff
1968 Coloma Ridge
1970 Seven Suckers
1971 Four Cupcakes
1975 Shoe Rows
1976 Potrero Hill
1977 24th Street Intersection
1981 Hill Street (Day City)
1987 Two Paint Cans
1991 The Three Cows
1992 Thirteen Books
1993 Apartment View
1993 Coastline (California Arts Council specialty license plate)^[14]^[15]
1996 Farm Channel
1999 Reservoir
2000 Clown Cones
2002 Jolly Cones (Ice Cream Cones)
2008 Three Ice cream Cones
2010 The Google 12th Birthday Cake
2010 Tulip Sundaes

WAYNE THIEBAUD COLLECTIONS

Thiebaud’s works are also in permanent collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Phoenix Art Museum.^[Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; and many other institutions.

WAYNE THIEBAUD QUOTES

“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
Wayne Thiebaud

“I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.”
Wayne Thiebaud

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism… (Wayne Thiebaud)

If I don’t have anything better to do that day, I’ll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. (Wayne Thiebaud)

3rd Top Famous POP-ARTIST - ROY LICHTENSTEIN

ROY LICHTENSTEIN BIO

Roy Fox Lichtenstein ( October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the premise of pop art through parody. Inspired by the comic strip, Lichtenstein produced precise compositions that documented while they parodied, often in a tongue-in-cheek manner. His work was influenced by popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as “not ‘American’ painting but actually industrial painting”. His paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City.

Whaam! and Drowning Girl are generally regarded as Lichtenstein’s most famous works, with Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too…But… arguably third. Drowning Girl, Whaam! and Look Mickey are regarded as his most influential works. His most expensive piece is Masterpiece, which was sold for $165 million in January 2017.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN FOUNDATION

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation announces the launch of collaborations with the Whitney Museum of American Art and with the Archives of American Art.

By the wishes of the artist and his family, the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation was chartered as a Private Operating Foundation in 1998, primarily to facilitate public access to the work of Roy Lichtenstein and the art and artists of his time; to create a catalogue raisonné of all known Lichtenstein works; and to share information which could assist the development and education of the next generations of curators, critics and scholars concerning the artist Roy Lichtenstein.

During the last fifteen years we have expanded our activities to include: the rescue, organization and donation of the enormous and historically consequential Shunk-Kender and Harry Shunk Photography Collections to a consortium of five international museums/research centers; consistent support of the Aspen Institute National Study of Artist-Endowed Foundations; providing expertise to numerous Lichtenstein exhibitions; supporting numerous outreach and research topics, including artists’ materials and postwar art and art history; building a Study Collection of early Lichtenstein and later generative sketches, models, maquettes and artifacts; functioning as an image and information database for a broad range of art, art history and oral histories; and working with museums to acquire notable Lichtenstein artworks from our collections and the collections of others.

The Foundation began operation in 1999 in the artist’s West Greenwich Village studio. Its primary offices are currently located in a townhouse contiguous to the studio. These offices house the research library, administration, rights and reproductions, and catalogue raisonné work spaces.

ROY LICHTENSTEIN AWARDS

1995 National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C.

1995 Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation, Kyoto, Japan.

1993 Amici de Barcelona, from Mayor Pasqual Maragall, L’Alcalde de Barcelona, Spain.

1992 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

1991 Creative Arts Award in Painting, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

1989 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy. Artist in Residence.

1979 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.

1977 Skowhegan Medal for Painting, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine.

Honorary Doctorates in Fine Art:

1996 The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

1993 Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom.

1990 The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers.

1989 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

1988 The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

1977 California Institute of Fine Arts, Valencia, California.

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN UN-LOCATED WORKS

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation’s website, and its related subsite, www.imageduplicator.com, contain the works that are known to the Foundation and which the Foundation believes are works by Roy Lichtenstein. Some of them remain unlocated.

The Foundation’s catalogue raisonné team has set as its scholarly task the physical examination of every work by the artist. Hence, we would greatly appreciate being able to find any work listed in this display. Owners are kindly asked to download a PDF of the catalogue raisonné collector’s form and/or e-mail us at info@lichtensteinfoundation.org. All submissions are held in the strictest confidence.

PAINTINGS

Still Life with Cup, Plate and Bottle

Still Life with Cup, Plate and Bottle
c. 1942–1943
Oil on canvas

4rth Top Famous POP-ARTIST - JASPER JOHNS

Jasper Johns I Pop art I Painting I Printmaking

JASPER JOHNS BIO

Jasper Johns is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker whose work is associated with abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, and pop art. He is well known for his depictions of the American flag and other US-related topics

Born: May 15, 1930 (age 89 years), Augusta, Georgia, United StatesPeriods: Abstract expressionism, Neo-Dada, Modern art, Pop artKnown for: Painting, printmaking

Influenced by: Marcel Duchamp, Hart Crane, Tatyana Grosman

Education: Sumter High School, University of South Carolina, Parsons School of Design

JASPER JOHNS POP ART

Jasper Johns took creating pop art from everyday images to another level, perhaps showing outstanding creativity in using maps, flags and other world iconic imagery and placing them in an artistic context.

Famed for his brushwork and painterly touch, the modern imagery hid a talented artist in the classical sense who chose Abstracr expressionism as is artistic form of choice.

Recently is famous American Flag sold for more than $28 million . The flags and images he created between 1954 and 1959 heralded the start of the pop art movement.

Good friends with all the major pop artists of the era, he quickly became one of the most famous and wealthiest living artists in the world.

Jasper Johns is said to dance along the pop art line between art and reality, with critics praising the way in which the relationship is deliciously blurred. However critics tend to point to the benal content of the art he produced being as uninteresting as the everyday object. Whatever you think, you can not ask for more iconic imagery than Jasper Johns.

In 1990 Johns was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.

5th Top Famous POP-ARTIST - DAVID HOCKNEY

David Hockney, OM, CH, RA is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

HOCKNEY PERSONAL LIFE

Hockney is gay, and has explored the nature of gay love in his portraiture. Sometimes, as in We Two Boys Together Clinging (1961), named after a poem by Walt Whitman, the works refer to his love for men. In 1963, he painted two men together in the painting Domestic Scene, Los Angeles, one showering while the other washes his back. In summer 1966, while teaching at UCLA he met Peter Schlesinger, an art student who posed for paintings and drawings, and with whom he became romantically involved.

On the morning of 18 March 2013, Hockney’s 23-year-old assistant, Dominic Elliott, died as a result of drinking drain cleaner at Hockney’s Bridlington studio; he had also earlier drunk alcohol and taken cocaine, ecstasy and temazepam. Elliott was a first- and second-team player for Bridlington Rugby Club. It was reported that Hockney’s partner drove Elliott to ScarboroughGeneral Hospital where he later died. The inquest returned a verdict of death by misadventure and Hockney was never implicated.^[83]^[84]^[85] In November 2015 Hockney sold his house in Bridlington, a five-bedroomed former guest house, for £625,000, cutting all his remaining ties with the town.^[86]^[87]

He holds a California Medical Marijuana Verification Card, which enables him to buy cannabis for medical purposes. He has used hearing aids since 1979, but realised he was going deaf long before that. He keeps fit by spending half an hour in the swimming pool each morning, and can stand for six hours at the easel.

DAVID HOCKNEY QUOTES

Anything simple always interests me.
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
Photographs aren’t accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
I’m a very early riser, and I don’t like to miss that beautiful early morning light.
Like people, trees are all individuals.
There are enough no smoking places now.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

WHAT IS DAVID HOCKNEY FAMOUS FOR?

David Hockney is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. If you were to Google, famous British painters, there’s a good chance that Hockney’s name will appear. Born in Bradford in 1937, Hockney was one of the big artists involved in the pop art movement in the 1960s. Pop art was a style of art that was bright, full of colour. It was made by lots of young artists who felt that the art they saw in galleries was a little bit boring. To find out more about pop art. It’s likely that you’ll learn about pop art in school and then you can mention Hockney and impress all your friends and teachers.

WHAT DOES HE LIKE TO PAINT?

Hockney lives in London, but owns two other homes in California. You can imagine then that a lot of his work varies, because California and the UK are very different places. California is usually always sunny, where as in England the weather changes all the time. So, when painting in England, Hockney likes to paint the seasons. In Going Up Garrowby Hill, Hockney has painted a canvas of the landscape in Yorkshire, where he was brought up. There are lots of different colours. Why do you think this?

When in California, his paintings are colourful and bold. In A Bigger Splash, Hockney paints a swimming pool. It looks like someone has just jumped into the water. The blue is so bright that you want to get on the diving board and jump in too. And look at how tall those palm trees are! You won’t find palm trees like that in England.

DOES HE LIKE PAINTING PEOPLE?

Yes! Lots of Hockney’s work involves painting people he loves. This is usually pairs of people. My Parents is a painting of his mum and dad and is probably one of his most famous. Look at how he illustrates their personalities. His mother sits upright and attentive, while his father is absorbed in his paper and seems a little bit on the edge of his seat. It’s like Hockney has captured how he feels about his parents in a painting that will last forever.

Hockney wants to capture his relationships with the people he knew. Many of his paintings are of men that he loved and spent time with. Like the painting of his parents, they show a tenderness towards the people who really mattered for Hockney. This includes his friends and other couples Hockney admired. In George Lawson and Wayne Sleep, Hockney shows Wayne, a dancer, and his partner George. The way Wayne, who is framed in the doorway, gazes at George shows a look of love that Hockney clearly felt was important to share.

SO, WHERE IS HOCKNEY TODAY?

Hockney is still painting and trying lots of new experiments with art. Some of his most recent work includes painting on iPads. The great thing about iPads is that once the work has been complete, you can go back and see how the painting was created. It’s like rewinding time. Isn’t that incredible?

How do you feel about Hockney’s work? Why not try picking up a paintbrush or iPad and start painting like Hockney. Start with bold colours and paint your local swimming pool and your local park. Or, if you like painting people, maybe start by painting your family. Try and show how you feel about them in your painting.

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