Pop Art: Drowning Girl And Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns

The art movement of pop art began in the middle of the 1950s. It started in Britain and by the end of the 1950s came to the United States. Pop art challenges the fine art tradition by including the imagery of popular culture advertisements and news. The Pop arts’ concept refers to the attitudes behind the art rather than the art itself. Pop art is usually seen in advertising, for example, on labeling and logos. Pop art's origins developed differently in North America than in Great Britain. Artists create personal symbolisms of abstract expressions by using mundane reality, irony, impersonalism, and parody. Examples of artists that were in the movement of pop art were Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein (Pop Art). Andy Warhol was one of the many artists that was in the Pop Art movement. Warhol was also involved in other movements like the Video Art movement and the Postmodern Art movement. Andy was was known for his Pop Art but was also involved in other creative works, including a filmmaker, painter and more. Andy was born in Pittsburg,

Andy Warhol’s art piece of the two was the Twenty-Five Colored Marilyns. The date of this piece was 1962 and was 82 x 66 ¼ inches. This piece was created weeks before Marilyn Monroe’s suicide. The picture used of Marilyn was a reproduction of the publicity photograph. He gives us twenty-five of her using the silkscreen process. Her face was given different clarity and degrees by uneven inking, also a homemade quality is given by a tilting of the grid. It is possible that he used this painting to show his obsession over famous people in this painting. The Drowning Girl was created by Roy Lichtenstein. The Drowning Girl was created in the year 1963. The painting is a cropping of images into a new one, the source image of this painting is a boyfriend standing over the girlfriend in a