Pop Art Tattoo Definition & Designs

Inside: Pop Art Tattoo Style Defined.

What is a Pop Art Tattoo?

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What is Pop Art?

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-to late-1950s. One of its aims is to use images of popular (as opposed to elitist) culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any culture, most often through the use of irony.

What Kind of Art

In the United States, pop style was a return to representational art (art that depicted the visual world in a recognizable way) and the use of hard edges and distinct forms after the painterly looseness of abstract expressionism.

Characteristics and Style

In 1957, Richard Hamilton described the style, writing: “Pop art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous and big business.” Often employing mechanical or commercial techniques such as silk-screening, Pop Art uses repetition and mass production to subvert ideas of artistic originality and value. Equally important, Pop Art’s chosen subject matter— common household objects, consumer products, and images from popular media— challenge the elitism of “high art”.

While British Pop Art, in which American pop culture is viewed from a distance, exhibits more academic tendencies, American Pop Art is characterized by its immediacy and aggression, with bold colors and hard edges emphasizing a sense of ironic detachment.