Pop Art, initiated in England in the mid 1950s, becomes an accepted style in the United States. New York artist Andy Warhol has his first gallery exhibition of Pop paintings in Los Angeles, where he shows the landmark series of 32 Campbell soup can paintings. This exhibition, New Paintings of Common Objects, was the first American museum exhibition of Pop Art, organized by the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now the Norton Simon Museum. This new art style valued the everyday life of popular and mass culture. As a result of the rise of Pop Art, printmaking became a basic part of the creative and economic activity of major European & American artists of the 1960s because print media fit the current styles: flat color, crisp edges, fluorescent inks, metallic papers, and an emphasis on reproduction. Senin, 12 Mei 2008
Pop Art History
Pop Art, initiated in England in the mid 1950s, becomes an accepted style in the United States. New York artist Andy Warhol has his first gallery exhibition of Pop paintings in Los Angeles, where he shows the landmark series of 32 Campbell soup can paintings. This exhibition, New Paintings of Common Objects, was the first American museum exhibition of Pop Art, organized by the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art (now the Norton Simon Museum. This new art style valued the everyday life of popular and mass culture. As a result of the rise of Pop Art, printmaking became a basic part of the creative and economic activity of major European & American artists of the 1960s because print media fit the current styles: flat color, crisp edges, fluorescent inks, metallic papers, and an emphasis on reproduction. 
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