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Pop Art

POP ART STYLE

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

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Style: Pop Art
Protect our Children I, Peter Max
Protect our Children I, Peter Max

Protect our Children I, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Protect our Children I Year: 2002 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 5 x 6.25 inches Condition: Excellent I...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jeff Koons - Flower Drawing inscribed signed twice, in Whitney Museum monograph
Jeff Koons - Flower Drawing inscribed signed twice, in Whitney Museum monograph

Jeff Koons - Flower Drawing inscribed signed twice, in Whitney Museum monograph

By Jeff Koons

Located in New York, NY

Jeff Koons Original Flower Drawing (signed twice), 2016 Original, hand signed drawing inscribed to Nadine, done with silver sharpie, and held in hardback monograph with dust jacket, ...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset

Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman with Hat' 1983
Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman with Hat' 1983

Andy Warhol 'Portrait of Ingrid Bergman with Hat' 1983

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Portrait of Ingrid Bergman from "Casablanca" rendered in Warhol's signature style published by Galerie Borjeson. Known for his bold, repetitive portrait style, Warhol transformed Ber...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

Coco Chanel, Paris, Horst P. Horst
Coco Chanel, Paris, Horst P. Horst

Coco Chanel, Paris, Horst P. Horst

By Horst P. Horst

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: ​Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Title: Coco Chanel, Paris, 1937 Year: 1937, printed later by the photographer Medium: Silver Gelatin Print Size: 14 x 11 inches Condition: Excelle...

Category

1930s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rare Andy Warhol Record Cover Art set of 2
Rare Andy Warhol Record Cover Art set of 2

Rare Andy Warhol Record Cover Art set of 2

By Andy Warhol

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Rare 1960s Andy Warhol Record Art: set of 2 works: This set includes two original vintage pressings: 'This Is John Wallowitch' by John Wallowitch and 'The Academy In Peril' by John ...

Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

KAWS Holiday Taipei (KAWS Black Companion)
KAWS Holiday Taipei (KAWS Black Companion)

KAWS Holiday Taipei (KAWS Black Companion)

By KAWS

Located in NEW YORK, NY

KAWS Black Holiday Companion (KAWS Taipei) This figurative vinyl sculpture features KAWS' signature character COMPANION in a resting seated position. Published by All Rights Reserve...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Liquor Store in Tarzana - Abstract Colorful City Mixed Media Artwork on Paper
Liquor Store in Tarzana - Abstract Colorful City Mixed Media Artwork on Paper

Liquor Store in Tarzana - Abstract Colorful City Mixed Media Artwork on Paper

By Fabio Coruzzi

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Gel Pen, Graphite

1970 Silencio, Direccion Unica, One Way Spanish Political Etching Pop Art Print
1970 Silencio, Direccion Unica, One Way Spanish Political Etching Pop Art Print

1970 Silencio, Direccion Unica, One Way Spanish Political Etching Pop Art Print

By Juan Genoves

Located in Surfside, FL

Juan Genovés Candel (Spanish, 1930-) Painter, illustrator, and graphic printmaker engraver. He painted 'El abrazo' ('the embrace'), which became an emblematic poster during the Spanish political transition. He was born in Valencia in 1930. The son of Juan Genovés Cubells, an artisan whose family was close to the labor movement. His mother Maria Candel Muñoz came from a family of practicing Catholics. In 1946 Genovés studied at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de San Carlos in Valencia and then settled in Madrid. He set up the 'Los Siete' group together with other artists in 1949, and the following year he travelled to Madrid, where he was influenced by the works by Fra Angélico and Hieronymus Bosch in the Prado Museum. In 1957 he had his first solo exhibitions in the gallery Alfil, Madrid and in the Museo d'Arte Moderna, Havana. He is considered the most important representative of modern Spanish painting. His images, executed in a politically engaged, critical realism...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

KAWS Take Figure, Pink BFF Companion, Resin and Vinyl Paint, 2010+
KAWS Take Figure, Pink BFF Companion, Resin and Vinyl Paint, 2010+

KAWS Take Figure, Pink BFF Companion, Resin and Vinyl Paint, 2010+

By KAWS

Located in Dallas, TX

Several months after releasing the KAWS Share Figure in February, the artist released his long anticipated KAWS Take Figure. The figure, which features a blue BFF holding a brown Com...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Nirvana - In Utero (Record Label, Ticket Stubs, Pop Art, Grammy)
Nirvana - In Utero (Record Label, Ticket Stubs, Pop Art, Grammy)

Nirvana - In Utero (Record Label, Ticket Stubs, Pop Art, Grammy)

By Kerry Smith

Located in Kansas City, MO

Kerry Smith Nirvana - In Utero Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2022 Size: 12x12in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1630 *Black frame with a mirror-gloss finish av...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Board

PRIDE (framed)
PRIDE (framed)

PRIDE (framed)

By Karyn Mannix

Located in East Hampton, NY

As Seen at Art on Paper Art Fair 2024 at The Mannix Project East Hampton NY hard to photograph image PRIDE (comes framed in white frame) Art size is 24x18 framed 26x20 LBGTQ theme G...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Photographic Paper

Queen Elizabeth II, Mixed Media on Canvas

Queen Elizabeth II, Mixed Media on Canvas

By Dane Shue

Located in Yardley, PA

Pop Art Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II of England. Painting is on gallery style canvas. Signature at the back. Original Created: 2022 Subjects: Pop Culture/Celebrity Materials: ...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Morning View II

Morning View II

By Jeni Stallings

Located in Atlanta, GA

"Jeni Stallings creates work that often draws from her dreams and personal experiences. She tends to render those moments in a muted, femininity-infused surrealism far from the hard-...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Wax, Oil, Wood Panel

LAURENT MAILLART - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise
LAURENT MAILLART - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise

LAURENT MAILLART - Aston Vantage, Chromed Turquoise

Located in PARIS, FR

Edition: limited edition 11/24 Information: Laurent combines a robust background in mechanical engineering with a profound passion for cars and arts. From a young age, Laurent spen...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Steel

Andy Warhol Record Cover Art 1982
Andy Warhol Record Cover Art 1982

Andy Warhol Record Cover Art 1982

By Andy Warhol

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Andy Warhol Record Art 1982: Querelle vinyl album featuring Original Cover Art by Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonne: Paul Marechal: Andy Warhol, The Complete Commissioned Record Covers...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

1950 Flamingo Style - Original Quirky Pink Bird Mixed Media Pop Art by Gary John
1950 Flamingo Style - Original Quirky Pink Bird Mixed Media Pop Art by Gary John

1950 Flamingo Style - Original Quirky Pink Bird Mixed Media Pop Art by Gary John

By Gary John

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic, Illustration Board, Mixed Media

Madcap Muse - Abstract Colorful Mixed Media Contemporary Painting
Madcap Muse - Abstract Colorful Mixed Media Contemporary Painting

Madcap Muse - Abstract Colorful Mixed Media Contemporary Painting

By Jonas Fisch

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Swedish artist Jonas Fisch’s imagery is vibrantly buzzing with colorful commentary on society - past and present - morphed into figures, words, and shapes. His heavily layered canvas...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

After Alex Katz - Sarah-American Dance Festival - 2011 Serigraph
After Alex Katz - Sarah-American Dance Festival - 2011 Serigraph

After Alex Katz - Sarah-American Dance Festival - 2011 Serigraph

By Alex Katz

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Sku: CB1512 Artist: Alex Katz Title: Sarah-American Dance Festival Year: 2011 Signed: No Medium: Serigraph Paper Size: 48 x 34 inches ( 121.92 x 86.36 cm ) Image Size: 48 x 34 inches...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Alfred E. Donuts", Mad Magazine Icon photographic arrangement of donuts 38x31"
"Alfred E. Donuts", Mad Magazine Icon photographic arrangement of donuts 38x31"

"Alfred E. Donuts", Mad Magazine Icon photographic arrangement of donuts 38x31"

By Candice CMC

Located in Southampton, NY

You have read about the extraordinary donut portraits by Candice CMC on social media world-wide and we are excited and proud to represent her work. "Alfred E. Donuts" by Candice CMC was actually featured in Mad Magazine...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper

Ex Voto
Ex Voto

Ex Voto

By Jim Dine

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Jim Dine (b. 1935) was one of the key artists that shaped American Pop art in the 1960s. Like Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Dine appropriated quintessential American images in his wo...

Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Diptych VII, Mixed Media Framed Collage Portrait
Diptych VII, Mixed Media Framed Collage Portrait

Diptych VII, Mixed Media Framed Collage Portrait

By Roberto Fonfria

Located in Miami Beach, FL

Fonfria's work explores human behavior and social rules with a critical eye and humor, touching on personal themes such as dreams, fears, and memories. The images come from old magaz...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Cotton, Paper, Mixed Media, Graphite

Apocalypse 2
Apocalypse 2

Apocalypse 2

By Keith Haring

Located in Hollywood, FL

Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 2 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: 22 of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Hand-signed by artist, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil. Published by George Mulder Fine Arts, New York. Catalog Raisonne: Littmann, 98. Text: Willliam S. Burroughs Page 2 The planet is pulling loose from its moorings, careening into space, spilling cities and mountains and seas into the Void, spinning faster and faster as days and nights flash by like subway stations. Iron penis chimneys ejaculate blue sparks in a reek of ozone, tunnels crunch down teeth of concrete and steel, flattening cars like beer cans...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Portrait of Marylin Monroe, American Pop Artist
Portrait of Marylin Monroe, American Pop Artist

Portrait of Marylin Monroe, American Pop Artist

Located in Grand Rapids, MI

James Francis Gill (American, Born 1934) Signed: Gill 7 (Lower, Right) " Marilyn Pose 3 ", 2007 (Titled on Canvas Verso) (Marilyn Monroe) Acrylic over Print on Canvas Housed in...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pop Art art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Pop art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, red, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Jack Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Peter Max, and Heidler & Heeps. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Pop Art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available.