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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
1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King
1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King

1960s Pop Art Unique Cast Bronze Sculpture Americana Folk Art William King

By William King (b.1925)

Located in Surfside, FL

Mid-Century Modern wrought iron sculpture a person with oversize top, shorts, and carrying a hat, signed, artist's monogram and cipher, further mounted on a plaster base. 28" H. This a unique piece. It is interesting in that it speaks of a transition, leading into the later aluminum public pieces that kind of defined his work in the 70's. According to his estate this is most probably cast bronze. It might possibly be wrought iron.. William Dickey King was born in 1925 in Jacksonville, Florida and grew up in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami. As a boy, William King made model airplanes and helped his father and older brother build furniture and boats. “I was 19, 20, my mother gave me a hundred bucks, says, ʻGet out of this state and don’t come back until you’re 65; there is nothing here for you,’ ” Bill King recalled in a video interview for the Smithsonian museum. He came to New York, where he attended the Cooper Union and began selling his early sculptures even before he graduated. He later studied with the sculptor Milton Hebald and traveled to Italy on a Fulbright grant. He was a contemporary, at the Cooper Union, of Alex Katz and Lois Dodd, his first wife, and remained close in many ways to their common aesthetic grounding, shared also with younger sculptors such as Red Grooms and Marisol Escobar. The hallmark of King’s early work was radical experiment keeping company with social connection and hedonism. The mix of big, important, innovative ideas and immediate, sensory, in-the-moment experience was a kind of visual jazz. For this was not just the time of Franz Kline’s big open defiant brushstrokes and Jackson Pollock’s all-over mists of intricately drooling line, but of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. If we look at the works that King made in the early 1950s when he got back from his Fulbright to Italy we see free, experimental, open forms that take their cue from jazz as much as art in their fusion of virtuosity and cool.American sculptor King is most noted for his long-limbed figurative public art sculptures depicting people engaged in everyday activities such as reading or conversing. He created his busts and figures in a variety of materials, including clay, wood, metal, and textiles. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses — a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. Mr. King’s work often reflected the times, taking on fashions and occasional politics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work featuring African-American figures (including the activist Angela Davis, with hands cuffed behind her back) evoked his interest in civil rights. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer’s arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. His first solo exhibit took place in 1954 at the Alan Gallery in New York City. William Dicky King was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003, and in 2007 the International Sculpture Center honored him with the Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award. Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder and Elie Nadelman. The New York Times critic Holland Cotter once described Mr. King’s sculpture as “comical-tragical-maniacal,” and “like Giacometti conceived by John Cheever.” From an article by David Cohen "In a career that ran in tandem with the hegemony of formal abstraction in sculpture, Bill King inevitably struggled with the prejudice that sculpture full of humanity and humor can’t be quite as serious as sculpture devoid of them. But the tide has clearly turned in ways that ought to work in King’s favor, with an increasing number of sculptors, fêted internationally, who are producing work that looks remarkably close in spirit, if not quite as regal in sheer mastery of form, as his own. When art historians of the future connect the dots of modern sculpture then artists like Franz West, Stephan Balkenhol, Huma Bhabha...

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1960s Pop Art

Materials

Bronze

Painted Art Jacket: Picasso, Cezanne & Monet, hand signed by Robert Rauschenberg
Painted Art Jacket: Picasso, Cezanne & Monet, hand signed by Robert Rauschenberg

Painted Art Jacket: Picasso, Cezanne & Monet, hand signed by Robert Rauschenberg

By Robert Rauschenberg

Located in New York, NY

"The Art Jacket" is an entirely unique piece - a piece of wearable art - a hand painted jacket that Rauschenberg signed for the artist who made it - that makes a fantastic conversation piece that you simply won't find anywhere else in the world! Hand signed by BOTH Robert Rauschenberg and artist Rudy Ramirez Artists whose names appear on the jacket are: PICASSO, CEZANNE, MONET, GAUGIN - and of course Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg and Rudy Ramirez Art Jacket, hand painted by Raul "Rudy" Ramirez, hand signed by the artist and also (autographed on camera by Robert Rauschenberg), 1982 Cloth jacket with acrylic paint; hand signed in marker by Robert Rauschenberg 30 1/2 × 18 inches hand signed on the sleeve by Robert Rauschenberg; and hand signed in the front by Rudy. See photo of Rauschenberg signing Robert Rauschenberg signed...

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1980s Pop Art

Materials

Cotton, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Mixed Media, Textile

The Road to Death Valley, Mojave Desert, California - Landscape Color Photo
The Road to Death Valley, Mojave Desert, California - Landscape Color Photo

The Road to Death Valley, Mojave Desert, California - Landscape Color Photo

By Richard Heeps

Located in Cambridge, GB

'The Road to Death Valley', taken in the Majove Desert, California, features a clouded blue sky met my mountains on the horizon. This American landscape artwork is part of Richard He...

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Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Hell 1/2 Way Heaven
Hell 1/2 Way Heaven

Hell 1/2 Way Heaven

By Ed Ruscha

Located in New York, NY

Created by Ed Ruscha in 1988, Hell ½ Way Heaven is a color lithograph on Rives paper. Signed by the artist and numbered within the lithographic plate, the print is annotated 2/100 fr...

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20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Yellow Head, Colorful Avian Painting, 24 x 24
Yellow Head, Colorful Avian Painting, 24 x 24

Yellow Head, Colorful Avian Painting, 24 x 24

Located in Saint Louis, MO

Yellow Head. An excessively cropped variation on Jeff Kapfer's ongoing avian theme, this piece relies on a loud, simplistic contrast of primary colors to grab attention. The composit...

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Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

“Going Within” Lithograph
“Going Within” Lithograph

“Going Within” Lithograph

By Peter Max

Located in San Francisco, CA

American artist born in 1937, Peter Max is associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, specifically with the psychedelic and pop art movements. Max is known for his use...

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Late 20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Pencil, Lithograph

Original Batman Museo Dell'Automobile Torino vintage Italian poster
Original Batman Museo Dell'Automobile Torino vintage Italian poster

Original Batman Museo Dell'Automobile Torino vintage Italian poster

By (after) Andy Warhol

Located in Spokane, WA

Original poster: BATMAN - Museo Dell'Automobile Torino Artist: after Andy Warhol. Size 27.25" x 37" Printed: 1996 in Milan, Italy. Excellent condition. This pop art Italian poster in perfect condition, ready to frame. This is the original first printing of the Museo Dell'Automobile Torino (Italy) Batman, Andy Warhol. 'Viaggio in Italia'. This poster features the artwork for Warhol’s unauthorised 1964 film “Batman Dracula”. Excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity. Printed in Italy. The exhibition poster was for Nov. 30, 1996 - March 9, 1997. This BATMAN - Museo Dell'Automobile Torino is an Original Vintage Poster, not a reproduction. This poster is in excellent condition. This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. This is an Original Lithograph Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. Free Continental USA shipping included (saves $69 1st Dibs...

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1990s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum
Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum

Two Flags, Large (46" x 30") Limited Edition 5000 Lithograph for Whitney Museum

By Jasper Johns

Located in New York, NY

Jasper Johns 50th Anniversary of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, 1979 Original lithograph on heavy wove paper 46 × 30 inches Limited Edition of 5000 (unnumbered) Stamped with copyright mark and publisher's blindstamp Published by Stony Johns, Inc. and Gemini G.E.L. Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery Unframed This stunning, impressive, large vintage lithograph...

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1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Audrey's Flower - Portrait Artwork Mixed Media Original
Audrey's Flower - Portrait Artwork Mixed Media Original

Audrey's Flower - Portrait Artwork Mixed Media Original

By Marion Duschletta

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Swiss artist Marion Duschletta transforms luxury objects and urban landscapes from around the world into unique layered artworks. She combines an intriguing mixture of urban photogra...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Board, Acrylic

Year 2250 II, Peter Max

Year 2250 II, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Year 2250 II Year: 2003 Edition: 500/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on archival paper Size: 15.43 x 13.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription:...

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Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Up - Original Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Vibrant Spontaneous Art
Up - Original Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Vibrant Spontaneous Art

Up - Original Colorful Mixed Media Abstract Vibrant Spontaneous Art

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Board

"White Swimsuit White Sunglasses" Figurative Collage Composition on Panel Board
"White Swimsuit White Sunglasses" Figurative Collage Composition on Panel Board

"White Swimsuit White Sunglasses" Figurative Collage Composition on Panel Board

By Jon Davenport

Located in New York, NY

This piece depicts a colorful collage composition portrait of a Pin-up model from the 1950s, as Jon Davenport explores the process of deconstructing iconic imagery from the past and present. Davenport start’s out with photos of his paint-stained studio floor and collages in articles/advertising from an array of vintage magazines collected over the years; plus any other interesting stuff captured on his travels. He then transfers the images to a panel board, layering them on with gel medium, together with strokes, splashes, drips, and splats of paint. Once it's dry, another layer of gel medium is poured on to give it a melting effect. After it drys off again, another layer of paint is added to embellish a few areas and to accentuate or fade out certain aspects. And then, he finally adds a coat of polyurethane for protection and making the colors pop. This unique work is executed on a wood panel board and comes ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso, signed by the artist lower right. Art measures 36 x 24 inches From biology student to owning and running a creative agency in London to a career as a fine artist, life has taken Jon Davenport on a rewarding and unconventional journey. Despite his scientific beginnings, he’s always had a strong artistic streak weaving its way through his different career paths. Growing up in Ipswich, UK, Jon was always an avid drawer, and could often be found with a pencil and paper in hand. With the arrival of his first computer, he embraced the new frontier of digital art and had work published in one of those early computer magazines. His creative urges took a backseat to get a biology degree at Brunel University in London. It was afterward, in his first job working at the Archant newspaper group in Ipswich, that he quickly progressed from plate maker to becoming an integral member of the art studio. It was during this time that he taught himself photoshop, desktop publishing, and graphic & web design. After a few years, he set up a design agency, and eventually went full time and moved to London. This proved to be a successful move, working for a number of clients such as Nike and Virgin, and gaining praise from the likes of Richard Branson and Tony Blair. It wasn’t until Jon moved to the USA to marry his wife, Atlanta artist Christy Kinard...

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2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Polyurethane

Just One More - Original Framed Figurative Woman Portrait Pop Art Painting
Just One More - Original Framed Figurative Woman Portrait Pop Art Painting

Just One More - Original Framed Figurative Woman Portrait Pop Art Painting

By Nelson De La Nuez

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Nelson De La Nuez is one of the most sought-after contemporary Pop artists practicing today. His striking, vivid mixed media artwork borrows motifs and messages from the language of ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Lumen
Lumen

Lumen

By Mark Knoerzer

Located in Boston, MA

Artist Mark Knoerzer is best known for his abstract paintings, light installations and hand painted wooden sculptures. Using color and extensive layering to create geometric images and emergent symbols, Knoerzer has developed a unique visual language that, while often highly formal and even symmetrical, nevertheless reflects an intense commitment to beauty and the sheer pleasure of seeing. Knoerzer’s 2019 solo show Half-Life was reviewed by Cate McQuaid in The Boston Globe. His work has also appeared in documentaries as diverse as Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, which was selected for the Tribeca Film...

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2010s Pop Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Wood, Oil, Acrylic

Under a Harvest Moon, Original Painting
Under a Harvest Moon, Original Painting

Under a Harvest Moon, Original Painting

By John Jaster

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A bright harvest moon illuminates the edges of gray and blue clouds, casting its glow over a small house with an orange door. Birch trees in autumn colors sta...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

Beach Ball Buoyancy - Abstract Colorful Figurative Feminine Pop Art by Gary John
Beach Ball Buoyancy - Abstract Colorful Figurative Feminine Pop Art by Gary John

Beach Ball Buoyancy - Abstract Colorful Figurative Feminine 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Deck
Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Deck

Takashi Murakami Flowers Skateboard Deck

By Takashi Murakami

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Murakami Flowers Skate Deck A vibrant piece of Takashi Murakami wall art produced as a limited series in conjunction with the 2017 Murakami exhibit: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, MC...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, ~67% OFF LIST PRICE)
Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, ~67% OFF LIST PRICE)

Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, ~67% OFF LIST PRICE)

By James Rizzi

Located in Kansas City, MO

James Rizzi Four Seasons (Illustrated Book, Pop Art, 3D Art, Urban Art, New York Artist, Contemporary Art) Handsigned and numbered illustrated book Year: 1988 Size: 12×11.6×0.6in Edition: 965 Signed, numbered by hand Publisher: John Szoke Graphics, Inc. - NYC, USA Printed by: Arnoldo Mondadori Editori, Italy COA provided Ref.: 924802-1932 *the "Four Seasons: Spring" print is missing and not included Tags: James Rizzi, Pop art, 3D art, Urban art, New York artist, Contemporary art, Colorful art, Whimsical art, Cityscape art, Silkscreen prints, 20th-century artist, Three-dimensional paintings, Graphic art, American artist, Happy Rizzi House, 3D constructions, Animated art, Street art, Manhattan art, Graphic artist, International artist, Iconic pop artist, Playful art, Pop culture art, Childlike art...

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1980s Pop Art

Materials

Paper

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.