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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
All of Your Sweet Sweet Talk
All of Your Sweet Sweet Talk

All of Your Sweet Sweet Talk

By FENX

Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län

Signed, titled and dated on the back. Acquired directly from the artist. Free shipment worldwide Loïc Le Floch, also known as Fenx, is a visual artist born in the mid-1970s and bas...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Flag, Peter Max
Flag, Peter Max

Peter MaxFlag, Peter Max, 1997

$3,800Sale Price|20% Off

Flag, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Flag Year: 1997 Medium: Acrylic, lithograph on Arches paper Size: 12 x 14 inches Inscription: Hand signed Notes: Published, printed by Via Max, New Yo...

Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Lithograph

POSE Limited Edition Spray Paint Can (POSE street artist)
POSE Limited Edition Spray Paint Can (POSE street artist)

POSE Limited Edition Spray Paint Can (POSE street artist)

By POSE

Located in NEW YORK, NY

POSE spray paint can 2021: Limited Edition POSE spray paint can published circa 2021. A unique street art / graffiti collectible that makes for a fantastic home display piece. Med...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Metal

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)
Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)

Untitled (from ROBOTNICS Series)

By Christian Rothmann

Located in Kansas City, MO

Christian Rothmann ROBOTNICS Series C-Print 2019 Edition S (Edition of 10) 12 x 8.3 inches (30.5 x 21 cm) Signed, dated and numbered verso Other Edition Sizes available: - Edition ...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

C Print

Blue Suds
Blue Suds

Blue Suds

By Ed Ruscha

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is known internationally for his blending of conceptual approaches with pop sensibilities. Today he is firmly established as a leading figure in American 20th cen...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Soup Can Bag
Soup Can Bag

Soup Can Bag

By Andy Warhol

Located in Toronto, Ontario

In 1962 Andy Warhol debuted his (soon to be infamous) Soup Can paintings as the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles. While initially it was a commercial flop, in a short period of time the ...

Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Paul McCartney, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Paul McCartney, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Paul McCartney, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

By Iryna Kastsova

Located in Yardley, PA

Sir James Paul McCartney is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist, writer and producer. One of the founders of The Beatles, 16-time Grammy Award winner, Knight Bachelor and Comma...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

Large Round Female Profile Painting on Panel With Yellow Pixel Floral Background
Large Round Female Profile Painting on Panel With Yellow Pixel Floral Background

Large Round Female Profile Painting on Panel With Yellow Pixel Floral Background

By Natasha Lelenco

Located in FISTERRA, ES

Large round female profile painting on wood panel with pixelated floral background and sculptural tondo format. This contemporary tondo painting by Natasha Lelenco transforms the cl...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Plywood, Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel

1968 OSPAAAL Original poster - Day of Solidarity with the Afro-American People
1968 OSPAAAL Original poster - Day of Solidarity with the Afro-American People

1968 OSPAAAL Original poster - Day of Solidarity with the Afro-American People

Located in PARIS, FR

This poster was produced for the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL) created by Fidel Castro. This organization was born during the ...

Category

1960s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

I Dream Of You
I Dream Of You

I Dream Of You

By John Randall Nelson

Located in Los Angeles, CA

John Randall Nelson’s paintings are layered with his own personal language consisting of patterns, symbols, and archetypes that may not make any literal sense but play on subconsciou...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Panel

Buffalo Dreams, Original Painting
Buffalo Dreams, Original Painting

Buffalo Dreams, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting portrays an American plains bison grazing on the vast grasslands of the American West. The animal is wrapped in an impressionistic swirl of soft...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

Guardians of the Blue
Guardians of the Blue

Guardians of the Blue

Located in Zofingen, AG

an antique-style fresco: blue flowers on a cracked, textured wall with subtle wear and ornamental details, evoking an ancient mural.

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

Peonies of Time
Peonies of Time

Peonies of Time

Located in Zofingen, AG

A painting in the style of an old fresco: rich, voluminous red peonies appear as if painted on an aged wall, featuring subtle cracks, worn details, and ornate textures that evoke a v...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic

KAWS Clean Slate Companion (KAWS brown clean slate)
KAWS Clean Slate Companion (KAWS brown clean slate)

KAWS Clean Slate Companion (KAWS brown clean slate)

By KAWS

Located in NEW YORK, NY

KAWS Clean Slate (Brown), new & unopened in its original packaging. A well-received work and variation of KAWS' large scale Clean Slate sculpture - a key ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Chicago Skyline - Pop Art Urban Landscape Painting
Chicago Skyline - Pop Art Urban Landscape Painting

Chicago Skyline - Pop Art Urban Landscape Painting

Located in Boston, MA

Chicago Skyline 40.0 x 30.0 x 1.5, 20.0 lbs Acrylic paint Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "This painting is a vibrantly colored Pop Art urban landscape of the Chicago Skyline. Inspired by my visit to the windy city and catching a good view of the architecture and interesting grouping of buildings, I re-created the cityscape in my very unique style with brighter and bolder than ever colors of red, green, orange and purple. The artwork is unframed with the image painted all the way around the edges." About the Artist: Sue Graef...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

Night Flowers (A), 2003, Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 314)
Night Flowers (A), 2003, Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 314)

Night Flowers (A), 2003, Screenprint by Yayoi Kusama (ABE 314)

By Yayoi Kusama

Located in Hong Kong, HK

Yayoi Kusama Night Flowers (2003) Screenprint [23 screens, 24 colors, 24 runs] image 28 x 66.3 cm sheet 42.8 x 80 cm framed 51 x 89 x 5 cm ed. 120, AP 12, PP5 paper Kakita-shi printer Okabe Tozuko Provenance: Mainichi Auction Tokyo Japan Publications: A specimen of the same edition is represented in full page at plate 314 of the Catalogue Raisonné of Kusama's prints: "Yayoi Kusama Prints 1979...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Flowerball (3D) Inside the Soul
Flowerball (3D) Inside the Soul

Flowerball (3D) Inside the Soul

By Takashi Murakami

Located in Östermalm, Stockholms län

The print is Diasec® framed. This mean the print is mounted between acrylic glass (UV-resistant) and a dibond (aluminum) backside, with an attached frame for easy hanging. Depth of t...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

Flower Lady, Peter Max
Flower Lady, Peter Max

Flower Lady, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Flower Lady Year: 1989 Edition: 6/150, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on Arches paper Size: 31.5 x 40.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signe...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Salvador Dali MoMa BE@RBRICK 400% & 100%
Salvador Dali MoMa BE@RBRICK 400% & 100%

Salvador Dali MoMa BE@RBRICK 400% & 100%

By Salvador Dalí­

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Salvador Dali Bearbrick 400% (Salvador Dali MoMa BE@RBRICK): This collaboration between MoMA and BE@RBRICK features the famous bear figure printed with the classic surrealist art of ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Galaxy Lady, Peter Max
Galaxy Lady, Peter Max

Galaxy Lady, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Galaxy Lady Year: 1972 Edition: T.P.; 300, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 16 x 18.5 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed by ...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Tree with Sailboat, Peter Max

Tree with Sailboat, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Tree with Sailboat Year: 2000 Edition: 500/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 2.75 x 3.125 inches Condition: Excellent I...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still Life with Hans Maler Pop Art Serigraph Hand Signed
Still Life with Hans Maler Pop Art Serigraph Hand Signed

Still Life with Hans Maler Pop Art Serigraph Hand Signed

By Josef Levi

Located in Surfside, FL

On deckle edged watermarked Arches French paper. hand signed in pencil, dated and numbered. the edition size is 175. there are three states of the same image image each with increasing detail and color. This is just for the one in the photo. Josef Alan Levi (1938) is an American artist whose works range over a number of different styles, but which are unified by certain themes consistently present among them. Josef Levi began his artistic career in the 1960s and early '70s, producing highly abstract and very modernist pieces: these employing exotic materials such as light fixtures and metallic parts. By 1975, Levy had transitioned to painting and drawing still lifes. At first these were, traditionally, of mundane subjects. Later, he would depict images from art history, including figures originally created by the Old Masters. Around 1980, he made another important shift, this time toward creating highly precise, though subtly altered reproductions of pairs of female faces which were originally produced by other artists. It is perhaps this work for which he is most well known. Since around 2000, Josef Levi has changed the style of his work yet again: now he works entirely with computers, using digital techniques to abstract greatly from art history, and also from other sources. Levi's works of art in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the National Gallery of Art, and the Albright-Knox Museum, among many others. Levi's art has been featured on the cover of Harper's Magazine twice, once in June 1987, and once in May 1997. Josef Levi received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959 from the University of Connecticut, where he majored in fine arts and minored in literature. From 1959 to 1960, he served to a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and from 1960 through 1967 he was in the U.S. Army Reserves. In 1966, he received the Purchase Award from the University of Illinois in 1966, and he was featured in New Talent U.S.A. by Art in America. He was an artist in residence at Appalachian State University in 1969, taught at Farleigh Dickenson University in 1971 and was a visiting professor of art at Pennsylvania State University in 1977. From 1975 to 2007, Levi resided in New York City. He now lives in an apartment in Rome, where he is able to paint with natural light as he was unable in New York. From 1959 to 1960, Josef took some courses of Howard McParlin Davis and Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University which initiated him into the techniques of reproducing the works of the Old Masters. His first works, created in the 1960s, were wood and stone sculptures of women. His first mature works were abstract pieces, constructed of electric lights and steel. In 1970, Levi's materials included fluorescent light bulbs, Rust-Oleum and perforated metal in addition to paint and canvas. By 1980, Josef Levi's art had transformed into a very specific form: a combination of reproductions of female faces which were originally depicted by other artists. The faces which he reproduces may be derived from either portraits or from small portions of much larger works; they are taken from paintings of the Old Masters, Japanese ukiyo-e, and 20th-century art. Artists from whom he has borrowed include: Vermeer, Rembrandt, Piero della Francesca, Botero, Matisse, Utamaro, Correggio, Da Vinci, Picasso, Chuck Close, Max Beckmann, Pisanello, Lichtenstein. The creation of these works is informed by Levi's knowledge and study of art history. Josef Levi's paintings from this period are drawn, then painted on fine linen canvas on wooden stretchers. The canvas is coated with twenty-five layers of gesso in order to produce a smooth surface on which to work. The drawing phase takes at least one month. Levi seals the drawing with acrylic varnish, and then he may apply layers of transparent acrylic in order to approximate the look of old paintings. After the last paint is applied, another layer of acrylic varnish is sprayed on to protect the work. Most of the figures in his contemporary pieces are not paired with any others. SELECTED COLLECTIONS MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, NY ALBRIGHT- KNOX GALLERY, BUFFALO, NY ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, RIDGEFIELD, CT NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, BROOKLYN, NY SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY, WASHINGTON, DC CORCORAN GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME ART...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Vincent Van Gogh (large unique painting)
Vincent Van Gogh (large unique painting)

Vincent Van Gogh (large unique painting)

By Steve Kaufman

Located in Aventura, FL

Unique hand painted silkscreen on canvas. Hand signed and dedicated on verso by Steve Kaufman. Canvas is stretched. Canvas size 34 x 40 x 2 inches. Artwork is in excellent condit...

Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Screen

Cosmic Jumper, Detail III, Peter Max

Cosmic Jumper, Detail III, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Cosmic Jumper, Detail III Year: 2002 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 4.87 x 4.5 inches Condition: Excell...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Soup Box - Onion (unique painting on canvas)
Soup Box - Onion (unique painting on canvas)

Soup Box - Onion (unique painting on canvas)

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

Unique acrylic painting and silkscreen on canvas. Hand signed and dated by Andy Warhol on verso. Martin Lawrence provenance label on verso. Canvas size 20 x 20 inches. The artwor...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Screen, Canvas, Acrylic

Geometric Profile & Sailboats, Peter Max
Geometric Profile & Sailboats, Peter Max

Geometric Profile & Sailboats, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Geometric Profile & Sailboats Year: 2001 Edition: 455/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 4.5 x 5.5 inches Condition: Exc...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

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.