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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
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version - collectible Pop Art
KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version - collectible Pop Art

KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version - collectible Pop Art

By KAWS

Located in Dallas, TX

KAWS - FAMILY Figures - Black version New on its original packaging. Medium: Vinyl & Cast Resin Open unknown edition Unsigned

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Sigueme (Follow Me) Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Neo-Cubist Style, 2013

Sigueme (Follow Me) Acrylic Painting on Canvas, Neo-Cubist Style, 2013

By Jose Palacios

Located in New York, NY

In this original acrylic paint on canvas, Jose Palacios depicts a woman in a neo-cubist and pop art style climbing a winding white staircase. Her body is composed of geometrical shapes filled with patterns and colors in yellow, greens, blues, pinks, and purples and she is framed by purple and pink walls. She is carrying a red high heel...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

KAWS Passing Through Companion 2018 (KAWS companion)
KAWS Passing Through Companion 2018 (KAWS companion)

KAWS Passing Through Companion 2018 (KAWS companion)

By KAWS

Located in NEW YORK, NY

KAWS Grey Passing Through Companion 2018. New and sealed in its original packaging. The most iconic of the KAWS Companions, this passing through piece was published by KAWS One Med...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

No5 by Craig Alan - Original Mixed Media

No5 by Craig Alan - Original Mixed Media

By Craig Alan

Located in New York City, NY

ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ON ARTBOARD 48 x 36 inches - Original mixed media signed by the artist. Craig Alan is a Pop Surrealist, internationally recognized for his ingenious portraits o...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Damien Hirst Wrapping Paper 2006 (set of 2)
Damien Hirst Wrapping Paper 2006 (set of 2)

Damien Hirst Wrapping Paper 2006 (set of 2)

By Damien Hirst

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Damien Hirst, Wrapping Paper set of 2 double-sided sheets. 2006. Published by Agnes B and Edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist. A rare and sought-after vintage Damien Hirst collectors set t...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Offset

Keith Haring Club DV8 poster 1986 (Keith Haring San Francisco 1986)
Keith Haring Club DV8 poster 1986 (Keith Haring San Francisco 1986)

Keith Haring Club DV8 poster 1986 (Keith Haring San Francisco 1986)

By Keith Haring

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Keith Haring San Francisco 1986: "Club DV8 Unveils the Keith Haring Room": San Francisco June 5th, 1986: Vintage original 1980s Keith Haring illustrated poster for Club DV8 San Francisco. During the time Haring was creating a mural for the St. Patrick's Day Care Center San Francisco, he painted several canvases to be installed above the bar at the famed Club DV8. Performance artist John Sex, whose name appears on the poster, was one of Haring's close friends. Offset lithograph. Image: 16 x 20 inches. Framed dimensions: 25 x 21 inches. Fair overall vintage condition; minor surface tear & age related wear. Framed in glass; frame in very good overall condition. Literature/Catalogue Raisonne: Keith Haring: Posters (entry 46; Prestel publishing) Further Background: Keith Haring DV8...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)
Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)

Hebru Brantley Flyboy Set of 2 (Hebru Brantley art toys)

By Hebru Brantley

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Hebru Brantley Beyond the Beyond, 2018. Set of 2 Hebru Brantley Flyboy’s, each new in original packaging. Medium: Painted cast vinyl. Dimensions (applies to each individual figure): 9 x 8 x 4 inches (22.9 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm). Each new in its original packaging. From a sold out edition of unknown; published by Hebru Brantley, Billionaire Boys Club & BAIT. Safely packed and shipped from New York, NY. Artist Statement: "Flyboy came out of characters of colour within popular culture. I hate saying “popular culture,” but it’s really popular culture. I mean you look at cartoons. You’ve got animated sponges and ducks and birds and whatever, and it’s very rare to see a popular character within any medium that is African-American, Latino, even Asian. What I wanted to do was create that, but in a space of high art and be able to have some historical context to that character. So I looked at the Tuskegee Airmen...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art
Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art

Huge Red Grooms Monotype Oil Painting LA Hollywood Circus Film Cartoon Pop Art

By Red Grooms

Located in Surfside, FL

Red Grooms (American, b. 1937). Keystone Kops to the Rescue III. 2006. Triptych color monotype created by the artist with lithographic ink on plexiglass plates, and then hand-colored by the artist. Printed by master printer Bud Shark. Printed on White Rives BFK. A unique impression, signed by the artist in pencil lower right. 3 sheets. Each sheet is 30 x 44 ½ ”. Overall: 30 x 133 ½ ” This has all the wonderful components of a Red Grooms piece, Keystone Kops policemen, Circus, Cactus, Cowboys, Hollywood sign etc. Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Grooms was given the nickname "Red" by Dominic Falcone (of Provincetown's Sun Gallery) when he was starting out as a dishwasher at a restaurant in Provincetown and was studying with Hans Hofmann. Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee during the middle of the Great Depression. Red Grooms came of age in the shadow of the Abstract Expressionists. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, then at Nashville's Peabody College. In 1956, Grooms moved to New York City, to enroll at the New School for Social Research. A year later, Grooms attended a summer session at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in Provincetown, Massachusetts. There he met experimental animation pioneer Yvonne Andersen, with whom he collaborated on several short films. Grooms follows in the tradition of William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, who were canny commentators on the human condition. In 1969, Peter Schjeldahl compared Grooms to Marcel Duchamp, because both embodied "a movement of one man that is open to everybody." In the spring of 1958, Grooms, Yvonne Andersen and Lester Johnson each painted twelve-foot by twelve-foot panels, which they erected with telephone poles on a parking lot adjacent an amusement park in Salisbury, MA. Inspired by artist-run spaces such as New York's Hansa Gallery and Phoenix, and Provincetown's Sun Gallery, Grooms and painter Jay Milder opened the City Gallery in Grooms' second-floor loft in the Flatiron District. When Phoenix refused to show Claes Oldenburg, Grooms and Milder dropped out of Phoenix and City Gallery presented Oldenberg's first New York exhibition, as well as that of Jim Dine. Other artists who showed at City Gallery include Stephen Durkee, Mimi Gross (daughter of Chaim Gross and Red Grooms wife), Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson, and Alex Katz. Grooms never developed the detached stance of such Pop Art practitioners as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein or James Rosenquist. Instead he painted his own life, and became, literally, an actor on the stage of life -- in this case the art-as-life "happenings" of the downtown New York scene. Inspired by George Méliès...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Monoprint, Monotype

Card Players, Pop Art Lithograph by Edwina Sandys
Card Players, Pop Art Lithograph by Edwina Sandys

Card Players, Pop Art Lithograph by Edwina Sandys

By Edwina Sandys

Located in Long Island City, NY

Edwina Sandys, British (1938 - ) - Card Players, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 197/250, Image Size: 20 x 25 inches, Size: 21 x 28 in. (53.34...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Brushstrokes (C.45)
Brushstrokes (C.45)

Brushstrokes (C.45)

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in New York, NY

Screenprint on off-white wove paper Signed and numbered in pencil: 44 from 300 plus an unknown number of AP (inscribed A/P).

Category

20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Fishing Hole, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein
Fishing Hole, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein

Fishing Hole, Psychedelic Screenprint by Max Epstein

By Max Epstein

Located in Long Island City, NY

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Fishing Hole, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 295, Image Size: 19 x 28 inches, Size: 23 in. x 35 i...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

Rock N' Roll Guitar III, Peter Max

Rock N' Roll Guitar III, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Rock N' Roll Guitar III Year: 2003 Edition: 451/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper Size: 4.12 x 2.43 inches Condition: Excelle...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

Male Model Torso
Male Model Torso

Male Model Torso

By Andy Warhol

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

From The Jon Gould Collection of Andy Warhol Photographs Photograph of an unknown male model, possibly in Paris, 1980 This work is not signed by the artist, however, each photo is...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory. UEFA. 1996
Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory. UEFA. 1996

Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory. UEFA. 1996

By Marco Silombria

Located in Firenze, IT

Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory Artist: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017) Medium: Charcoal on paper Dimensions: 101 x 72 cm Signed: Lower right, "Si...

Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil

Raffaele Ardor - Bear Brick Sunflower Tribute
Raffaele Ardor - Bear Brick Sunflower Tribute

Raffaele Ardor - Bear Brick Sunflower Tribute

By ARDOR

Located in PARIS, FR

"This handcrafted Bearbrick, finished in shimmering gold leaf, pays tribute to Murakami’s iconic Sunflowers. A refined ceramic collectible, it blends art and luxury in a distinguishe...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Porcelain, Acrylic

The Axe by KARTEL unique handcarved marble sculpture -smooth finish
The Axe by KARTEL unique handcarved marble sculpture -smooth finish

The Axe by KARTEL unique handcarved marble sculpture -smooth finish

By KARTEL

Located in Dallas, TX

This is a gorgeous hand-carved marble object. The marble is polished and has an amazing tactile feeling. This piece is celebrates our connection to everyday objects and reminds us ...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Stone, Marble

Tokyo Central - Original Abstract Japanese City Scene Colorful Mixed Media Art
Tokyo Central - Original Abstract Japanese City Scene Colorful Mixed Media Art

Tokyo Central - Original Abstract Japanese City Scene Colorful Mixed Media Art

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

'Balloon Animals' (Collector's Set)
'Balloon Animals' (Collector's Set)

'Balloon Animals' (Collector's Set)

By Jeff Koons

Located in New York, NY

Jeff Koons' Balloon Animals Collector’s Set (2017–2019) is a striking series of limited-edition sculptures that reimagine childhood balloon animals in highly reflective, precision-cr...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Porcelain

After the Party (F. & S. II.183)
After the Party (F. & S. II.183)

After the Party (F. & S. II.183)

By Andy Warhol

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

This is an unsigned and unnumbered unique trial proof (without the colored plates), aside from the edition of 1000. Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York Publisher: Grosset and Dunl...

Category

1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

CHANEL Petit Flacon - Pop Art Sculptures

CHANEL Petit Flacon - Pop Art Sculptures

By Alben

Located in New York, NY

Cheeky references to pop culture and the societal context. Grounded in a postmodern vernacular, Alben’s paintings and sculptures are a pastiche of art historical moments including P...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Mixed Media

ARDOR - Small Bear, H Tribute
ARDOR - Small Bear, H Tribute

ARDOR - Small Bear, H Tribute

By ARDOR

Located in PARIS, FR

Ardor is a brand born from the vision of artist Raffaele and dedicated to his son. Originally from Naples, Raffaele moved to Miami at the age of 18 to study design. Immersing himself...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Porcelain, Acrylic

Two Cosmic Sages Ver. II, Peter Max
Two Cosmic Sages Ver. II, Peter Max

Two Cosmic Sages Ver. II, Peter Max

By Peter Max

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Two Cosmic Sages Ver. II Year: 2001 Edition: 500/500, plus proofs Medium: Lithograph on archival paper Size: 9 x 11 inches Condition: Excellent Inscri...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Lithograph

ANDREW K - Mirror Polished French Bulldog 50cm
ANDREW K - Mirror Polished French Bulldog 50cm

ANDREW K - Mirror Polished French Bulldog 50cm

Located in PARIS, FR

Technique : Stainless Steel Sculpture, mirror polished Edition : Limited Edition of 50 Size: 50 x 48 x 26 cm Weight: 5kg Information: Strict geometry, impeccable architecture of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

The dreamer's home
The dreamer's home

The dreamer's home

By Elina Bilous

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The painting is permeated with memories of childhood and early dawns, the smell of grass, earth, sunlight, long walks and fresh coffee. A story about how to be free, light, brave. Be...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif
Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif

Red White Blue Americana Wall Hanging Painting Sculpture American Flag Motif

Located in Surfside, FL

Painted wood wall hanging sculpture "Red, White and Blue," (and gold) 2008 Stamped signed with initials, date and edition 2/5 Oded Halahmy, Abstract Modernist artist, was born in Iraq in the old city of Baghdad in 1938, the artist came from a family of Orthodox Jews with deep roots in ancient Babylonian culture. His father, Salech Haskel Chebbazah, was a prosperous goldsmith in Baghdad and a Jewish member of the Communist Party when Jews comprised more than a quarter of the population of Baghdad. He refers to his home as the “land of wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates.”, Oded moved with his family to Israel in the 1950s, was educated at St. Martin's School of Art in London which was then a leading center for sculpture, led by Anthony Caro and Philip King and having links to Henry Moore. He taught sculpture are in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, as well as many other public and private collections worldwide. He currently lives in New York City and Old Jaffa, Israel. Like countless New Yorkers who arrived from distant lands, Oded Halahmy has a rich personal history of exile, migration and travels. Although New York has been his home for over 45 years, memories of Iraq left an indelible imprint on his life and work. Known for his dynamic yet often playful figurative pop art style sculptures in wood and bronze, he fills his work with images — albeit abstracted from reality — that evoke the landscape, architecture and rich colors of the Middle East. Palm trees, doves, pomegranates, temples and age-old symbols abound along with deep reds, amber, sky blue and the familiar greenish-blue hues of aged bronze. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Dates-Pomegranates-Olive Oil: Chanukah Lamps, Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, Washington, D.C. Homeward: Baghdad - Jerusalem - New York, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, The Ann Loeb Gallery, Washington, Homelands: Baghdad-Jerusalem-New York, A Retrospective, Yeshiva University Museum, NY The Common Ground; The Sculpture Of Oded Halahmy, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY Herr-Chambliss Fine Arts, Hot Springs, AR Artists Studio, Old Jaffa, Israel Byer Museum of Art, Evanston, IL The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT Hebrew Union College, New York, NY Bicentennial Tribute, United States Federal Plaza, New York, NY Horace Richter Galleries, Jaffa, Israel, 1976 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY America-Israel Culture House, New York, NY Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canada Old Jaffa Gallery, Jaffa, Israel Pollack Gallery, Toronto, Canada SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Iraqi Art...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art

Materials

Wood, Paint

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.