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Pop Art 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
Dogs in Coats, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Des a painting titled "Dogs in Coats" really need more words??? :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready ...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Twin Mirrors (C.102), 1970
Located in Greenwich, CT
Twin Mirrors (C.102) is a screenprint on paper created for the Guggenheim Museum in 1970, 35 x 21 inches image size, signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '70' lower right and numbered 94/250 lower left (from the edition of 250 plus an unknown number of artist proofs). Framed in a contemporary white frame. Catalog - Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein - A Catalogue Raisonne 1948 - 1997, Hudson Hills Press, NY and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pg.118, #102. About Lichtenstein’s Mirror...
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20th Century Pop Art Art

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Paper, Screen

Amazing Grace, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Grace Coddington. Fashion icon. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: ...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

The Grace Coddington Snow Globe, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The Grace Coddington Snow Globe :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: S...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Tom Wesselmann ( 1931 – 2004 ) – Monica nude - 21/50 hand-signed Aquatint – 1991
Located in Varese, IT
Monica Nude with Yellow Curtain Aquatint in colors on wove paper , Edited in 1991 Limited edition of 50 copies signed in pencil by artist and numbered 21/50 in lower right corner pap...
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1990s Pop Art Art

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Aquatint, Paper

"Where Did You Go?", Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The proceeds from the sale of this painting, and 3 other animal-themed works, will benefit the non-profit . Brian always helped the underdog—be it human, canine or feline. That is ...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

"Sol LeWitt (2)", Painting on cut aluminium, Pop Kinetic art, 60 x 60 cm
Located in Carballo, ES
The root of Guedes's work is located in the MADÍ movement, of Argentine origin and little repercussion in Spain, which attaches great importance to the tensions that are established ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

North Carolina Lighthouses, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A child of New England who loved lighthouses everywhere. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Han...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Louie Louie", Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
The proceeds from the sale of this painting, and 3 other animal-themed works, will benefit the non-profit . Brian always helped the underdog—be it human, canine or feline. That is ...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Mirror #9 (C.114, Mirror Series), 1972
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror #9 (C.114) from the Mirror Series is a screenprint and lithograph on paper, 30 x 21.18 inches, signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '72' lower center margin and framed in a contemporary white frame. Catalog - Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein - A Catalogue Raisonne 1948 - 1997, Hudson Hills Press, NY and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pg.126, #114. About Lichtenstein’s Mirror Series (taken from Corlett): Mirrors were an important subject in Lichtenstein’s paintings and prints of the early 1970s. From late 1969 to 1972 he painted over forty canvases depicting this subject. The first print was in 1970, with Twin Mirrors (cat. no.102) for the Guggenheim Museum. In 1972 he also produced Mirror (cat. No. 115) at Styria Studio, in addition to this Gemini G.E.L. series of nine prints. In the mid-seventies he took up the subject in sculpture, and he returned to it in prints as recently 1990, with Mirror (cat. No 246). In addition, he has often explored the related theme of reflections, incorporating them in various paintings and in several print series: Reflections (1990; cat. Nos. 239 – 245), Interiors (1990, published 1991; cat. nos. 247 – 54), and Water Lilies (1992; cat. nos. 261 – 66). This Gemini group (catalog nos. 1-6 - 114) utilizes lithography, screenprint, line-cut, and embossing... In an interview with Lawrence Alloway, Lichtenstein noted: “You know, I am always impressed by how artificial things look – like descriptions of office furniture in newspapers. It is the most dry kind of drawing, as in the Mirrors. They really only look like mirrors if someone tells you they do. Only once you know that, they may be moved as far as possible from realism, but you want it to be taken for realism. It becomes as stylized as you can get away with, in an ordinary sense, not stylish.” As Jack Cowart has commented: “One would not actually stand in front of a Lichtenstein Mirror...
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20th Century Pop Art Art

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Lithograph, Screen

Lighthouse Snow Globe, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
shine your light. won't you shine your light on me... :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: ...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sigmar Polke: Dr Pabscht het z’Schpiez s’Schpäckbschteck z’schpät bschteut
Located in Hamburg, DE
Sigmar Polke (German, 1941-2010) Dr Pabscht het z’Schpiez s’Schpäckbschteck z’schpät bschteut (Parkett No. 30), 1980/91 Medium: Digital print on vinyl with acrylic lacquer, mounted o...
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Late 19th Century Pop Art Art

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Acrylic, Digital

Pink Mona Lisa Contemporary Pop Art paint swatches in museum frame figurative
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media (household paint swatches) 32 x 16” x 2 inches 2023 Framed in white with Optium museum quality non-reflective Plexiglass The artist uses (Home depot household paint...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Archival Paper

DATA RAIDER (UNIQUE MIXED MEDIA)
Located in Aventura, FL
Acrylic painting - mixed media, paper cuts, surgical blades, 24-carat gold leaf embossed butterfly wings, float cast in resin on wood and aluminum with white museum deep wood tray fr...
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1990s Pop Art Art

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Metal

Near the window , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Near the window , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Color

'Fractured Mind' - Abstract Painting on Board by British Graffiti Artist
Located in Preston, GB
'Fractured Mind' - Abstract Painting on Board by British Urban Graffiti Artist, Chris Pegg, using red, black & golden yellow. Chris Pegg is a self-taught Street Artist producing artw...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Wood, Paint, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Bo...

Mirror #7 (C.112), 1972
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mirror #7 (C.112) is a screenprint and lithograph on paper, 29.75 x 17.37 inches, signed and dated 'rf Lichtenstein '72' lower right and numbered 62/80 lower left. From the edition of 96 (there were also 10 AP, and 6 other various proofs). Framed in a contemporary white frame. Catalog - Corlett, The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein - A Catalogue Raisonne 1948 - 1997, Hudson Hills Press, NY and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pg.125, #112. About Lichtenstein’s Mirror...
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20th Century Pop Art Art

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Lithograph, Screen

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

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Lithograph

Shicago Justus (Chicago Justice), Homage to Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers
Located in New York, NY
Peter Saul Shicago Justus (Chicago Justice) from Conspiracy: The Artist as Witness, 1971 Lithograph on Arches paper Edition AP (Rare AP, aside from the regular edition of 150) Hand-s...
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1970s Pop Art Art

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Pencil, Lithograph

Buster Brown and Tige, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Just the right fit! :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Lo...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Nothing to See Here, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
So many televisions and not a thing to see. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Sign...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Sol LeWitt (3)", Painting on cut aluminium, Pop Kinetic art, 60 x 60 cm
Located in Carballo, ES
The root of Guedes's work is located in the MADÍ movement, of Argentine origin and little repercussion in Spain, which attaches great importance to the tensions that are established ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Keith Haring TV Head Skate Deck (Keith Haring yellow)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
RARE out of print 2012 Keith Haring Skateboard Deck featuring one of the artist's iconic TV Head Men. This vibrant, yellow & magenta Keith Haring skateboard deck originated circa 20...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Wood, Screen

90cm teddy H Tribute
Located in PARIS, FR
About the artist : Naor is a French artist from Lyon born in 1988. Completely anchored in his time, he has always traveled a lot around the world. If travels form youth, Naor was ins...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Resin

Large Triptych. Sister, Girlfriend, Cat And Still Life. Ltd. Ed. 7/25 On Dibond
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This triptych is a multi-panel composition featuring 3 UV prints on dibond aluminum of characters from the Diners series by Moldovan artist Natasha Lelenco. In this series, comprised...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Metal

Be@rbrick x Warhol and Basquiat Estates 1000% figure
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Be@rbrick x Andy Warhol Foundation and Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat Vinyl Figure: (1000%) A unique, timeless collectible trademarked & licensed by the Estate of Jean-Michel Basqui...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Resin, Vinyl

The Pink Panther Original Production Drawing
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: Original Production Drawing IMAGE SIZE: 16" x 12.5" PRODUCTION: The Pink Panther SKU: CCV2950 COMES WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ABOUT THE IMAGE: The Pink Panther animat...
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1960s Pop Art Art

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Paper, Pencil

The Architect, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A young boy loses track of time building a sandcastle. He starts in the morning, and when he finally realizes it's time for a lunch break, it's already dinnerti...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Mixed Media

Pond , 70x70cm, print on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Pond , 70x70cm, print on canvas
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Color

Forever Marilyn V (Limited Edition Print)
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Celebrating Marilyn Monroe with this ultra sophisticated piece. Limited edition of 30 museum quality Giclee prints on PAPER, signed and numbered by the artist. Print lead time 1 wee...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Giclée

This Is Art Or Not
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original pop art sculpture in the shape if a jerrycan. Born in Paris in 1960 and Influenced by the Pop Art movement, Erik Salin's figurative artistic approach diverts objects from t...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Fiberglass, Mixed Media

JOZZA "THE KING" 24 X 30 ORIGINAL ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Jozza Title: 'The King' Year: 2024 Media: Original acrylic on canvas Size: 30x24 Inches Hand signed on the recto and signed "Jozza", Titled, and ID numbered on the verso. Con...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Bearbrick Flying Balloons Girl 400% (after Banksy BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
after Banksy Flying Balloons Girl Bearbrick Vinyl Figures: Set of 2 works: Inspired by Banksy's Flying Balloons Girl. New in original packaging. Mediu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Vinyl, Resin

Keith Haring Safe Sex! (vintage Keith Haring poster)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Safe Sex poster 1987: A fun, witty, classic Haring illustration created by the artist in conjunction with his many Aids Awar...
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1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Study for Rolling Stones' 'Sticky Fingers' Album Cover - Polaroid
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Art

Materials

Polaroid

Raymond Pettibon illustrated Punk flyer 1980 (Raymond Pettibon punk art)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon Punk Art 1980: Rare early Raymond Pettibon illustrated punk flyer published on the occasion of: The Dead Kennedys & Circle Jerks at The Whisky A Go Go: August, 1980....
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1980s Pop Art Art

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Offset

Study for Rolling Stone's 'Sticky Fingers' Album Cover - Polaroid
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation number also on verso. Pro...
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1970s Pop Art Art

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Polaroid

F0010-Contemporary, Abstract, Minimalism, Modern, Pop art, Surrealist, Landscape
Located in London, London
Boy at the mountains Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, and certificate of authenticity. Edition of 25 (Unframed) His wo...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Paper, Inkjet, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Good Vibes Only No.1, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic, ink, neon pastels, Spray Paint, pastels, on Canvas. Good Vibes Only No.1 is a 100 cm/39.4" W x 70 cm/27.6" x 2 cm/0.8" deep mixed media painting. This Series is called "...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Plastic Jesus animal AI street art spray paint on canvas pop art contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Plastic Jesus: Born : London (United Kingdom) Current Location: Los Angeles Huffington Post - Best street art of 2012 Complex art and Design : top 10 street artist to watch (2013)...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You
Located in Nottingham, GB
Mixed media signed and hand embellished with inks and paint, print on paper. Edition 1/1 Fantastic bright red pop art featuring James McQueen's most loved quote. Expertly framed an...
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2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Baloo Baba, Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937) Title: Baloo Baba Year: 1972 Edition: 300, plus proofs Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 16 x 18 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed by the ...
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1970s Pop Art Art

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Screen

Balloon Dog ( After ) - Blue
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular 999 pcs edition of the famous "Balloon Dog". Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Metal

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Original Production Drawing: Dopey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dopey MEDIUM: Original Production Drawing SIZE: 12" x 10" SKU: CCV2963 ABOUT THE FILM: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American an...
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1930s Pop Art Art

Materials

Paint, Paper

Balloon Dog ( After ) - Orange
By After Jeff Koons
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
A one time exclusive re-edition of 500 pcs from the highly popular 999 pcs edition of the famous "Balloon Dog". Cold cast resin, comes with its original box and certificate of authe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Metal

Mickey Mouse Original Production Drawing: Canine Caddy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: ​Original Production Drawing IMAGE SIZE: 12" x 10" PRODUCTION: Canine Caddy (1941) SKU: CCV2637 ABOUT THE IMAGE: A drawing from the theatrical s...
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1940s Pop Art Art

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Paint, Paper, Pen, Pencil

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Enamel

Rat Stencil
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Sold framed Banksy created this Rat stencil as an magazine insert very early in his art career in 2002. Rats are central characters in Banksy's oeuvre and here he give this rat plen...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Art

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Stencil

Breaking Barriers, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
This mixed media collage on wood was created utilizing various prints of pictures I took, along with acrylic paint. My inspiration was "hope". I wanted to create an image that repres...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Andy Warhol, The Star - Kestner-Gesellschaft, Exhibition Poster, Pop Art Print
Located in Hamburg, DE
After Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Andy Warhol, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Exhibition Poster, 1981 Medium: Offset lithograph in colors on paper Dimensions: 84 x 59 cm
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20th Century Pop Art Art

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Offset

Woody Woodpecker Original Production Drawing and Walter Lantz Signed Check
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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1970s Pop Art Art

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Paint, Paper

Tom and Jerry 1958 Original Production Cel on Hand-Painted Background: Tom, Baby
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Original Background IMAGE SIZE: 11.5" x 9" PRODUCTION: Tom and Jerry, Tot Watchers (1958) SKU: CCV2926 ABOUT THE MEDIUM: Original Production Cels...
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1950s Pop Art Art

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Paper, Pencil

Marilyn Like a Goddess, Painting, Acrylic on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Acrylic

Signed artist catalog with a drawing
Located in Jerusalem, IL
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1980s Pop Art Art

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Magazine Paper, Permanent Marker

Baby Doll, Repetto Tribute 2023
Located in PARIS, FR
Rachel Bergeret, stylist by trade, created her heroine more than 10 years ago. We call it ''La Parisienne'': The wavy hair, the dominance of gold by Gustav Klimt, the audacity of Toulouse Lautrec and the modernity of Edmond Kiraz have greatly influenced Rachel Bergeret since her early childhood. Thanks to her creativity, Rachel Bergeret thus composes three-dimensional works with a predominance for painting and recycling brand bags...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

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Gold Leaf

M019-Figurative, Pop art. Street art, Modern, Contemporary, Abstract Mickey Mous
Located in London, London
M019, 2019 Digital pigment print Ultrachrome ink on Fabriano Rosaspina paper. Hand signed by the artist, (Unframed) edition of 150 His work has been shown in Reina Sofía Museum o...
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2010s Pop Art Art

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Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Patti Smith Horses vinyl 1st Pressing (Robert Mapplethorpe Patti Smith)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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1970s Pop Art Art

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Offset

December, OP Art Print by Herbert Bayer 1969
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Herbert Bayer, Austrian (1900–1985) Title: December Year: 1969 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 6/100 Size: 14 x 12 in. (35.56 x 30.48 cm) Frame: 20...
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1960s Pop Art Art

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Screen

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