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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
Walasse Ting - Green Cat, etching and aquatint, Signed/N, scarce Italian print
Walasse Ting - Green Cat, etching and aquatint, Signed/N, scarce Italian print

Walasse Ting - Green Cat, etching and aquatint, Signed/N, scarce Italian print

By Walasse Ting

Located in New York, NY

Walasse Ting 丁雄泉 Green Cat, 1984 Color etching and aquatint on copper plate, printed on Fabriano Rosaspina paper Pencil signed, numbered 178/230, dated 1984 along with artist's perso...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Pencil, Graphite, Etching, Aquatint

Venice, Pop Art Screenprint by Mori Shizume
Venice, Pop Art Screenprint by Mori Shizume

Venice, Pop Art Screenprint by Mori Shizume

By Mori Shizume

Located in Long Island City, NY

Venice by Mori Shizume, Japanese (1928–2014) Date: 1979 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Size: 21.5 in. x 30 in. (54.61 cm x 76.2 cm) Image Size: 15.75 x 27 ...

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1970s Pop Art

Materials

Screen

ABSTRACT MOOD
ABSTRACT MOOD

Daria KustoABSTRACT MOOD, 2025

$108Sale Price|20% Off

ABSTRACT MOOD

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original hand drawn artwork by Daria Kusto. Ink ,acrylic markers on Paper, varnish. not including frame. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

ABSTRACT FACE
ABSTRACT FACE

ABSTRACT FACE

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original hand drawn artwork by Daria Kusto. Ink ,markers on Paper, varnish. not including frame. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Permanent Marker, Acrylic

YOSHITOMO NARA - WE ARE PUNKS MUG (Small) Design modern pop art urban Japan
YOSHITOMO NARA - WE ARE PUNKS MUG (Small) Design modern pop art urban Japan

YOSHITOMO NARA - WE ARE PUNKS MUG (Small) Design modern pop art urban Japan

By Yoshitomo Nara

Located in Madrid, Madrid

Yoshitomo Nara - We are punks Mug Small Date of creation: 2011 Medium: Porcelain Edition: Open Size: 65 x Φ85 mm (200ml) Condition: Brand new, inside its custom box Description: A small porcelain mug based on Yoshitomo Nara's We Are Punks (2011), a colour-pencil drawing of a defiant, round-headed child whose expression falls somewhere between a lullaby and a battle cry. The piece belongs to a body of work where Nara channels the raw energy of the punk and folk records he grew up listening to on U.S. Armed Forces radio in rural Aomori, a thread that runs from his earliest sketchbooks to his large-scale canvases and limited editions. Crafted in Hasami ware from Nagasaki Prefecture, the mug is dishwasher and microwave safe. The clay is fired and glazed in Japan using techniques passed down through four centuries of potters in the hills above Nagasaki. The result is a clean white body, light but solid in the hand, with a matte finish that lets the illustration sit naturally on the surface rather than floating under a layer of gloss. Peek inside once you have finished your espresso and you will find one of Nara's girls staring back at you from the bottom of the cup, as if she got there first and has no intention of leaving. It is a small, private encounter: exactly the kind of moment Nara builds into his work. His figures never perform for a crowd; they address you one-on-one, and finding one at the bottom of a coffee cup is about as intimate as it gets. ABOUT THE ARTIST Yoshitomo Nara (奈良美智, b. 1959, Hirosaki) is one of the most influential Japanese artists working today. Round-headed children with piercing gazes populate his canvases and sculptures, images that have gone well beyond the art world to become a broader cultural phenomenon. Childhood in Aomori: Solitude, Nature, and Radio Waves Nara grew up in Hirosaki, a small city in Aomori Prefecture at the northern tip of Honshū. Both parents worked long hours, leaving young Yoshitomo to fend for himself after school. The Japanese have a word for children like him, kagikko, latchkey kids who come home to an empty house and learn to keep their own company. That early acquaintance with solitude runs through every painting. Look at any of Nara's figures and you will find a self-contained being who meets your eye with a steadiness that could be courage or could just as easily be vulnerability. During those solitary years, Western music reached him through the Far East Network (FEN), the U.S. Armed Forces radio station. Rock, folk, and later punk gave him a way to feel before painting ever did. As a young boy he bought his first record, Suzie Q, and has often said that album covers were his earliest art gallery. Later, he would design covers for Shonen Knife, R.E.M., and Bloodthirsty Butchers, and every exhibition he puts on is accompanied by a playlist of his own making. Education: Aichi and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf After earning a BFA (1985) and MFA (1987) at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Nara relocated to Germany to enrol at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the same school that had shaped Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter. Under Neo-Expressionist painter A.R. Penck (1991–1993), he received one piece of advice that stuck: "Paint on the canvas as if you are drawing." Bold, pared-back figures, large rounded heads set against bare backgrounds, began to take shape on his canvases. At the Kunstakademie's annual student show in 1992, visitors saw The Girl with the Knife in Her Hand (1991), a painting that crystallised the tension running through all of Nara's work: an apparently innocent girl holding a tiny knife, a gesture he reads not as aggression but as self-defence against a threatening adult world. Once finished with his studies, Nara settled in Cologne in 1994 and set up in a former cotton mill. Cut off by the language barrier, he turned painting into a conversation with himself, and it was in that solitude that the gaze people remember long after leaving the gallery first appeared. Return to Japan and International Acclaim Twelve years later, Nara came back to Japan. I DON'T MIND, IF YOU FORGET ME. opened at the Yokohama Museum of Art in 2001 and toured five Japanese venues, including Hirosaki. MoMA New York acquired 130 of his drawings around the same time, and the travelling retrospective Nothing Ever Happens (2003–2005) cemented his reputation in the United States. Within the Japanese "New Pop" wave, he shared the stage with artists such as Takashi Murakami, Makoto Aida, and Mariko Mori...

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2010s Pop Art

Materials

Porcelain

Edward Ruscha 'Standard Station' 1992 Pop Art Vintage
Edward Ruscha 'Standard Station' 1992 Pop Art Vintage

Edward Ruscha 'Standard Station' 1992 Pop Art Vintage

By Ed Ruscha

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Offset lithograph from a portfolio of six prints published by the Museum of Modern Art, now out of print. Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station is among his most iconic images, encapsulating...

Category

1990s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

SKULL DOG
SKULL DOG

SKULL DOG

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original hand drawn artwork by Daria Kusto. Ink , markers on Paper, not including frame. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Bouquet of Love

Bouquet of Love

By Takashi Murakami

Located in London, GB

Takashi Murakami Bouquet of Love, 2012 signed and numbered by the artist Offset lithograph with cold stamp 68 x 68 cm Edition of 300 Produced by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Offset

BASQUIAT  & HARING
BASQUIAT  & HARING

BASQUIAT & HARING

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original hand drawn artwork by Daria Kusto. Ink , Watercolor ,markers on Paper, not including frame. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Square 3D Wall Relief in Clay Floral Aggregation Mosaic in Soft Multicolor Tones
Square 3D Wall Relief in Clay Floral Aggregation Mosaic in Soft Multicolor Tones

Square 3D Wall Relief in Clay Floral Aggregation Mosaic in Soft Multicolor Tones

By Elizabeth Art Candy

Located in FISTERRA, ES

This square wall sculpture presents a high-relief surface of densely packed, hand-modeled clay forms arranged in non-hierarchical clusters that evoke buds, seeds, and cellular struct...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Clay, Spray Paint, Board

The One, Oil Painting
The One, Oil Painting

The One, Oil Painting

By Keith Thomson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
In a shaft of late-afternoon light, a woman sits half-submerged in an antique tub. The deep green walls around her fall into shadow. She looks at her rubber duc...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Oil

Neuschwanstein
Neuschwanstein

Neuschwanstein

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Andy Warhol "Neuschwanstein" 1987. Offset lithograph & silkscreen on varick rag. The second edition of Neuschwanstein, jointly published by Edition Schellmann, Maximilian Verlag ...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Offset, Screen

Object in the Mirror, Oil Painting
Object in the Mirror, Oil Painting

Object in the Mirror, Oil Painting

By Keith Thomson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A vintage sedan cuts through a blazing blue desert sky as the driver glances out the window, caught between curiosity and concern. He knows mirages are common i...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Oil

Desert Drama, Original Painting
Desert Drama, Original Painting

Desert Drama, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster captures a Southwestern landscape framed by two towering saguaro cacti and a dry creek bed winding through weathered cliffs. Vivid green and ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art

Materials

Acrylic

Art Card: Keith Haring - Andy Mouse - New Coke Hand signed by Keith Haring Frame
Art Card: Keith Haring - Andy Mouse - New Coke Hand signed by Keith Haring Frame

Art Card: Keith Haring - Andy Mouse - New Coke Hand signed by Keith Haring Frame

By Keith Haring

Located in New York, NY

Offset lithograph postcard Boldly signed by Keith Haring on the front• The piece is part of Haring's "Andy Mouse" series, which features a character that is a whimsical blend of Mickey Mouse and his friend and mentor, Andy Warhol. By combining these icons with the New Coke...

Category

1980s Pop Art

Materials

Postcard, ABS

Multicolor 3D Floral-Inspired Wall Sculpture Mosaic of Spherical Floral Forms
Multicolor 3D Floral-Inspired Wall Sculpture Mosaic of Spherical Floral Forms

Multicolor 3D Floral-Inspired Wall Sculpture Mosaic of Spherical Floral Forms

By Elizabeth Art Candy

Located in FISTERRA, ES

This square wall-mounted sculpture features a dense surface of hand-molded clay spheres in assorted sizes and colors, arranged into compact floral-like clusters. Flower Bubbles (202...

Category

2010s Pop Art

Materials

Clay, Spray Paint, Board

Diane, John Kacere
Diane, John Kacere

John KacereDiane, John Kacere, 1979

$1,800Sale Price|20% Off

Diane, John Kacere

By John Kacere

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: John Kacere (1930-1999) Title: Diane Year: 1979 Edition: A.P.; 200, plus proofs. Medium: Lithograph on Waterford paper Size: 19 x 28 inches Inscription: Signed by the artist ...

Category

1970s 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.