Appeared on 10.31.2007 - Pop Art translation

Appeared on 10.31.2007: POP ART (English translation!):


Pop Art. Artistic tendency that has its origin in the debate started in the G.B., in the fifties of '900, on the mass communication and on images production to it connected. The painter R. Hamilton in '57 gave a first definition of "Pop Art", doing reference to the myticisation of the objects and of the pictures of great consumer in the industrial Society. (...) The Pop Art was after full developed for all '60 years, characterizing, in general, for losing of every reference to the subjective maturity and to the lyric-drammatic gest, and for the great utilisation, outwardly neutral, of pictures and of objects part of the mass communication and to the daily life.
The Pop Art has had its launch in Europe at the "Biennale" of Venice of '64, which was the occasion for USA critic to underline! the meaning contribution of American ccontemporary art to the definition of "new esthetic". The Pop Art influence, as inalienabil point of reference, neither in terms of contrapoising or of confront or of direct inspiration, it was infact decisive for European develop of artistic research of the following Decade. Artists of Pop Art, are: E. Paolozzi, J. Tilson, R. Smith, P. Blake, P. Caulfield, A. Jones, R.B. Kitoj.
The moment of passage of the informal figurative culture to Pop Art, is charactered from neo-dadaist production of R. Rosenberg, where an "objective figuration" is in the contest of a painting rule still linked to the astract espressionism.
The major representatives of the Pop Art are considered J. Dine, C. Oldenberg, G. Segal, J. Rosenquist, R. Lichtenstein, T. Wasselmann, A. Wahrol.


Source: "Le Garzantine", Enciclopedia Universale, "Il Giornale", Vol.
"Arte".