Pop Art Paintings & Artworks

Featured Pop Art Fine Artists

Andy Warhol was born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia and died in 1987. After having studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York City and became a successful magazine and advertising illustrator. In paintings, and then silk screen prints, Warhol went on to produce the iconic Pop Art imagery, including soup cans, Coca-Cola, Marilyn Monroe, etc. Warhol was one of the first openly homosexual artists. [More...]

Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York City. He began studying art at the age of 16 in summer art classes, taught by Reginald Marsh, held by the Art Students League of New York, and later attended Ohio State University, where he later became an art instructor. He began producing his characteristic "cartoon" style works, featuring black outlines and enlarged Benday dots (half-tones) in the early 1960's while teaching at Rutgers University, and had his first one-man show in New York in 1962. [More...]

Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Allendale, South Carolina. He is largely a self-taught artist, attending the University of South Carolina for a year, 1947-8, and studying briefly at Parson's School of Design (in New York) in 1949. In New York, he met and collaborated with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg. Johns' paintings, often created using collage and encaustic wax, depicted mundane objects, such as an American flag, a target, the number 0 through 10, etc., that are detached from any symbolic significance. Just as in Rene Magritte's painting, where a pipe is not a pipe, in John's painting a flag is not a flag. [More...]