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Pop Art was an American artistic renaissance that flourished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Among the most influential members of the school were Jasper Johns, Hamilton, and Andy Warhol. The school formed in reaction to the elitism and obstructionism of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and their contemporaries.
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The Pop Art font set was developed for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and is inspired by their collection of Pop Art. Artists such as Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rauchenberg sought to blur the lines between high and low art as well as the boundaries between art and everyday life. The alphabets and Extras in this set reflect that spirit.
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Pop Art developed rapidly during the 1960s. In 1960 the British artist David Hockney produced Typhoo Tea (London, Kasmin Gallery), one of the earliest paintings to portray a brand-name commercial product. In the same year Johns finished his painted cast bronzes of Ballantine beer cans. In 1961 Claes Oldenburg, an American, constructed the first of his garish, humorous plaster sculptures of hamburgers and other kinds of fast food. At the same time Roy Lichtenstein, another American, extended the range of Pop Art with his oil paintings that mimic blown-up frames of comic strips. Several Pop Artists ... produced happenings, or theatrical events staged as works of art.
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Among the Pop Art precursors mentioned by Livingstone are Dadaists like the French artist Marcel Duchamp and the German Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp became famous with his "ready-mades," everyday objects torn from their usual contexts and exhibited as art. The most shocking piece was Fountain (1917), the urinal that Duchamp had dared to declare art. Two years before, he had already "created" In Advance of the Broken Arm, a snow shovel. Duchamp took an object, "retitled it to declare its change of function from a utilitarian purpose to an aesthetic or conceptual one". It is no accident that, e.g. in 1961, the beginning of the high times of Pop, Duchamp delivered his most often quoted remarks on his ready-mades.
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