Pop Art!

Another one of the main styles we were told to base our assignment on was Pop-Art. Pop-Art was probably the one art style I knew/have seen the most of . The artists take a ordinary picture and modify it into a comic-book art style that looks like it has been drawn with crayons and pastels, this is a very dramatic look and can enable to artist to translate massive emotions/actions easily with just a few colour strokes, as you can see on this picture below, the woman has a white strip by her right eye which shows she is distressed or worried.


Pop art is a very cool and visually attractive art style for me, I think that it takes the basics of other art styles and just makes the message obvious which is the main objective when advertising with this style, which is why it could be very useful for a Science Recruitment Poster, bright, colourful, and eye catching with a simple scene to portrait a message quickly and successfully.

In this second picture of popart examples I found one that specifically shows Science in relation to popart so I myself could get a better idea of how I was going to execute the design process. It clearly shows how easily an area of science can be displayed by just colour schemes and contrasting colours. I like the fact that you can immediately get the impression of what the poster is about without any text, this will be a great colour scheme to follow when producing my poster.

Again I wanted to find out more about the history behind Pop-art, it seems that It originated in Mid-1950's in Britain and Late-1950's in the US, and further supports my idea that Popart is mostly used in Logos and product labeling as it gets peoples attention and is just genuinely visually appealing.

Image 1 Source: http://www.osnatfineart.com/images/girl-with-hair-ribbon.jpg
Image 2 Source: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/pop-art-objects-science-medical-9543217.jpg