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How Pop Art changed the world, a video explaining the evolution of Pop Art

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1947 Eduardo Paolozzi produces what is often considered to be one of the first works of true pop art, I was a Rich Man's Plaything. This collage even features the word “pop” itself, emerging from a gun.

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Tate. 2021. ‘I was a Rich Man’s Plaything’, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, 1947 | Tate. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1952 The Independent Group calls Bunk! was created. Eduardo Paolozzi held the first meeting. The group where Influenced by Italian Futurism, Dada and Surrealism, the group's name emphasised its independent stance. They primarily reached the public through their immersive and collaborative exhibitions, beginning with Parallel of Art and Life in 1953.

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Group, I., 2021. Independent Group Movement Overview. [online] The Art Story. Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

The Pop culture of the 1950's was very inspirational for these new artists. Pop music was starting to become very popular.

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1956 Richard Hamilton, one of the first Pop Art artists famous 'Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing?' pop art collage goes on display in the 'This is Tomorrow' Exhbition

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Tate. 2021. ‘Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing? (upgrade)’, Richard Hamilton, 2004 | Tate. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1958 Lawrence Alloway was the first to coin the term “mass popular art,” which quickly shortened to “Pop art,” Alloway was a critical supporter of emerging postwar American art. He was a leading member of the independent group

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The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. 2021. Lawrence Alloway | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1961 Andy Warhol pivotal piece in his career was this art inspired by Coca Cola bottles. British Artists start to collaborate with American artists and help to bolster the style's prominence on the art scene.

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Whitney.org. 2021. Andy Warhol | Green Coca-Cola Bottles. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1961 Roy Lichtenstein first came to the Pop art scene. Allan Kaprow, an old friend and organizer of art “happenings,” introduced Lichtenstein to other artists with similar interests, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. The next year Lichtenstein painted Look Mickey. It was a turning point. Lichtenstein finally rejected abstract expressionism and its emphasis on brushstroke, gesture, and the artist’s mark. He also turned from its elusive “subjects”—abstraction and expression—to clear-cut images of popular culture. Lichtenstein quickly emerged as one of the most important artists in the new pop style.

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Nga.gov. 2021. Roy Lichtenstein, Look Mickey, 1961. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1962 Pop Art was introduced at the MOMA in New York for the first time. It was called Symposium at the MOMA and was the first pop art exhibition in New York.

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Moma.org. 2021. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1963 Roy Lichtenstein's WHAAM! art goes on exhibition. This was one of his most famous pieces and was a peak in his career. It was inspired by comic books.

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1962 Andy Warhol created the Marilyn Monroe diptych shortly after she passed away. Half of the Marilyn diptych was heavily pigmented while the other half was coloured in black and white. Overall, the work was a commentary on the relation between Monroe’s life and death. In 1967 he created series of screen printing Marilyn Monroe

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Masterworksfineart.com. 2021. Andy Warhol Marilyn Monroe. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1964 exhibit The American Supermarket, a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. were created by six prominent pop artists of the time including the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. Warhol's painting of a can of Campbell's soup cost $1,500 while each autographed can sold for $6. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is

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Supermarket, P., 2021. Pop Art Exhibition: The American Supermarket. [online] World History Project. Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

Andy Warhol's Silk screen printing technique used in his later artwork

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1966 Yves Saint Laurent was the first designer to burst with the trend in her Fall / Winter collection when she launched the Mondrian dress in her collection entitled “Pop Art”, launched in 1966. Showing that fashion and art can unite, and that the result of this can be quite satisfactory.

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The Genealogy of Style. 2021. YSL’s Pop Art Dresses. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1968 Andy Warhol was shot by Feminist Valerie Solanas who tried to assassinate him. Warhol was declared dead for half an hour but came back to life. He was left with life changing injuries. Many say this is when pop art of it's time ended.

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1966 Andy Warhol (who began his career as a fashion illustrator) had been painting Campbell's soup cans since 1962. Fashion quickly embraced the spirit of Pop, playing an important role in its dissemination. The paper dresses of 1966 - 67 were throwaways, open to advertising and the commercial.

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Metmuseum.org. 2021. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1975 The philosophy of Andy Warhol was published. Ghost written by Pat Hackett it was all about Warhol's life as an artist in the evolution of Pop Art.

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1982 The New York Academy of Art was founded in 1982 by artists, scholars and patrons of the arts, including Andy Warhol

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Art, N., 2021. About New York Academy of Art | Mission, History + More. [online] New York Academy of Art. Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

2014 Moschino Fall Ready to wear collection. Modern fashion brands have been inspired by pop art artists in the recent collections. Moschino have taken inspiration from Andy Warhol

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Nast, C., 2021. Moschino Fall 2014 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show. [online] Vogue. Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

2011 Lisa Perry is adding some pop art to your ready-to-wear. The mod designer has partnered with the estate of Roy Lichtenstein to create a limited-edition capsule collection of dresses featuring three of the artist's most famous images

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Harper's BAZAAR. 2021. Lisa Perry Introduces a Lichtenstein Line. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

2017 Pop art has evolved into the modern world we are still seeing new pop art artists all the time. For example Coco Davez.

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Coco Dávez. 2021. Coco Dávez. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021].

1963 Patrick Caulfield's most famous piece 'still life with Dagger' was exhibited. He was an up and coming Pop Artist who focused on objects and still life drawings in his work.

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Tate. 2021. ‘Still Life with Dagger’, Patrick Caulfield, 1963 | Tate. [online] Available at: [Accessed 30 September 2021].

2013 Exhibition at the Tate comparing and contrasting Patrick Caulfield's work with Gary Hume a young British Artist. Pop art in the recent years has been used to contrast other artists work.

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1916 Hannah Hoch's darkly playful Dada Dolls where created. She was likely influenced by writer Hugo Ball, the Zurich-based founder of Dada, given Höch's doll costumes' resemblance to the geometric forms of Ball's own costume worn in a seminal Dada performance at the Swiss nightclub Cabaret Voltaire. This was one of her first famous pieces.

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1930 Hannah Hoch Untitled, From an Ethnographic Museum. They are said to have been inspired by a trip to an ethnographic museum with her partner Til Brugman. Another important piece in her career.

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AnOther. 2021. Hannah Höch's Reimagining of Indigenous African Artefacts. [online] Available at: [Accessed 5 October 2021].

2018 Sara Serna a modern collage artist who uses magazines' fashion illustrations and newspapers in her work. She works both digitally and physically. Her collages follow a vintage, antique aesthetic.

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Cargocollective.com. 2021. Sara Serna. [online] Available at: [Accessed 5 October 2021].

1986 Keith Haring was an artist that was inspired by political and cultural issues in the world to create murals and art in his neighbourhood. He was an activist for many causes including HIV and AIDS. His art always portrayed a deeper meaning and message, he was trying to educate the poor neighbourhood he lived in on wider issues in the world. This is his 'Crack Is Wack' mural he was trying to tackle the drug abuse issue in his area.

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Popxartist. 2021. Famous Paintings Keith Haring an American social activist - Popxartist. [online] Available at: [Accessed 7 October 2021].

1983 Keith Haring Fertility Suite prints where created. This is one of Haring's most powerful tributes to Women Hood. Haring uses pregnant figures dancing in an energetic way to show recurring theme of fertility. This set of prints is significant as Haring was a big activist for AIDS and HIV.

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1936 Corita Kent graduates from Los Angeles Catholic girls High School and enters the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, takes Sister Mary Corita as her religious name.

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Corita.org. 2021. About Corita | Corita.org. [online] Available at: [Accessed 23 November 2021].

1952 Corita Kent wins first prize in both the Los Angeles County print competition and the California State Fair for the lord is with thee.

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1966 The Los Angeles Times names Corita Kent one of nine Women of the Year.

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Corita.org. 2021. About Corita | Corita.org. [online] Available at: [Accessed 23 November 2021].

1986 Cancer is found again, this time in Corita Kent's liver. Corita dies from cancer September 18. She leaves her unsold works and copyrights to the Immaculate Heart Community.

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Corita.org. 2021. About Corita | Corita.org. [online] Available at: [Accessed 23 November 2021].