Pop Art

"Pop is everything art hasn't been for the last two decades. It's basically a U-turn back to a representational visual communication, moving at a break-away speed...Pop is a re-enlistment in the world...It is the American Dream, optimistic, generous and naïve." - Roy Lichtenstein

                            

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

 You can see alot of pop art in comic books!

Hard Edge

Hard-edge painting is known for its economy of form, fullness of color, impersonal execution, and smooth surface planes. The term "hard-edge abstraction" was devised by Californian art critic Jules Langsner, and was initially intended to title a 1959 exhibition that included four West Coast artists - Karl Benjamin, John McLaughlin, Frederick Hammersley andLorser Feitelson. Although, later, the style was often referred to as "California hard-edge," and these four artists became synonymous with the movement, Langsner eventually decided to title the show Four Abstract Classicists (1959), as he felt that the style marked a classical turn away from the romanticism of Abstract Expressionism.

Hard-edge painting can either be abstract with an illusion effect

Or hard edge could be a person...hard-edge can also relate a lot to pop art. Here are some examples. This hard uses bright colors and mostly straight lines

Graffiti

Graffiti is a freestyle art that is often found on bridges, sides of buildings, on trains, or basically anywhere in public. Graffiti is very creative art that uses bubble letters and anything to relay a message using spray paint.

 This picture speaks louder than words can....Most graffiti art relays a message like this picture..others can just simply express art itself.

 Most of the time this is the type of Graffiti you will most likely see around your area or one the sides of structures like buildings and bridges

This kind of Grafitti is more complex and uses alot of paint! Its also important to wear a mask to prevent from inhaling to much chemicals. It takes alot of practice to get this certain soft look to the painting but is very rewarding

Folk Art 

Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. In contrast to fine art, folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic.

In these three pictures you see mostly tress, houses, leafs, anything nature like. In the last picture it is a farmer selling goods or food to make a living, back then most things where made by hand and nature was really all we had. Thats why this type of art stands for our country and reminds us of simpler times with creative nature paintings.