Across
- 2. In the United States, pop style was a return to this style of art. It is art that depicted the visual world in a recognizable way and the use of hard edges and distinct forms after the painterly looseness of abstract expressionism.
- 3. Pop Art was a descendant of this movement.
- 7. Pop art can be seen as one of the first manifestations of this movement or art style.
- 8. Critics who were horrified by the pop artists’ use of such ‘low’ subject matter and by their apparently uncritical treatment of it.
- 11. According to this Pop Artist, “Pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second – comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles”
Down
- 1. One of the most important themes in Pop Art.
- 4. A pop artist who listed, in 1957, the characteristics of pop art in a letter to his friends.
- 5. Although they were inspired by similar subject matter, __________ pop is often seen as distinctive from American pop.
- 6. An art movement that emerged in the 1950s and flourished in the 1960s in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture.
- 9. This artist is associated with many artistic movements, from Cubism to Dada to Surrealism, and paved the way for later styles such as Pop (Andy Warhol), Minimalism (Robert Morris), and Conceptualism (Sol LeWitt).
- 10. Plenty of pop artists took on this group of items as subject matter: Andy Warhol focused on Campbell's soup cans.