IT'S JUST ONE MORE EVOLUTION, BUT I LIKED *

As it happens with many other styles, which develop as an answer to other ones, Pop art wasn't an exception. In this case, it arose as an alternative to the abstract expressionism that caused so much fury in the USA , in the decade of the 50's. Its intimate, gestural and introspective style clashed with the precepts suggested by artists as Andy Warhol. His proposal was as daily as possible: reality .
Figures from the cinema, comics, drinks, detergents, soups, tickets…they will form part of the new artistic imagery. Art will lower the standards in order to include the simplest and most typical objects of American daily life .
Who could imagine that a tin of soup could be the protagonist of a painting?. From the first avant-garde artists, with characters as Marcel Duchamp, art had never been as close to people .
Maybe it was easier for him than for Duchamp because of his advertisement origins that, as well as Roy Lichenstein, made his work a means of investigation for his interest in art, or maybe it was having Jasper Johns or Rauchenberg making the way…..the thing is that modernity in art wouldn't have been the same without Warhol.

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Patricia Soriano Barroso (Madrid), graduated in Art History at Complutense University of Madrid and expert in the field of Contemporary Art, has published numerous articles on magazines and portals specialized in this field, as “Ubicarte.com” (2002), “Articuarios.com” (2002) or “Andalucía Única” (2002), beside realizing articles and various jobs of monitoring expositions for the magazine “Arte y naturaleza” (2003) and “Arte 10.com” (2003-2004). At the same time, she kept contacts with the press departments of different museums, foundations and galleries .