Pop art and popular art, the core lies in “popular, reproduction and dissemination”, from a certain point of view, many works of pop art can be seen in the shadow of other artists’ works, or some people think that pop is a direct secondary creation and dissemination of other artists’ works, and the details of popular culture are also the characteristics of pop art. Some of the details of popular culture are magnified and copied, and American art scientist Robert H
ughes has also pointed out that “Pop art is far from being popular art; it is created by highly trained specialists for a wide audience.”
Take Andy Hall’s “Marilyn Monroe” as an example, at first glance people may think that it is simply a direct appropriation and reproduction of Marilyn Monroe’s film and television images, but on closer analysis, including the context of the era, we can easily find that Andy Hall has taken the images from the mass media and arranged the basic elements repeatedly It was this characteristic monotony, boredom and repetition that struck a chord of indifference, emptiness and alienation in contemporary commercial civilization, including later, when Andy Hall continued to create a large number of “social portraits” in the same way, such as the dollar bill Andy Hall continued to create a large number of “social portraits” in the same way, such as dollar bills, Elvis Presley, Mickey Mouse, etc.
I believe that visuals are not completely disconnected from each other, but how they are used and recreated is the important point, for example, Andy Hall’s “social portraits” allow us to directly see the original appearance of the material taken through his works, and because of this, they form a more intuitive and strong contrast with the appearance shown after creation.