He returned to Paris for a brief period to serve as First Painter to the King under Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, but soon returned to Rome and resumed his more traditional themes. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors. Pop Art has become one of the most recognizable styles of modern art.Today in history On this day in 1594, Nicolas Poussin was born Nicolas Poussin was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Pop Artists celebrated the commonplace, things people were already familiar with in their daily lives and they sought to raise pop culture and commercial images to the same level as fine art. It's subjects were identifiable and mostly drawn from mass media and pop culture such as celebrities. Pop Art on the other hand was a shift in the completely opposite direction from Abstract Expressionism. It created an entirely new world of art where what the piece meant to one person wasn't necessarily what it meant to the next.
Abstract art forced the viewer to really look at the painting, to determine what it meant to them, what emotions they felt. Abstract Expressionism came along and asked why? Why does the subject of a painting have to be distinguishable? Why can't I just paint what I feel and what comes to me in the moment? Jackson Pollack and his "paint drippings" that were created by placing a canvas on the floor was unheard of. You may not have understood what was painted, but you could tell what you were looking at. Even Surrealist paintings had distinguishable figures, meaning you can tell what was being painted. In Abstract Expressionism artists challenged traditional ideals of what was deemed art, that art even had to represent something. Both Abstract and Pop Art was about creating monumental pieces that expressed individual freedom.
The movement set the stage for America's dominance of the international art world and was, by nature, absolutely American in spirit. Abstract and Pop Art represented a shift in art and America finally challenged Paris as a leader in modern art.
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