Description of pop art style:

POP ART STYLE is designed to amaze people with its design. In interior design, pop art looks unusual, expressive, contrasting, bright. The main features of pop art: iridescent colors, catchy shapes, the use of plastic, repeating elements. 

The pop art style openly challenged the principles of "good design", denied modernity and its values. Pop art elevated ordinary everyday objects from the everyday world around us and images of people to the rank of works of art. Then he mixed it all with a bright color or a bizarre shape and used it as a work of art. Pop art shows itself as an emotional and energetic style, like an explosion of emotions. 

 

Pop art walls: They must be bright, and ideally, different colors and even textures. It is better to forget about harmony in the classical sense right away. One of the pop art solutions, when one of the walls remains light, two more - in contrasting bright colors, and the fourth - is made in the technique of repeatedly repeating a small pattern. 

 

Ceiling in pop art style: The number of ceiling levels is not important, on the contrary, you can play on this by making multi-level asymmetrical niches, beating it with illumination of different colors. In the case of a single-level ceiling, choose glossy finishes, whether it be a suspended, stretched or simply painted white ceiling. Glitter and gloss pop art to face. 


Pop art floor: Often left neutral, choosing a calm range and throwing all the emphasis on the interior. However, flashy floor coverings are also often used: richly colored carpet or ceramics, making it heterogeneous, but rather with a chaotic and playful pattern. Parquet should be abandoned. 

Pop art furniture: Pop art does not accept oversaturation of furniture, so limit yourself to a minimal set. Pop art furniture should be extraordinary and certainly not classic. The forms are gentle, rounded, somewhat unusual - in the style of "retro-futurism". Often used in furniture is a female silhouette, cartoon characters and celebrities. Furniture is characterized by bright colors (one, and preferably several in one item), sofas and chairs of rounded shapes typical of the 60s, pouffes and small tables, bright plastic has come into fashion. 

Decor items in the style of pop art: Pop art indulges in an abundance of details and interesting little things. The use of repetitive motifs is characteristic: posters, paintings, carpets with a replicated pattern. Bright and colorful textiles, selected in the main colors, are welcome. Various stylized plastic accessories: watches, photo frames, figurines, vases, lamps and candlesticks. In addition to plastic and textiles, you can still distinguish painted leather and bright metal (chrome) details in the interior. The most unusual items are suitable for pop art: luminous dishes, a pink toilet bowl, a lamp in the form of a superman and other extraordinary things.

Pro Tips:

1. Pop art style in the interior is definitely not for everyone. The abundance of bright and caustic colors can tire the working class, which is more pleasant to relax in neutral or pastel colors. But for those who like to shock others, in particular young people, as well as for salons or stylized cafes, the style will come in handy like no other.

2. Pop art in the interior is perfect for lovers of "hand made" (made by hand). Any whimsical thing made by your hands will become a work of art pop art. The main tools of pop art are games with size, color and quantity. Habitual and banal things are subjected to the appropriate processing of pop art, which ultimately gives rise to new entities.

3. Pop art style has a psychedelic effect. It can be achieved by using wallpapers with optical illusion effect, disappearing and appearing patterns, as well as paintings and drawings. The main thing is not to lose in all this the general comfort, especially sincere.

4. The favorite techniques of artists and designers when working on pop art interiors and pop art furniture are copying an object, changing its scale and proportions. The color scheme differs from the prototype of the real object, it is bright, juicy. Favorite technique is collage, stencil and copying.

5. Cabinets are not appropriate in pop art, as this is the most significant element in cluttering up the interior space. It is better to replace them with niches, built-in wardrobes and even podiums. For clothes, it is best to allocate a separate dressing room.

6. Pop art can be called an inexpensive style, in terms of price, not overall effect. This is the case when inexpensive furniture bought in a well-known hypermarket is suitable. It can be hand-painted and decorated using the “what is enough imagination” method. Other pop art items can be made from improvised means: a table lamp from a bottle, a pseudo mirror from CDs, a curtain from pieces of fabric or polyethylene, a picture from labels, etc. things. With all this, the main thing is to catch the line between creative creativity and a dump of incomprehensible things.

History of pop art style:

POP ART (short for popular art) is a trend in the visual arts of the 1950s and 1960s, using images of consumer products. The term "pop art" itself first appeared in the press in an article by the English critic Lawrence Alloway. Also Laurence Alloway, participated in the creation of the "Independent Group" at the London Institute of Contemporary Art. In the 1950s, this group organized exhibitions.

Pop Art originated in the mid-1950s in England as a reaction to abstract painting, which was considered too sophisticated and elitist by pop art supporters, but it reached its peak in the 1960s in the United States. The main emphasis was on change, variety, fun, rebelliousness and short-lived, disposable things, cheapness and a bet on mass consumption.

Designers got busy making things the consumer wanted, not what they needed. Mass media and advertising were the main themes of pop art, wittily glorifying the "consumer society". The objects of pop art were images of mass culture, reflecting the spirit of the era.

The first "Part" works were created by three artists who studied at the Royal College of Art in London - Peter Black, Joe Tilson and Richard Smith. But the first work to achieve pop art icon status was Richard Hamilton's collage "What Makes Our Homes Today So Different, So Inviting?" in 1956

The most famous works of pop art style: collages by Robert Rauschenberg - a combination of oil paint and clippings from newspapers and advertising publications; pictures of comics of large sizes by Roy Lichtenstein; giant cakes by Claes Oldenburg made of painted plaster, and car-sized cake slices and hamburgers made from canvas and plush, as well as the work of Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and, of course, Andy Warhol.

T-shirts with images of comics, celebrities and everyday objects are all a legacy of pop art from the 60s. Later, pure pop art was closely intertwined with the advertising business and faded away, becoming part of popular culture, but its echoes are still felt today.