Pop art

 

Pop art is fun art made from simple things. It’s of things like product icons, product labels, ads, famous people, and country icons. It uses things that are popular and modern like celebrities, soft drinks, lollies, comic books etc. Pop art is a picture of something simple e.g. a can of soup and you don’t have to think more into what the picture is or means.        

 There are different ways to do pop art. You can repeat the item over and over, change the colours or textures, or put different items together to make a picture. It’s normally very bright and colourful.

 Pop art started in the 1950’s and was really popular in the 1960’s. It started in the UK but became popular in New York. Where artists like Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns made it their specialty.  People who did pop art wanted to make art part of everyday lives.         

 

 

Mona Lisa                      

 

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. He started painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 and it took him about four years to do. It’s painted in oil paints and is 77 cm long and 53 cm wide. It is the best known piece of art in the world. It’s also the most visited and most written about art in the world. The painting hangs in the louvre museum in Paris and has since 1797.  One of the things that make it so famous is that an employee stole the painting from the louvre museum in 1911.

 

The original name of the painting was Monna Lisa shortened from Madonna which means my lady. But there was a spelling mistake where they left out one n to make it Mona Lisa and that stuck.  There are three different versions painted underneath the current one.

 

Leonardo da Vinci was born on the 15^th of April in 1452. He was born in Italy.  He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and a writer. When he was 14 he was apprenticing an artist called Verrocchio. By the time he was 20 he had had his own workshop for a while and had qualified as a master artist.

 

By Georgia