POP ART/MONA LISA

POP ART

POP ART is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain. But became very popular in the 1960s. When it became a true art movement in New York City with artists like Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Pop Art uses images and icons that are popular in the modern world. Pop Art is art made from commercial items and cultural icons such as product labels, advertisements, and movie stars. In a way, Pop Art was a reaction to the seriousness of abstract expressionist art. There are a number of ways that artists use these items to create art such as repeating the item over and over again, changing the color or texture of the item, and putting different items together to make a picture. There were lots of artists who adapted these ideas such as  Roy Lichtenstein. Who was one of the first artists to develop the style POP ART. He drew comic-like paintings. Andy Warhol was also one of the most famous pop artists. He created pictures and then repeated the object, or person. 

Mona Lisa

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect  musician, mathamatition, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist , cartographer, botanist and writer. During da Vinci's 67 year life he painted the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman. Which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world." The painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It is oil in a poplar panel. It's believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506, although Leonardo may have continued working on the Mona Lisa as late as 1517. It was acquired by King Francis 1 of France and is now the property of the French Republic. It is on permanent display at the Musee du Louvre in Paris since 1797. The Mona Lisa's expression is open to interpretation. Not until 2005 was the identity of Mona Lisa's subject fully understood. Though years of speculation have suggested the true identity of the paintings subject.The painting is now behind bullet proof glass because the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre in France in 1911. Pablo Picasso was on the original list of suspects questioned and jailed for the theft. But he was later exonerated. For two years, the masterpiece was thought to be forever lost. However in 1913, Italian patriot Vincenzo Perugia was arrested for the crime of stealing the famous painting, and the original artwork returned to its home in the Louvre. The Mona Lisa has survived for six centuries without ever having been restored. A trait very unusual when considering the time period of the piece. 
By Grace
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