4 Characteristics((: * Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products * Usually very bright colors. * Flat imagery influenced by comic book and newspaper photographs * Characters in comic book and magazines
Artists of this time * Andy Warhol
Major developments of this time * Credit card (1950) * Car seat belts (1952) * Polio vaccine (1952)
Abstract Expressionism 1940-1960
4 Characteristics((: * Unconventional application of paint (no recognizable subject) * Dripping, smearing, slathering, and flinging lots of paint on a canvas. * Sometimes gestural “writing” loosely calligraphic manner. * Carefully filling the picture plane with zones of color that create