The Luminaries and Forefathers of Pop Art Canvas

Behind the production of most, if not all, pop art canvas is, more often than not, inspired by a pure and commercial motive. By responding to the availability of modern-day technology, such as, but not limited to, graphic and design software and printing devices, those who are able to produce complementary and even supplementary pop art canvas are rewarded handsomely. If most of those who produce pop art canvas today are contemporaries, who are conscious about the monetary advantage of being economically and efficiently responsive to the needs of the time, then it is proper and apt to recognise those who had strived to distinguish pop art as a technique to other exclusive form of expression.

Known as one of the true advocate of the relativism of pop art, Jasper Johns had created paintings that are of a testament that an experience is open and receptive to interpretation as an untainted canvas. Johns primarily believe that the actual process of painting involves being able to portray and show than to speak and determine what is supposed to be said.

Most people see John Jasper as a true expression of the pop art: an allowing person who would rather let a person experience than to actually teach him how. As an artist, he had primarily advocated that doing is better than thinking. Johns had experienced a sadness and loneliness as a child as his parents were forced to abandon him. He believes that this experience had been his foremost source of inspiration as an artist. And he ‘certainly believe that everything [he did are] attached to [his] childhood’.

Contradictory Combination: The Art of Robert Rauschenberg

A known ‘time colleague’ of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg had emerged in the urban setting of America in the 1950s as an artist who had seen the beauty of combining and merging a number of rather contrasting and yet unusually complementary materials in order to form a story.

It was on the onset of the commencement of his journey as an artist that he had been assessed to stride a different direction: primarily providing and dictating as the creator of what his creation is determined to do. His works are highly and ultimately precise and straightforward that it would seem impossible for an observer to have conceived of an interpretation apart from how the artist would want his work to be understood.

One of the most noted works in his career is Combine series, on which he ably made the border between painting, sculpture, and other forms of art in a work that can be deduced to be a sample of the urban life in New York. His works as an artist include painting, sculpture, papermaking, and photography, amongst others. The relativism in the choice of medium to which pop art canvas had been known for can also be credited to Rauschenberg and his extensive vision of how art could not be limited to oil in canvas and walled museums.

A Lesson Learned

Pop art canvas had been able to present how technology co-exists and re-enforce art. With technology, the contemporaries of pop art canvas are able to effectively and efficiently produce art pieces in a rate that may have been seemingly impossible before. But if there is a lesson that the luminaries of pop art wish to impart to today’s generation, then, it is their belief that art is limitless and boundless.