Is Andy Warhol considered the father of Pop Art?

The Pop art movement is a cultural movement linked to the 1960s. It is present in many artistic fields such as painting and illustration, but also sculpture, design, architecture and comics. Its origin dates back to the early 1950s in England under the leadership of Richard Hamilton or Eduardo Paolozzi. The movement is rooted in the foundations of the very recent consumer society in the Western world. Naturally, this cultural proliferation was exported to the United States and met with great success there.
One of the peculiarities of the movement initiated by the forerunners of the English "The Independent Grou p" is the relation to the subject of the work. Indeed, subjects often drawn from popular culture are in fact opposed to the elitist culture of art. In essence, the material lacks its usual context for viewing.

> Andy Warhol emblematic master of pop art 

 

 

The artist was born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928 in Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. While mostly known for his graphic work, he has also worked as a writer and director, but also as a music producer. He evolved within his New York studio Factory, creating thousands of works and organizing cultural evenings that made the heart of the movement beat.

 

The son of a Slovak coal miner, Warhol came from a working-class background during the Great Depression. Schooled in 1933, he was reached in 1937 by Sydenham's Chorea (the dance of Saint-Guy).
This diagnosis imposes on him the rest and isolation he spends with his mother, listening to the radio and collecting photos of movie stars.
At the very end of the 1940s, Warhol obtained his BA in High School in Pittsburgh. It was during these years that he developed his technique of stamped drawing. With his diploma in hand, he landed a job as an advertising designer for Glamor magazine. In 1952, Andy Warhol had his first exhibition in New York. It was also during these first years of activity that he sharpened his artistic approach mingled with inspirations from his activity as an advertising designer and the emerging artistic movement.
 

Under the impetus of its English initiators, the Pop art movement swept the world in the mid-1950s.
It was at the very beginning of the 1960s that Warhol began to be clearly associated with the movement, in particular with his series of paintings inspired by comics. In 1962, Andy Warhol participated in the first major manifestation of Pop art in the United States. Alongside many American and international artists, the New Realism movement finds immediate resonance in mass culture. Although steeped in his past as a commercial designer, he fully claimed his belonging to the art at this time.