Artists from 1950-1985

Looking at art from 1950-1985, I enjoy looking at pop art. For an artist from 1950-1985, I chose Larry Rivers, a pop art artist from the Bronx, NY. Larry Rivers is considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" of pop art because he was one of the first artists to really “merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction”. My favorite artwork of his, is Tanfastic from 1966. I also enjoyed looking at artwork from Jim Dine, an American pop artist. In 1962 Dine's work was included, among other pop art artists, in the ground breaking New Painting of Common Objects. My favorite piece by him is “Study for This Sovereign Life”, it was an oil painting made with sand in 1985. I think this piece is very creative and the color is very vivid.