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If your home is suffering from drab walls that are in need of a pop, pop art is going to be your art best friend. This art literally lives up to its name as it tends to feature bold colors and mod design that leaps off from the canvas. Pop art can make any bleak and barren room come alive with its fun and vibrant design. Here are rooms in your home that could use a bit of pop art from some awesome Pop Art artists.

Stephen Fishwick In The Home Office

The office is a space that is always in need of a bright pop to stimulate the brain and create a positive and encouraging workspace. Stephen Fishwick’s piece “It’s All Relative,” is sure to get your brain juices flowing as it features Albert Einstein done is grey scale with tones of blue and flecks of pink, orange, and yellow.

It's All Relative - Einstein

Stephen Fishwick

Roy Lichtenstein In The Laundry Room

Possibly one of the greatest forerunners of the Pop Art Movement, Roy Lichtenstein’s artwork features comic book style renditions done up in bold black lines and bright popping primary colors. His piece, “Washing Machine,” that seems to be ripped straight from the pages of a comic book, features a female hand shaking a yellow box of laundry detergent into the washing machine, it’ll help get the laundry done. For another classic Lichtenstein that would make a great addition to both a laundry room wall or anywhere else in the house, is Lichtenstein’s piece, “Thinking of Him” that features a woman weeping as she thinks of a distant man.

Washing Machine

Roy Lichtenstein

Andy Warhol In The Kitchen

One of the most popular contributors to the pop art movement, Andy Warhol’s iconic artwork is recognizable from a mile away and is a remarkable addition to any bare kitchen wall, or really any wall in your house. Consider Warhol’s famous Pop Art rendition “Campbell’s Soup I (Tomato), 1968.” It’s a piece of art that screams in the kitchen and stands out with its pops of red and crisp white. If you’re looking for even more color, “Campbell’s Soup can, 1965 (pink & red)” or “Campbell’s Soup can, 1965 (green & purple)” add even more pops of color.

Campbell's Soup I (Tomato), 1968

Andy Warhol

Keith Haring In The Kid’s Room

Fun and full of love, Keith Haring’s classic Pop Art work features nondescript stick figure like outlines of people interacting. With a big red heart blooming out of two people in the art piece “Wedding Invitation” to the funky melding of shapes, colors, and persons in the work “Untitled-Connected” Keith Haring’s artwork is the perfect addition to liven up any children’s room.

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Keith Haring

While only five rooms were mentioned in our roundup here, it’s must be said that we think that every room in your house could benefit from a showcasing a bit of Pop Art. Fun, funky, and doused in a whole lot of color, Pop Art will make any room in your home suddenly feel a whole lot lighter and brighter. We hope that you’ll just fall in love with Pop Art and that maybe you just can’t decide which artist to add to your wall art collection. 

Ever since the creation of the first camera in the 1800’s the new art form of photography has been rapidly growing in popularity. Once a cumbersome and difficult device to use, camera’s have advanced well beyond their original design and purpose. Photography has given way to allowing artists to capture real life instances and things that gather and evoke just as much emotion, if not more so, that paintings can produce. Photography is not limited to a canvas, as it opens up the possibilities of capturing the world as it is, documenting historical events, and offering human reflection as a picture is worth a thousand words.

Captures The World As It Is

Photography captures the wonder and beauty of the world and offers it to everyone to experience and see. World wide traveling photographers offer windows into exciting new places and environments by shrinking the world and making it more accessible. Ansel Adams was known for photographing the natural wonders of the United States in breath taking photographs that pull the viewer right into the scenery of winding canyons, as in his stunning black and white nature photograph, “Canyon de Chelly National Monument.” Wildlife photographs like Ron D’Raine’s endearing photo of two Giraffes entitled “Makulu” captures the tender heartedness of the animal kingdom.

Tropical Sunset

Documents Historical Events

Photography has aided in capturing some of the most profound moments in history so that those who may not have been able to experience that moment may see for themselves the historical gravity of the time. One of the most famous photographs ever taken, Charles C. Ebbets photo, “Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper, c.1932,” forever stiles a moment in time, as construction workers take a lunch break from atop the unfinished Rockefeller Center, their feet dangling over the city of New York far below during the Great Depression. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most influential and inspiring men in history, and his speeches were captured on film like in the black and white photograph “Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speaking (#8)”.  There are so many more important and breathtaking historical photographs that inspire and evoke change.

New York Firefighters/Ground Zero

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

As cliché of a saying as it is, photography produces pictures that raise question and wonder about the movement and found within a photograph. Photography has documented the human condition in its rawest and purest form. Captured in a hotel room, the scene backlit through bright curtained windows, the photograph “John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy” by Hank Wlaker, conveys the late President sitting on the edge of a bed across from Robert F. Kennedy, both shrouded in the moody dimness of a shadow. The photograph, “Hot Italian Pizza,” by artist unknown, is a beautiful representation of humanity, as an Italian pizza shop owner is captured through the neon lit and advertised window of his pizza parlor, a young woman looking over his shoulder as he works. The collection of black and white photographs is certainly worth a thousand words.

Hot Italian Pizza

It is clear that photography is a vast and encompassing art form. It has no limitations, capturing some of the most breathtaking scenery and wildlife from around the world, to documenting key scenes from important events in history. The greatest part though, is that each picture  is worth a thousands words and allows for endless wonder and interpretation to abound. No matter what style of photography you prefer, there is sure to be a photograph that you will want to proudly display.

Bird art is well loved among art enthusiasts. Birds remind us of our connection to the natural world. Different artists use birds to convey different things. Some artists emphasize the colors in the birds’ feathers. Other artists use birds to convey the mood of a particular season during the year. Sometimes bird images are combined with uplifting or humorous messages to improve the viewer’s mood.

Beautiful Colors

One way that people often use to tell bird species apart from each other is by the colors of their plumage. Artists can use the colors of birds’ feathers as a focal point against a less colorful background or, if the bird is less brightly colored, show how the bird blends into its surroundings. Examples of the former can be seen in J. P. Prior’s “Jewel Plumes” series, which shows a male peacock against a light colored, heavily abstracted background. By contrast, Albrecht Durer’s “Little Owl” is much less flashy, depicting the muted brown, gray, and cream colors in the owl’s feathers. From a collector’s perspective, the variety of available colors provides a lot of options when choosing a piece to complement the decor of a room.

Showing The Seasons

Birds can also be used by artists to portray a particular season. One way to do this is simply to show the bird in a setting that is obviously associated with a particular season. John Rossini takes this approach in “Waiting for Spring,” which features two cardinals in a winter scene. This painting also serves as an interesting use of color, as the cardinals’ red feathers contrast with the more subdued whites and browns that compose much of the rest of the scene. Another way to portray a season is to show birds with seasonal flowers. “Blue Birds and Dogwood” by Elaine Vollherbst-Lane does not appear to indicate any particular season, but the presence implies a spring setting, since that is the time when dogwood flowers are at their peak.

Positive Messages

People are often fascinated with birds in part because of the flight capabilities of birds. This leads people to associate birds with air and the sky, which are associated with ambition and inspiration in many cultures. Sometimes artists will combine images of birds either in flight or perched above the ground with inspirational text. For example, Lori Deiter includes a spiritual poem next to an image of a bald eagle with its wings fully spread out as a metaphor for the spirits of deceased loved ones ascending to the afterlife. Other artists take a more whimsical approach. Marla Rae’s “Owl Always Love You” shows two cartoon-style owls perched on a tree branch with a full moon in the background and the title below the branch.

As you can see, birds are the subjects of diverse styles of art and even used in different ways. The colors of birds’ feathers can contrast or blend in with the rest of a scene. Sometimes the birds can be combined with other things that indicate a particular season, which also emphasizes the natural world connection mentioned previously. Other artists use birds’ association with the sky and inspiration to incorporate uplifting text into their bird art pieces. Any way you look it at, bird art includes many pieces that any art lover would be proud to display.