Pop Art vs Surreal

The above image was supposed to be pop art, and the bright turquoise colour lends itself that way but looking at the definition of pop art it probably doesn’t really fit the description:

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

However, I added some imagery which could potentially turn it into pop art (pop culture and advertising):

Or would these be considered surreal?

Coca-Cola Cubism

 

Here is my first attempt at cubism, inspired by one of my favorite photographers David Hockney.

David Hockney, Pear Blossom Highway (1986)

David Hockney was a pioneer of photo-montage, which involves taking multiple photos of the same scene at different angles/vantage points and then adding them together in a collage. This was easy for me to replicate. I took about 50 photos of a vending machine from all different angles and then pieced them together to recreate the image. I ran them through Lightroom first and applied a Cross Process 3 preset-filter. I then imported them into Photoshop 1 by 1- with each photo on their own layer. The hard part was placing each photo within the frame to match up with the other photos but the good thing about cubism is that you don’t have to be precise! I used the spot healing brush tool to fix up a couple of images that overlapped and didn’t fit in with the overall image.