questions about pop art?

[Mister.Proto]

im not really familiar with working with pop art
but I understand that it is to repersent anything popular in the general society and must be painted (acrylic?) with bright colors?

so if I drew a car and painted it several bright colors would that be pop art?

[kev ferrara]

It probably would be pop art. I would add that giving it a crisp graphic look would help too. And the colors don't need to be natural at all. It would also help if you included a brand name, some logo, or some other graphic associated with commercial enterprise. The portrayal in "fine art" of commercial advertising and marketing techniques is considered "ironic" and "cool" and "hip." Any mass produced imagery, if you painted it in a graphic posterized fashion would be Pop Art. Roy Lichtenstein did comic book panels. Andy Warhol did the Campbell's soup can. There's a big clothespin sculpture in Philadelphia. Etc.

And don't draw the car freehand. Trace it, so it is exact. The sterile precision of the graphics is part of the "statement" of pop art.

[Mister.Proto]

It probably would be pop art. I would add that giving it a crisp graphic look would help too. And the colors don't need to be natural at all. It would also help if you included a brand name, some logo, or some other graphic associated with commercial enterprise. The portrayal in "fine art" of commercial advertising and marketing techniques is considered "ironic" and "cool" and "hip." Any mass produced imagery, if you painted it in a graphic posterized fashion would be Pop Art. Roy Lichtenstein did comic book panels. Andy Warhol did the Campbell's soup can. There's a big clothespin sculpture in Philadelphia. Etc.

And don't draw the car freehand. Trace it, so it is exact. The sterile precision of the graphics is part of the "statement" of pop art.

trace it huh? ok :)
well what do you mean by a "crisp graphic" look?
and so im thinking of a alfa romeo or some sports car like that

some colors I might do are very bright and flash colors to repersent the speed maybe?
but besides color do I need a background?

[kev ferrara]

google: pop art

[Ilaekae]

As Kev mentioned, the secret to Pop is "Irony." Making everything/anything mundane into a "monumental" or "Holy" image is the primary requirement, and yes, the precision and attention to minute detail is a major part of it. Think "What a cheap piece of throw-away crap! Let's mount it on a pedestal in the front yard for everyone else to admire, too..." and convince yourself you have to be serious about it.