The relationship between color, shape and composition in Pop-Art painting

The word popular is a well-known and loved way of life, habits, clothing preferences, etc. among the society. used to describe the data. Since ancient times, there have been popular events or situations in societies, and the public has been indirectly affected by these events. Festivals held in ancient times, gathering in the agora squares and discussing philosophical issues during the Greek period were popular topics of the period. In addition, the work done using perspective during the Renaissance period is one of the popular images of Renaissance studies. Art movements such as Baroque, Romanticism, Realism, Fauvism, Dadaism, Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism also have their popularity in terms of style. During the historical process, there have been popular events and developments in both different subjects and artistic fields, but the transformation of such events into the language of art was realized with the Pop-Art movement. Pop-Art painting art, which started simultaneously in England and America since 1950, used the popular culture of the period as a subject. Especially in America, the rapid hearing of popular events maturing with the rapidly increasing consumption culture has become an inevitable part of social life. Pop-Art and popular culture have always developed intertwined, these two situations have always triggered each other and managed to keep itself up to date. In the introductory part of this study named "The Relationship between Color, Form and Composition in Pop-Art Painting", the subject and problem situation, purpose, importance, limitation, universe, sample and method of the research are explained. In the conceptual framework section, the formation of Pop-Art thought and the popular developments of the period were discussed, Pop-Art painting style, use of color, compositional relationship and other artistic features were evaluated. In the findings and comments section, three works by Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and David Hockney, who are the leading painters of Pop-Art Painting, in Pop-Art style are included, and the color, form and composition structures of these works are discussed and evaluated. These artists, who pioneered and added value to Pop-Art, are important in terms of reflecting the popular culture and Pop-Art aesthetics of the period. In the section of the application studies, the necessity of making applications within the scope of this thesis was mentioned and the eight works of Enes Kurt made in Pop-Art style were evaluated in terms of color, form and composition relationship. Keywords; Pop-Art, Popularity, Art of Painting, Color, Form, Composition