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    Lichtenstein pop art & Warhol pop art stolen from NY home!


    2010 - 12.27

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    Authorities are ramping up their effort to solve a Manhattan mystery: Who drilled a hole into the home of a beef fortune heir and stole a collection of iconic Roy Lichtenstein pop art and Andy Warhol pop art works?

    The culprits also made off with surveillance video footage that might have caught them in the act.

    The New York Police Department released images of the personalized pop art canvas on Thursday, hoping someone might help solve last month’s crime in the trendy Meatpacking District by recognizing works like a well-known Lichtenstein pop art called “Thinking Nude.”

    Authorities estimate the five-story apartment was burglarized sometime during Thanksgiving week, when owner and art collector Robert Romanoff was away.

    Calls to Romanoff’s home went unanswered Friday.

    Also taken from the building was a Lichtenstein pop art canvas called “Moonscape,” the Carl Fudge oil painting “Live Cat,” the Warhol pop art canvases “The Truck” and “Superman,” and a set of eight signed Warhol pop art canvas prints from 1986 called “Camouflage.” They’re among the artist’s last works before his death the following year.

    Authorities estimate the artworks personifying the pop art movement, plus stolen Cartier and Rolex watches and other jewelry, are worth about $750,000.

    The Romanoff home is in a neighborhood filled with old warehouses and meatpacking companies now turned into retail and living space, restaurants and boutiques.

    Police say the thief drilled a hole through the wall of a hallway sometime between Nov. 24 and 28.

    Lichtenstein, who died in 1997, created “Thinking Nude” in 1994 — one of 40 limited-edition works that are part of his “Nudes” series based on comic-book illustrations.

    A similar personalized pop art canvas print recently sold for about $85,000 at Christie’s, according to the auction house’s website.

    Warhol’s “Superman” pop art canvas is part of his 1980s “Myths” series featuring fictional characters with mass-cultural appeal, including Mickey Mouse and Uncle Sam.

    Romanoff is heir to a beef company fortune that started as a New York City meat store opened by his immigrant relatives in 1905. He’s now president of the New Jersey-based Nebraska Meat Corp., one of the country’s biggest distributors of smoked meat that for years owned property in the Meatpacking District.

    Story courtesy of AP

    Andy Warhol – The Father of the Pop Art Movement


    2010 - 09.21

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    Many of us have heard of Andy Warhol and the Warhol pop art style that is prevalent in advertising and media. However who was Andy Warhol really? And how did he become a leading figure in the pop art movement? We profile the man and his life.

    Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents had emigrated to the United States from Ruthenia, in the Slovak Republic.

    Andy studied in the Carnegie Institute of Technology between 1945 and 1949. After his studies Andy Warhol started off as a commercial artist in New York, working for magazines such as the The New Yorker and Vogue. He also designed advertising and window displays

    His first exhibition Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote, was a cult classic and were the first reflections into the mind of this genius. Soon after in the late 50’s and 60’s he started experimenting with silk screen printing and began using newspaper headlines, celebrities and other easily recognizable images from American culture in his work.

    The term pop art or popular art came into the forefront around this time as many other artists around the world incorporated such every day things into their art. This mass adoption was what was referred to as the pop art movement.

    Some of the celebrities he featured in his personalized pop art work include Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger, Liz Taylor and John F Kennedy. The Warhol pop art style also became synonymous with modern day chic.

    These days many graphic artists around the world still emulate the classic Warhol pop art style in their works. Personalized pop art canvas studios can also be found all around the world and on the Internet.

    Besides being one of the most influential artists from the 20th century, Andy was also an entrepreneur with investments in magazine, television shows and underground classic films. He had made over 300 films for which he used many of friends as actors. Many of his films were also pornographic in nature.

    Like many great creative geniuses Warhol had an eccentric personality and was openly homosexual. He enjoyed mingling with celebrities, and kept company with many well known flamboyant individuals in the gay community. He had also used several of these acquaintances in his movies. In the later part of his life he also started wearing a silver wig. Pop art canvas prints of Andy Warhol in his silver wig are some of his more popular self portraits.

    On the 22nd of February 1987, Andy Warhol died suddenly at a New York hospital following a gall bladder operation. Andy Warhol’s works can be seen at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You will find his pop art canvas prints, personalized pop art (featuring celebrities) paintings, sketches, drawings, photographs, films and other pieces of work. The museum is a must see for all followers of the pop art movement.

    If you want to create personalized pop art canvas prints in Andy Warhol’s signature Warhol pop art style then visit PopArtPal.com for a truly unique visual experience. Our photos to pop art rendering process will create spellbinding pieces of artwork for your home/office and make great gifts for loved ones as well.

    What is the pop art movement?


    2010 - 09.10

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    Pop art which is an abbreviation of “Popular Art” seems to have emerged in the 1950s in the United Kingdom. It spread to the United States and the rest of the world over the next few decades. It is this spread and acceptance of pop art across the world that was referred to as the pop art movement. Though personalized pop art canvas pieces can be found everywhere these days, the pop art movement which remains one of the major artistic movements of the 20th century, is still not well understood.

    The pop art movement also represented rebellion and being different. For a two decade period before the pop art movement, abstract art dominated the art world, with New York City as its center. Though abstract art was a well liked art form, it presented itself with an air of sophistication that made it inaccessible to the masses.

    People in general were also getting bored with abstract and other fine art forms and the emergence of pop art at that time was a refreshing change. Not only was it new and distinct from everything else people were accustomed to, its bright and funky colors whether on pop art canvas or on advertising billboards appealed to a broad base of the public. There was no divide between fine art and commercial art any longer.

    The superior aesthetic qualities aside the other aspect of pop art that identified with audiences was its use of everyday items, images and icons to emphasize and redefine certain elements in our culture.

    Pop art started appearing in the mass media, in advertising, movie posters and even on music album covers. Art suddenly became chic and cool and many celebrities started asking artists for their own personalized pop art canvas prints. Marilyn Monroe’s pop art prints by Andy Warhol after her death still remain one of the most iconic pop art prints ever.

    Due to its association with celebrities and well known icons and objects, pop art started to become more glamorous and refined over the years. Though pop art was mass produced and did not cost much, it did manage to capture essential changes in culture and society.

    Pop art canvas pieces by well known artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are now amongst the most valuable pieces of art in the world. An Andy Warhol pop art silkscreen print called “Eight Elvises” was sold to a private buyer in 2009, for US$100 million, making it one of the top 10 most expensive paintings ever sold.

    Other classic examples of pop art were when Andy Warhol designed a pop art canvas based on the Campbell canned soup images. Roy Lichtenstein was another pop art artist who created pop art which looked like comic strips. Till this day the Warhol pop art style and the Lichtenstein pop art style are the 2 dominant styles emulated by pop artists all over the world.

    If you want to create personalized pop art canvas prints in Andy Warhol’s signature Warhol pop art style or the Lichtenstein pop art style then visit PopArtPal.com for a truly unique visual experience. Our photos to pop art rendering process will create spellbinding pieces of artwork for your home/office and make cool gifts for loved ones as well.

    Paul Gibson is a Singapore based graphic artist and also the Managing Director of PopArtPal.com. He is an ardent fan of personalized pop art canvas prints and other modern art forms. PopArtPal.com Personalized Pop Art Canvas – Turn your photos into canvas Masterpieces!