All Pop Art Comic-Derived Paintings

Paintings from the Pop Art movement that take their image, and often their lettering, from comic book panels, enlarging a mass-produced printed picture into a work for the gallery wall. These works keep the conventions of comic art, such as bold outlines, flat areas of color, speech or thought bubbles, large onomatopoeic words and the dot patterns of commercial printing, while cropping or reworking the source panel into a single canvas or a diptych. They sit under Abstract and Modernist Paintings because they use flattened, graphic modernist means to question the line between high art and popular culture. The group does not include Pop Art works whose subject is advertising or consumer goods, Pop Art portraits of celebrities, which are gathered under Portraits, or comic art made for print publication rather than for exhibition.