What is this type of art called?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ6jjfSL-wQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2x1q_K1BaI

is it pop art or what ? O_o

Answer 1

These videos do have elements of poster art from the seventies and eighties....pop art draws from popular culture so i guess these videos do that in the way that they borrow imagery and styles from posters/advertising.

i can see small elements of Roy Lichtenstein in one of the vids, other elements of graffiti, Richard Hamilton..... if you wanted some names to google... ad yes these belong to the pop art movement.

This could open up a can of worms on the definition of art, the art/design/illustration boundaries, but im guessing with your short question you just wanted a short answer? ;-)

So in short...I tend to see these vids as borrowing imagery from art to produce videos that illustrate in someway the song, even become a form of advertising for the songs, and are made with a pop art style but with technology available now, rather than within the defined art movement we usually think of. :-D