A lot of people may be curious as to know what happens after they put in their order for pop art work to be done here with us. After you first place that order, you’ll then mail your pictures through regular mail. You can also scan them in if you like and then email them to us. We will then make sure that the quality of those pictures are just right to be worked over. If we need different kinds of photos from you, then we’ll simply contact you through email and let you know. Once you send another photo of yourself, you can then begin to sit back and let us work on your pop art.

It may take a week to complete the job. In most cases, it takes about 7 to 10 days and then once you’ve approved the design, we’ll then charge your account. You can get your order in as little as two weeks. If you’re ordering through the holidays, then it may take a little longer.

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“What photo should I send for pop art?

The best picture is a headshot of the pet, person or object. The best photos will have the following attributes;

1. Good light, make sure the light comes from the back of the person taking the picture. Avoid dark shadows in the face.
2. Good contrast, make sure the photo is not under exposed or overexposed

If you like, send us more than one picture so that we can let you know which one works best.

You can also send black and white pictures, if you like. If you have an old photo that you want to spark up, or originals for a special ocassion, that will be no problem. We can even single out random people in the background that you do not want to be included in your final work of art. If you choose to mail your photos, you will definitely get them back. You also have to choice of choosing your color scheme. Tell us what colors you want to use. If you like, you can send us color samples of your wall paint or your room to give us a better idea.

If you want to order art work for someone else, you have come to the right place. Just let us know the shipping address for that special person and you can even write the text for a gift card to be included. There are no excuses for a personalized gift for your loved one. we can ship anywhere in the world. If you are not located in Europe or USA, please email us for a quote based on your destination and the size of your orders. We’ll arrange to charge cost of shipping as you wish.”

Pop The New Year Off Right With Pop Art

It’s a new year and with the new year comes all kinds of new possibilities and opportunities. What kinds of new year’s resolutions do you have?

1. If you’re in business for yourself you could make a resolution to increase your sales
2. If you’re an employee, you could make a resolution to increase your skill level by 1% every week
3. If you’re a wife, you could make a resolution to make a special and unique gift for your husband
4. If you’re a husband, you could make a resolution to make a special and uniqute gift for your wife
5. If you’re a child of someone (who isn’t?) you could make a resolution to make a special gift for them


That’s where popart comes in. We create personalized and unique gifts for people here on this popart site. All you do is pick a photo that you like and send it to us to transform. Then, you can take that image and let us put it to canvas. You can even get photo prints so that you can put them into regular photo frames. You can even take the images and create Tshirts, mouse pads, coffee mugs, basball caps and more out of them. There really is no limit.

For example, if you want to surprise grandma and grandpa with something special, take all your favorite pictures of the family photo album, and send them to us to create a vintage look for them. Then, you can take them to Wal-mart and get them to create a calendar out of them. That would be the perfect gift idea for grandparents anywhere, especially if their family is scattered throughout the world. Military families especially would really be thrilled with this pop art gift idea.

Start your new year off right, by getting a personalized gift for those who you love and care for the most. Happy New year from My Popart!

One of the most exciting gifts you could create for a friend or loved one is to take your favorite photo of them and turn it to canvas. There is something special about seeing your own imagine on an art canvas. It signals that you think the world of the person that is being put on that canvas. It shows them how much you love them. How can you create a popart photo to canvas gift? Let us here, create the perfect pop art gift for you.

1. Take your favorite picture of your friend or loved one. Make sure it is clear and no shadows or blurs.
2. Next, send it to us here at mypopart
3. We’ll transform it into a popart image on canvas and even gift wrap it for you
4. Once you have received the end product, you simply give it to your loved one and watch them smile with surprise and joy

The fun thing about this kind of gift is that it’s fun to make, fun to create, fun to give and fun to receive. Who wants another boring old tie this Christmas or New Year’s? Who wants those boring gifts? I mean I’m sure we get them all the time. How about something fun this year?

Pop art is a visual arts movement of the 1950s. It started in Britain, but really rose to the top in the United States. Popart stands for Popular Art. It developed because artists began to take images from mass culture, like beer bottles, comic strips, soup cans and road signs and included them in paintings, sculptures and collages.

Mass Culture And Pop Art

Other artists started to incoroporate other kinds of objects into their paintings and art, and then began to modify them. They began to use urethane foam, acrylic paints, and plastic to create prominent images and figures. One of the biggest and most important movements, pop art influenced the work of artists that followed but also had a huge impact on the fashion world, graphics and the advertising media.

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“The historical antecedents of pop art include the works of Dadaists (see Dada) such as the French artist Marcel Duchamp, as well as a tradition, in U.S. painting of the 19th and early 20th centuries, of trompe l’oeil pictures and other depictions of familiar objects. Moreover, a number of pop artists had at times earned their living by working as commercial artists.

The pop art movement itself, however, began as a reaction against the abstract expressionist style of the 1940s and 1950s, which the pop artists considered overly intellectual, subjective, and divorced from reality. Adopting the goal of the American composer John Cage—to close the gap between life and art—pop artists embraced the environment of everyday life. In using images that reflected the materialism and vulgarity of modern mass culture, they sought to provide a perception of reality even more immediate than that offered by the realistic painting of the past. They also worked to be impersonal—that is, to allow the viewer to respond directly to the object, rather than to the skill and personality of the artist. Occasionally, however, an element of satire or social criticism can be discerned.

In the United States, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns provided the initial impetus—Rauschenberg with his collages constructed from household objects such as quilts and pillows, Johns with his series of paintings depicting American flags and bull’s-eye targets. The first full-fledged pop work was Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Home So Different, So Appealing? (1956, private collection) by the British artist Richard Hamilton. In this satiric collage of two ludicrous figures in a living room, the pop hallmarks of exuberance, incongruity, crudeness, and good humor are emphasized.”

Here’s a story about a man who could be your neighbor, your boss, your co-worker, or even the grocery store clerk. The names have been changed but the story could even be you.

“Fifi was the cutest little dog I’ve ever had. I found her at a shelter from Petsmart. When I first saw her I had to take her home with me. Soon, when I brought her home, my wife asked me why I had brought her home and that we didn’t have time for her, but I knew I would make time. After a few days, my wife fell in love with her too.

Then, one night, while browsing the Internet, I found mypopart.com. I thought “cool!” and was fascinated because Pop art was one of my favorite genres of art. When I saw that I could convert pictures of my Fifi into popart, I simply was amazed.

Then, I sent in my picture and when I got the prints back I was really excited. Now Fifi has a pop art portrait of herself right above her doggie bed in the corner of our living room. Am I crazy to put so much attention to a dog? Maybe so, but life should be about fun, creativity and passion, shouldn’t it? It’s about enjoying life, and sometimes you just have to do something a little silly, a little fun.”

It’s been a great year and it’s almost time for 2008 to roll around. Why not celebrate the new year with a big popart bang by wearing your art work.

That’s right. You can wear you popart right on your Tshirt. Just take your favorite photo, send it to us, and we’ll popart transform it. Then, once you have the copy sent back to you, you can then take it to your local Wal-Mart and make a Tshirt out of it. This is a great gift idea for kids, grown ups, family and friends alike. If you’ve just had a baby, and grandpa and grandma are excited, send them a Tshirt with the new family member’s picture on it.

If it’s your anniversary, and you want to make it special, take your favorite picture together and put it on a Tshirt. Whenever you wear it, it will signify how much you love each other.

But it’s an even better time to get into celebrating with the new year. Take a new year’s picture and let us transform it, and then make a Tshirt out of it. The uses for making your pop art gift are unlimited.

It’s no secret that people who are creative are naturally cool. That’s because they’re not afraid to transcend every day life and do something creative. How many people do you see in a given day with a pop art tshirt? Some people don’t even have a clue about art, they think it’s drawing a couple of stick figures. Stand out and be cool. Get your Popart masterpiece today!

MyPopArt decided to look back at the past year and pick out our favorite blog posts about pop art. Going through the year from January through today, we hand picked these 12 favorite blog posts about our favorite topic - Pop Art. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did:

• Art Your Way - January 26
• Wear Your Artwork! Don’t Just Hang It On The Wall - February 22
• Mypopart Has An Artist That Can Meet Your Style - March 9
• Pop Art Touches An Old Favorite - April 19
• Pop Art Thank You Cards ….. A New Take On An Old Tradition - May 30
• When Your New Arrival Pops…Art Announces It Wonderfully - June 6
• Unique Pop Art With An Everyday Price - July 12
• Pop Art Retirement - July 26
• Unleash The Pop Art In Your Pet - September 29
• Katrina’s Animal Orphans - October 19
• The Weather Is Getting Colder - Help Keep Them Warm - November 17
• My Popart: Eliminate Burnout Quickly & Easily - December 16

Do you have your favorite MyPopArt blog posts? Let us know. Thanks! And Merry Christmas.

History of Pop Art

Popart or Pop art is an abbreviation of Popular art. This is the kind of art that was started in the 1950’s Pop art movement. It used every day objects to portray certain elements of pop culture. These were elements that were primarily in television commercials and advertising commercials. The term Pop art first originated with the English critic, by the name of Lawrence Alloway. He was detailing all kinds of post war work that was focused on materialism and consumerism. It also rejected the psychological allusions of Abstract art. Pop art went on to shatter the division between fine arts and commercial arts.

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“The Pop Art movement originated in England in the 1950s and traveled overseas to the United States during the 1960s. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, both members of the Independent Group, pioneered the movement in London in the 1950s. In the 1960s, the movement was carried by Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, Allen Jones, and Peter Phillips. In the early sixties, Pop art found its way to the United States, seen in the work of Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Rauschenberg. It developed in the United States as a response to the wealth of the post World War II era and the growing materialism and consumerism in society. The most recognized Pop Artist, Andy Warhol, used a photo-realistic, mass production printmaking technique called seriagraphy to produce his commentaries on media, fame, and advertising.

Pop Art made commentary on contemporary society and culture, particularly consumerism, by using popular images and icons and incorporating and re-defining them in the art world. Often subjects were derived from advertising and product packaging, celebrities, and comic strips. The images are presented with a combination of humor, criticism and irony. In doing this, the movement put art into terms of everyday, contemporary life. It also helped to decrease the gap between “high art” and “low art” and eliminated the distinction between fine art and commercial art methods.

The movement inspired a later related style named Capitalist Realism, led by German artist Gerhard Richter.”

Popart For Pet Lovers

If you’re a pet lover and you’re looking for a unique gift idea, then this may be the most important blog you’ll read all year long. Mypopart has teamed up with Petsmart to help make a difference in the lives of many pets and animals.

Every year thousands of animals need a home

It’s true that there are thousands of animals looking for a home. Do you have kids or someone in your life that would love to have a cat or puppy? Why not make them a gift of going to Petsmart and adopting a furry friend? In addition to that, you can take a picture of that special furry friend and transform it into a popart work of art to go with the gift of giving a pet.

The great thing about it is, that you’ll not only be making a Christmas gift for your loved one, but you’ll also be giving a good home to an animal that otherwise would never have had a home.

Christmas is not about buying or receiving gifts

It is about love and making a difference. Although, we should be loving and making a difference all year, Christmas is a special reminder, because sometimes we do get caught up in life’s every day things. Mypopart strives to make a difference, and you can too.

Are you guilty of bad gift giving? If you’re the kind of person that loves to give gifts and has a lot of friends and relatives, then you may have been guilty at one point or another.

What is bad gift giving?

Bad gift giving is NOT:

1. 1. Finding the perfect gift to absolutely amaze your love one
2. 2. Finding the gift that is both cost efficient and valuable
3. 3. Finding the gift that is unique and personalized

If you’re guilty of bad gift giving, don’t worry. Mypopart has the answer for you. We have a wide variety of pop art gifts that you can create through our web site. This includes calendars, greeting cards, post cards, pictures, posters, and more.

Popart is an entire revolution in the world of art. It was started by greats such as Andy Warhol, and it synchronized the entire mass media and advertising industry with the art culture. Now you can combine your pictures or the pictures of your loved ones with this popart phenomenon.

Take a look at what some of the latest news events in popart have to say:

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“The outrageously bright colours, celebrity subjects and repetitive images are instantly recognisable the world over, and Warhol, the figurehead of the pop art movement, has proved to be one of the most influential and important artists of the late 20th century.

Andy Warhol, which is exclusive to Brisbane, is one of the most comprehensive Warhol shows ever compiled and marks the 20th anniversary of his death. It features more than 300 pieces, including paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, films, videos and installations, many on loan from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

Museum director Tom Sokolowski, a special guest at the opening, spoke frankly about his acquaintance with Warhol (”I knew Warhol for a long time but wouldn’t have considered him a friend … he was only known to maybe four or five people in his life”), and gave interesting insights into the artist’s gay relationships (”He would travel with a bevvy of boys”), his insecurities and obsessions, his often mean and manipulative personality, his dyslexia and the fact he “probably” suffered from Asperger’s syndrome which would help explain the repetitive nature of his habits and art.”