Pop art - Sister Corita Kent

Pop art is an art movement that surfaced in the 1950s in America and Britain. Much of the work was from younger artist revolting against the old and the common. Instead of using traditional views and what they were taught, artists felt that modern films, advertising, packaging, music and comics for their imagination and imagery.

Sister Corita was born Freuncis Kent in 1918, she joined the order of the immaculate heart of Mary in 1936. She gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs, which were created by hand using colourful shapes and messages of love and peace. She graduated form the immaculate heart college and later left to pursue her career in art, but her old ways brought her back to the college as a tutor.