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How Pop Art Emerged1950s: Independent Group (IG) - Britain

Mid-1960s: America

Followed Abstract Expressionism

Consumer boom

Popular CUlture = Pop Art

CharacteristicsBright colors

Flat imagery

Funny & Light hearted

Graphic style

Collage

Everyday items

Roy Lichtenstein

1923-1997

“Pop Art looks out onto the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of

something, it looks like the thing it self.”

~ Roy Lichtenstein

HistoryBorn in New York

He didn’t have an art class

Attended Ohio State Fine Arts program

Gave up career to paint full-time

Influences

Picasso

Cezanne

Abstract Expressionist

Other Pop Art artist

TechniquesBenday Dot

Thick black dots

Primary colors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVsfWZyH6Ts

5:30

Look Mickey (1961)

Whaam! (1963)

Drowning Girl (1963)

In the Car (1963)

Andy Warhol

1928-1987

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

~Andy Warhol

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

HistoryFrom Pittsburgh

Collected autographed pictures

Was diagnosed with Sydenham Chorea

Carnegie Institute of Technology

Commercial Industry

InfluencesCommercial industry

Roy Lichtenstein

Autographed photos

Techniques

Silkscreening

Printmaking

Photography

Campbell’s Soup (1961)

Marilyn Diptych (1962)

Double Elvis (1963)

Jasper Johns

“Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.”

~Jasper Johns

History Studied at the University of South Carolina.

Grew up in Augusta Georgia.

Fought in Korean War

Influences Marcel Duchamp

Techniques Paintings

Sculptures

Prints

Flag (1961)

Map (1961)

Robert Rauschenberg

“An empty canvas is full.”

~Robert Rauschenberg

HistoryReal name is Milton Ernest Rauschenberg

Studied at the Kansas Art Institute and Academie Julian in Paris, France.

Part of Neo Dadaist and Abstract Expressionism Movement

Influences Roberts Mother

His surrounding

Techniques White,Black,Red Paintings

Combines

Dance

Retroactive II (1964)

Riding Bikes (1998)

Text

Influences Today

Fashion

Recreations of paintings

Art piece in Chicago

Influences commercial industry