pop art

POP ARTBy: Tanja Dimovski, Rachael

Barrie, & Brianna Zmuda3rd hour

Influence:-Duchamp’s fountain piece

-Is this really art?-Height of Abstract Expressionism-Marketing and Advertisement-DADA

THE BEGINNING OF POP ART:

-Britain 1950s-Independent Group

-Material Culture-Celebrated United Generation of

Shopping-Expressed Optimism after hardship

British Pop Artists

Founders of Independent Group:~Richard Hamilton~Eduardo Paolozzi

~Pauline Boty

Techniques:

-Silk screen printing-Encaustic-Collages-Benday dots-Sculptures-grid (serial repetition)

JASPER JOHNS

-Encouraged to draw by his grandma-His childhood was bleak

-Joined the army, after he came back he was determined to be an artist

-Destroyed his old paintings- wanted a fresh start

-Dropped out of art school and moved to New York where he met

Rauschenberg

1954-55~ Flag

1955~Target

1959~False Start

1961- Map

0 through 9-1961

Robert Rauschenberg

Birth name: Milton Earnest Rauschenberg Drafted into WWII, saw his first paintings

while stationed in California Painter, sculptor, print maker, dancer,

choreographer and composer. Famous for “combines” or assemblages

of sculpture and painting. His work often poked fun at abstract

expressionists

“Charlene” 1954

Charlene 1954

“Monogram” 1955-1959

“BED” 1955

“Black Market” 1961

“Estate” 1963

ANDY WARHOL

-King of Pop Art.

-Failed most classes in Art School.-Commercial Artist.

-Second hand images of celebrities and consumer. products and made

them interesting.-Mysterious

-“The Factory”-Retired from art, but made films.

The American Supermarket

1962~ Campbell’s Soup Cans

1962~Coca Cola

1962 Marilyn Diptych

Marilyn Diptych 1962

1963~Elvis

ROY LICHTENSTEIN

-Real-estate Broker-Spent much of his free time designing

model airplanes-Studied fine art at Ohio State University

-Entered World War 2-Early work: Hint of Americana,

Expressionistic, Cubism-Romance and War

The Kiss- 1962

1963~WHAAM!

Drowning Girl 1963

1965~M-Maybe Girl

1977~Portrait

AMERICAN POP ARTISTS:

~Claes Oldenburg

~George Segal

~Jim Dine

James Rosenquist

Tom Wesselmann

Reactions:

~Did not answer the questions they asked…~Unwilling to give meaning to their work…~Mocked Abstract Art…~Geared toward youth…~No originality…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deRMRh8Zjgg

Results:

Makes us question and celebrate consumer culture and the media.

Challenges us to see world in a new way.

Changes the way art is made and the role of the artist.

INSPIRED:

~Optical Art

~Javacheff Christo (Running Fence)

~Bridget Riley~Tyree Guyton