pop art
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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