pop-art
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Pop-Art
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What is Pop-Art? Emerged in mid 1950’s
Art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, esp. as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values
Based on popular themes in the culture like comics, advertisement, and entertainment
Pop-Art Artists Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Claes Oldenberg
David Hockeny
Andrew Warhola August 6, 1928 –
February 22, 1987
Coined the expression ”15 minutes of fame”
Studied commercial art at the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University
American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop-art
Themes
Hollywood celebrities
Bohemian street people
Wealthy patrons
Distinguished intellectuals
Influences Highest price
ever paid for a Warhol painting is $100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises
Advertisements
Popular/Controversial things
Sexuality
Medium/Media Paint
Blotted ink
Campbell’s Soup
Computer
Drawing
Television
How Warhol’s Art Fit into
Pop-art Andy Warhol’s
Art fit into pop-art because it was very experimental, modern, colorful, and show a lot of culture!