POP ART

By Maijo Juncosa

What is it?• Pop art emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and

in the late 1950s in the United States.

• Popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

• Material is sometimes visually removed from its

known context, isolated, and/or combined with

unrelated material.

- Pop art is aimed to employ

images of popular

emphasizing the banal or

kitschy elements of any

given culture, most often

through the use of irony.

- Much of pop art is

considered incongruent.

Known artists and painters

ANDY WARHOL• Warhol is the central

figure of the American Pop Art movement.

• He started his career as a commercial artist, advertising for local and national companies through his humorous spin on his illustrations.

• Andy Warhol was a workaholic.

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Claes Oldenburg

• Famous for his live

artworks displayed all

around the world,

international landmarks,

Claes turned the world

around taking Pop Art to a

whole new level…3D!!!

Roy Lichtenstein

• Comic adaptations.

• Has lived a very colorful life as a family man, an educator, a war soldier and an artist.

• His most famous works of art were the large scale comic-type ones complete with the dots similar to the ones in comic books.

Peter Blake• Is known as one of the

best British Pop Artists.

• Much of Peter Blake’s art is based on advertisements, wrestlers, and music hall entertainment and includes many collaged elements.

Let’s become Pop Artists!

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