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Pop art

  1. 1. Pop Art Once you “got” Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again. -- Andy Warhol
  2. 3. Pop Art <ul><li>Pop Art was an art movement in the late 1950s and 1960s that reflected everyday life and common objects. Pop artists blurred the line between fine art and commercial art . </li></ul>Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964,  AWF
  3. 4. “ Pop Artists did images that anybody walking down the street could recognize in a split second…all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.”— Gretchen Berg. Three Coke Bottles, 1962,  AWF
  4. 5. <ul><li>The Pop artists moved away from Abstract Expressionism which was the “in” style of art in the 50s. The Abstract Expressionist evoked emotions, feelings and ideas through formal elements such as: </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Line </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Color </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Shape </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Form </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Texture </li></ul></ul>Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950 Carnegie Museum of Art; Gift of Frank R. S. Kaplan/  ARS
  5. 6. <ul><li>Pop Artists used common images from </li></ul><ul><li>everyday culture as their sources including: </li></ul>Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiec e, 1962 <ul><li>Advertisements </li></ul><ul><li>Consumer goods </li></ul><ul><li>Celebrities </li></ul><ul><li>Photographs </li></ul><ul><li>Comic strips </li></ul>
  6. 7. Pop Artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those found in: <ul><li>Billboards </li></ul><ul><li>Murals </li></ul><ul><li>Magazines </li></ul><ul><li>Newspapers </li></ul>Campbell's Soup II, 1969,  AWF
  7. 8. <ul><li>Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using new materials in their artworks including: </li></ul><ul><li>Acrylic Paints </li></ul><ul><li>Plastics </li></ul><ul><li>Photographs </li></ul><ul><li>Fluorescent and </li></ul><ul><li>Metallic colors </li></ul>Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I I, 1963
  8. 9. <ul><li>As well as new technologies and methods : </li></ul><ul><li>Mass production </li></ul><ul><li>Fabrication </li></ul><ul><li>Photography </li></ul><ul><li>Printing </li></ul><ul><li>Serials </li></ul>Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962,  Claes Oldenburg
  9. 10. <ul><li>Pop art was appealing to many viewers, while others felt it made fun of common people and their lives. It was hard for some people to understand why Pop Artists were painting cheap, everyday objects, when the function of art historically was to uphold and represent culture’s most valuable ideals. </li></ul>Listerine Bottle , 1963,  AWF
  10. 11. Andy Warhol was one of the most famous Pop Artists. Part of his artistic practice was using new technologies and new ways of making art including: <ul><li>Photographic Silk-Screening </li></ul><ul><li>Repetition </li></ul><ul><li>Mass production </li></ul><ul><li>Collaboration </li></ul><ul><li>Media events </li></ul>Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes installation,
  11. 12. Warhol appropriated (used without permission) images from magazines, newspapers, and press photos of the most popular people of his time Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963,  AWF ©2006 Life Inc.
  12. 13. Warhol used the repetition of media events to critique and reframe cultural ideas through his art Jackie paintings, 1964,  AWF
  13. 14. Warhol took common everyday items and gave them importance as “art” He raised questions about the nature of art: Knives , 1981,  AWF What makes one work of art better than another? Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964,  AWF
  14. 15. Pop artists stretched the definitions of what art could be and how it can be made. “ The Pop idea, after all, was that anybody could do anything, so naturally we were all trying to do it all…” --- Andy Warhol photo by Hervé Gloaguen
  15. 16. The art world today reflects many of the ideas, methods and materials initiated by the Pop Art movement. Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991 Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, NY In Untitled , 1991, Barbara Kruger uses the iconography of the American flag and hard edge graphics to pose a series of provocative questions about American cultural values. In Rabbit, 1986 , artist Jeff Koons cast a mass-produced inflatable Easter bunny in highly polished stainless steel. The sculpture became iconic of art in the 1980s. Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986,  Jeff Koons