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

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Popular/Controversial things

Sexuality

Medium/Media Paint

Print

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!