POP ART

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POP ART

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POP ART. The title of this art movement comes from the word popular – as in popular music, or pop music. Pop Art took its inspiration from popular culture – the culture of the populace, of the people. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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• The title of this art movement comes from the word popular – as in popular music, or pop music. Pop Art took its inspiration from popular culture – the culture of the populace, of the people.

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• It began in the late 1950s and is especially associated with the1960s. Pop art reflected everyday life and common objects. Pop artists blurred the line between fine art and commercial art.

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• Andy Warhol• Campbell’s Soup Can

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Is this fine art or just packaging?

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Richard Hamilton, a British artist and critic, referred to Pop Art, as, "popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business" – he stressed Pop Art’s everyday, commonplace values.

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• Many people loved this democratization of art. Art didn’t have to be elitist, they felt. Why not make it accessible and understandable to the masses, they argued.

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• Others felt that Pop Art cheapened the traditional function of art, which was to uphold and represent culture’s most valuable ideals.

• What do you think?

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• Pop Artists used common images from everyday culture as their sources including: advertisements, celebrities, comic strips, photographs, and consumer goods

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Andy Warhol – Marilyn Monroe

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• Roy Lichtenstein

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• Lichtenstein– Mmaybe

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• Pop Artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those found in: billboards, murals, magazines, and newspapers.

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• Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using new materials in their artworks including: acrylic paints, plastics, photographs, fluorescent colours and metallic colours.

• They experimented with new technologies and methods: Mass production, Fabrication , Photography, Printing, and Serials.

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Andy Warhol

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Warhol started out as a graphic artist creating shoe ads.

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• However, by the early 1960s he was considered the pope of Pop Artists. Part of his artistic practice was using new technologies and new ways of making art including: Photographic Silk-Screening

• Repetition• Mass production• Collaboration• Media events

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• Warhol’s studio in the 1960s in New York was known as The Factory – where, with a team of assistants, Warhol was putting out a tremendous body of work.

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The Factory was a meeting place and a magnet for artists, actors, writers, poets, musicians and bohemians of every stripe.

Warhol regularly invited people he met to drop in there and do screen tests.

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• His open door policy ended in 1968 when Warhol was shot by an irate woman whose script had not received the attention she had hoped for from Warhol.

• He came close to dying, but recovered from the gunshot.

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Warhol appropriated (used without permission) images from magazines, newspapers, and press photos of the most popular people of his time including Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Kennedy.

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• Andy Warhol• Jackie Kennedy

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Andy Warhol – silkscreen print of Jackie Kennedy

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Andy Warhol – silkscreen print of the actress Elizabeth Taylor

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• Andy Warhol• Elvis Presley• Warhol created 20

versions of this image, including a triple Elvis that sold for $37 million dollars.

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Brigitte Bardot – French actress

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• Andy Warhol• Silkscreen print of the

actress Ingrid Bergman

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Warhol took common everyday items and gave them importance as “art.” He raised questions about the nature of art. For example: What makes one work of art better than another?

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Brillo Pads

• This is a wooden sculpture, one of a series of “grocery store” subjects.

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Warhol the film maker

• Between 1963 and 1968, Andy Warhol made more than 60 films, plus some 500 short black-and-white "screen test" portraits of Factory visitors. One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. The film Eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes.

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Robert Rauschenberg

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Rauschenberg began to create what he called combines, in the late 1950s. He would assemble unlikely combinations of objects as three dimensional sculptures.

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As the Pop Art movement developed in the 1960s, he turned from three dimensional “combines” to silkscreened collages, using magazine and newspaper photographs and then painting into and over them.

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These collages allowed him to make visual statements about contemporary issues.

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• Robert Rauschenberg

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• Robert Rauschenberg• Signs

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Roy Lichtenstein

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• Drowning Girl

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Roy Lichtenstein

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In the Car – Roy Lichtenstein

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