Transcript POP ART - Westwood Independent School District

POP
ART
Making the common into the
extraordinary.
What is Pop Art?
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Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the
mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the
United States.
 Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an
artist's use of the mass-produced visual
commodities of popular culture is closest with
the perspective of fine art.
 Pop removes the material from its context and
isolates the object, or combines it with other
objects, for contemplation.
What is Pop Art?

Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such
as advertising, comic books and mundane
cultural objects.
 It is also associated with the artists' use of
mechanical means of reproduction or rendering
techniques.
 Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art
movements that precede postmodern art, or are
some of the earliest examples of Postmodern Art
themselves.
Notable Artists of Pop Art
Andy Warhol- born in 1928, he soon
developed a talent for art at a very
early age. He faced sever childhood
sicknesses, chorea and scarlet fever
and the death of his parents in his
teens.
During the early 1960’s, Warhol
constructed artwork featuring
American products such as
Campbell's Soup Cans and CocaCola bottles, as well as paintings of
celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe,
Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue,
Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor.
He was also a big supporter of upand-coming young artists,
connecting them with his inner circle
of art patrons. After his death one of
his paintings sold for over $100
million.
Andy Warhol Paintings
Notable Artists of Pop Art
Jasper Johns born in 1930, he started drawing at the age of
three and continued throughout his life. Some of his notable
works include: Flag, Target with Plaster Casts, Three Flags,
Coathanger, Periscope, Figure Five and Titanic. At one point he
held the record for highest sold painting by a living artist at $80
million.
Jasper Johns Paintings
Notable Artists of Pop Art
James Rosenquist, born in
1933, coming from a parent
who was a painter, he was
encouraged an at early age to
perfect his skills. He won a art
contest in junior high that led to
a scholarship to study art.
Working as a billboard painter,
he had plenty of practice
working in pop culture.
Common subjects of his works
were: U-haul trailers, laundry
detergen and other household
products. A large portion of his
paintings burned in a fire that
swept across Hernando County
Florida in 2009.
James Rosenquist
Notable Artists of Pop Art
Roy Lichtenstein, born in
1923 to an upper-class
family in New York City,
art became a very
important part of his life at
an early age. After
graduating college, he
began teaching art at a
few universities. A
majority of his works were
derived from comic
books.
Roy Lichtenstein Paintings
Work cited
 www.warhol.org
 www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art
 www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episo
des/jasper-johns/about-the-painter/54
 www.jimrosenquist-artist.com
 www.notablebiographies.com/KiLo/Lichtenstein-Roy