Modern Art

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Modern Art
Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.
--- Andy Warhol
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Pop Art Andy Warhol

• Pop art is a visual art movement that began in
  England in the late 1950s and was very big in the
  United States in the 1960s.
• Pop art focuses on a single object or combines it
  with other objects and is characterized by themes
  from POPular culture, such as advertising, comic
  books, and supermarket products.
• Andy Warhol is the most well-known pop art figure
  in America.
• Warhol took every day objects and made art out of
  themeven out of himself!

Andy Warhol (1928 -1987)
Andy Warhol Self-Portrait (1986)
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Pop Art - Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol liked to paint things that were
popular with American people He said, Whats
great about this country is that America started
the tradition whereyou can be watching TV and
see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President
drinks Coke, Liz Taylor a famous actress drinks
Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke,
too.
Andy Warhol Liz Taylor (1965)
Andy Warhol Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)
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Pop Art - Andy Warhol

• Andy Warhol once said, My idea of a good picture
  is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
• This is one of his many pictures of the actress
  Marilyn Monroe. What is unusual about this
  painting?
• Warhol is well known for saying, In the future
  everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
• Do you think you will be famous for at least 15
  minutes some day? How would Warhol paint the
  famous YOU ?

Andy Warhol Green Marilyn (1962)
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Andy Warhol Flowers (1970)
Pop Art - Andy Warhol

• Warhol liked to paint ordinary things, too.
• He used a silkscreen technique to make multiple
  copies of the same image.
• Then he would make that same image different each
  time by using different colors.
• What do you think of these silkscreen paintings?

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Pop Art - Andy Warhol

• This is a painting! What is famous about this
  image?
• Imagine if you painted a painting of an everyday
  thing that is in your house (think of
  something!). Is that art?
• Andy Warhol would say it was!

Andy Warhol Campbells Soup Can (Tomato) (1968)
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Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein self-portraits (1977-78)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)
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Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire (1964)
Roy Lichtenstein was an American artist
originally from New York. He was influenced by
jazz music, cartoons, and comic book art. The
paintings above, which are large (approx. 5.6 x
4.6 feet each), are displayed together like a
comic strip. Is the artist telling a story here?
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Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein

• Lichtenstein made many of his paintings with a
  Ben-day Dots printing process, named after
  illustrator and printer Benjamin Day. In this
  technique, colored dots are closely-spaced,
  widely-spaced, or overlapping depending on the
  color and optical illusion needed.

Roy Lichtenstein M-Maybe (A Girls Picture)
(1965)
Roy Lichtenstein Magnifying Glass (1963)
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Roy Lichtenstein Girl with Ball (1961)
Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein

• This painting was based on a flyer advertising a
  vacation resort in the Poconos, New York.
• Lichtenstein said I use color in the same line.
  I want it oversimplifiedanything that could be
  vaguely sort of red becomes red.
• How does the artist use the colors red, black,
  and white in this painting ? What does the
  yellow make you think of ?

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Roy Lichtenstein Mustard on White (1963)
Pop Art Roy Lichtenstein

• What is this a painting of?
• How does the artist use the color white in this
  painting?
• How does he use the color red?
• Is black important?
• Do you like this painting?

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Pop Art Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud Tennis Player (Self Portrait)
1985
Wayne Thiebaud (TEE-bo), born 1920
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Pop Art Wayne Thiebaud

• Wayne Thiebaud is another American artist who is
  associated with Pop art, although his art started
  a little before the Pop art movement.
• Thiebaud liked to use heavy pigment and
  exaggerated colors for his subjects.
• The colors and shadowing he uses are similar to
  cartoons and advertisements.
• What colors does the artist use for shading and
  shadows here?

Wayne Thiebaud Girl with Ice Cream Cone 1963
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Pop Art Wayne Thiebaud
Wayne Thiebaud Pies, Pies, Pies (1961)
Wayne Thiebaud Cakes (1963)

• Thiebaud is best known for his paintings of
  objects found in diners and cafeterias, such as
  pies and pastries.
• Where do you see shadows in these paintings?
  What different colors did he use to paint the
  shadows?

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Pop Art Wayne Thiebaud
Thiebaud Three Machines (1963)
This is probably Thiebauds most famous painting.
How does it make you feel?
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Pop Art Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg (born 1929) and toothpaste tube
sculpture
Claes Oldenburg Self Portrait (1958)
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Pop Art Claes Oldenburg
Not all Pop art was painting or two-dimensional
(flat)! Claes Oldenburg, an artist from
Sweden, created all kinds of sculptures from all
kinds of materials. At first, art critics and
other people ridiculed (made fun of) Oldenburg
for his art, but now most people see it as
whimsical and fun. What do you think?
Claes Oldenburg Toilet (Hard Model)
(1966)Varnish and felt-pen on corrugated
cardboard and wooden construction 111.8 x 71.7 x
83.8 cm
Claes Oldenburg Soft Toilet (1966)Vinyl
filled with kapok, painted with liquite and wood
132.08 x 81.28 x 76.2 cm
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Claes Oldenburg Two Cheeseburgers with
Everything (1962)Burlap soaked with plaster,
painted with enamel
Pop Art Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Typewriter Eraser Scale X (1999)Painted
stainless steel and fiberglass
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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen Dropped
Cone (2001)
Pop Art Claes Oldenburg

• This is an actual Claes Oldenburg sculpture on
  top of a building in Cologne, Germany!What do
  you think ? !

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Art Response

• Fold a sheet of paper in half and then in half
  again so that you have 4 sections. Can you think
  of an every day object (something simple) and
  draw 4 different versions of it using pop art
  colors? Try it Andy Warhol Style!
• Draw a picture of your favorite dessert or candy.
• If you could do a big crazy sculpture of
  something somewhere, what would it be? Where
  would you put it? Draw a picture of your idea.

Robert Indiana