POP ART

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POP ART

• Making the common into the extraordinary.

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What is Pop Art?

• 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.

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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.

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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 1960s, Warhol constructed
  artwork featuring American products such as
  Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca-Cola 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
  up-and-coming young artists, connecting them with
  his inner circle of art patrons. After his death
  one of his paintings sold for over 100 million.

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Andy Warhol Paintings
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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.

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Jasper Johns Paintings
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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.

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James Rosenquist
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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.

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Roy Lichtenstein Paintings
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Work cited

• www.warhol.org
• www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Art
• www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/jasper-j
  ohns/about-the-painter/54
• www.jimrosenquist-artist.com
• www.notablebiographies.com/Ki-Lo/Lichtenstein-Roy