POP ART

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POP ART
sculpture
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What is Pop Art ?

• An idea created in the 60s by anti-establishment
  artists (who wanted to create art for the masses).

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What is Pop Art ?

• An idea created in the 60s by anti-establishment
  artists (who wanted to create art for the
  masses).
• Based on the idea that art has always, and should
  continue to reflect what is important to the
  popular culture (every-day common people).
• Should show objects that are part of the popular
  culture.
• Should use methods that are part of the popular
  culture.
• Should reflect the attitude of popular culture.

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What was popular in America?

• Mass production and Industrialization
• assembly lines, plastics (comic books)
• Throw away, disposable products
• plastic, cardboard (Coke bottles and soup cans)
• Celebrities, movie stars, athletes
• Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Kennedy

These are the things art should be about and be
made of.
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Andy Warhol

• Major innovator of the idea of Pop Art.
• Used Screen-Printing to create images
• It was an industrial, common means of mass
  production.
• It was cheap, fast and disposable (like Pop
  Culture).

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Perhaps Andy Warhols best know imageThe
Campbells Soup can.He created many many of
these images, in singles and series.
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He did however, also create sculpture.
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Claus Oldenburg

• Other artists during the same time period also
  created Pop style work, including much sculpture.

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ROB RAUSHENBURG

• Helped popularize the idea of the readymade.
• The found object as art because of presentation.
• The way its was shown or presented to the
  public was more important than what it was.

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• The ready made...

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Riding Bikes Berlin
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MERET OPPENHEIM

• A member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s
  along with Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and other
  writers, film makers, musicians and visual
  artists.

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MARCEL DUCHAMP

• A French artist whose work is most often
  associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist
  movements.
• Duchamp signed this urinal and placed it on the
  wall of a gallery, saying it was art because he
  said it was, and presented it as art.

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MARCEL DUCHAMP

• He pushed the idea of making people look at
  familiar objects in new ways.
• Examining an object based on its form, not its
  function.

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Your task...

• Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular
  culture)...
• And turn this object into a piece of art.
• Make people look at it differently by
  presentation and/or modification.
• Emphasis its form over its function. It doesnt
  matter what it does as much as what it looks like.

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Your task...

• Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular
  culture)...
• And turn this object into a piece of art.
• Make people look at it differently by
  presentation and/or modification.
• Changing its physical appearance to alter the way
  people look at it.

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PESKABOOM

• Watch the two videos by Pes to see some examples
  of everyday objects seen in new ways and given
  new life.