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What is Pop Art?

Pop Art appreciates popular culture, or what we also call “material culture.” It does not critique the consequences of materialism and consumerism; it simply recognizes its pervasive presence as a natural fact.

Pop Art the Movement• Pop Art was originally a U.S. and

British art movement in the 1950s and 60s

• Artists in Great Britain began including American pop figures in their works as a sort of tribute to the relatively new nation’s growing economy and post-war optimism. American artists moved in a decidedly different direction, taking a more critical look at their own culture.

How is Pop Art Characterized?

• Attention on familiar images/objects of pop culture

• Interest in mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products

How is Pop Art Characterized?

• Emphasizes flatness and frontal presentation, bright and bold colors (red, blue, and yellow).

• They use mechanical and other deliberately inexpressive techniques that imply the removal of the artist's hand and suggest the depersonalized processes of mass production.

How is Pop Art Characterized?

• Themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture

• Advertisements• Comic books• Celebrity images• Mundane Cultural objects

Andy Warhol

Commercial artist who became known for his silkscreens of celebrities and everyday objects.

Andy Warhol work continues to sell for millions every year. His obsession with celebrity and mass production has influenced many of the most successful contemporary artists. But his legacy reaches far beyond the art world. The Warhol brand is instantly recognizable, widely reproduced, and at home in both high art and popular culture.

Andy Warhol

What is branding?

One of the best definitions of brand I’ve seen from the Tronvig Group. To them, a brand is what sticks in your mind associated with a product, service, or organization – whether or not , at that particular moment, you bought or did not buy.

Andy Warhol

Andy WarholCampbell’s Soup Can (32), 1962

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andy WarholGreen Marilyn, 1962.

Roy Lichtenstein

Created art with a Comic Book styleColors are basic, black-outlinedSkin colors created with BEN-DAY DOTS…

What are Ben-Day Dots?

Ben-Day dots are always of equal size and distribution in a specific area. Back in the day, pulp comic books used Benday Dots in primary colors to inexpensively create the secondary colors such as flesh tone.

 

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy LichtensteinM-Maybe, 1965.

How did he create the “Dots?”

At first, Roy dipped a plastic bristled dog-grooming brush into the paint to make the dots. Later, he used metal stencils, then paper stencils, for painting his Ben-Day dots. This new technique became Roy’s unique trademark style.

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy LichtensteinDrowning Girl, 1963.

Ads in the style of Pop Art (2013)

Ads in the style of Pop Art (1990)

Product Design in the style of Pop

Art (2013 Target celebrating 50th Anniversary

Warhol Campbell Soup)

Ads in the style of Pop Art (2012)

Ad and Product Design in the style

of Pop Art (2009)

Ads in the style of Pop Art (2009)

Ads in the style of

Pop Art

Summary

Taking an everyday object and turning it into art is what the Pop Art movement was all about.

Other Notable Pop ArtistsBilly Apple Sir Peter Blake Derek Boshier Patrick Caulfield

Alan D’

Arcangelo Jim Dine William Eggleston

Erró Marisol Escobar Red Grooms Richard Hamilton

Keith Haring David Hockney Robert Indiana Jasper Johns Allen Jones Alex Katz Nicholas Krushenick

Yayoi Kusama Richard Lindner John McHalePeter Max

Takashi Murakami Yoshitomo Nara Claes Oldenburg Julian Opie Eduardo Paolozzi Peter Phillips Sigmar Polke Hariton Pushwagner Mel Ramos Larry Rivers James Rosenquist

Ed Ruscha George Segal Colin Self Aya Takano Wayne Thiebaud Andy Warhol John Wesley Tom Wesselmann

The Assignment

Objective Using your own imagery, to create your own.

Three tools are dominant if you want to make Comic pictures: the Pen Tool, Noise Filter, and the Color Half Tone Filter.

The AssignmentThe requirements for Lichtenstein Inspired

Piece:• One of your own images (CANNOT BE OFF OF

THE INTERNET!!!)• Has at least ONE person In It• The Image has been cropped like a

Lichtenstein (uncomfortably close) and NOT centered

• Create line art of the person or persons in Black

• Different widths and length in the lines

The AssignmentCont. requirements for Lichtenstein Inspired

Piece:• Colored the all part of the line art• Benday dots (Red) are used for all areas that

are skin• NO TEXT OR WORDS!• The background is one of the 2 techniques of

Pop Art – Solid Color or Gradient