Bria & Elise

How Pop Art Emerged1950s: Independent Group (IG) - BritainMid-1960s: AmericaFollowed Abstract ExpressionismConsumer boomPopular CUlture = Pop Art

CharacteristicsBright colorsFlat imageryFunny & Light heartedGraphic styleCollageEveryday items

Roy Lichtenstein

1923-1997

“Pop Art looks out onto the world. It doesn’t look like a painting of

something, it looks like the thing it self.”

~ Roy Lichtenstein

HistoryBorn in New YorkHe didn’t have an art classAttended Ohio State Fine Arts programGave up career to paint full-time

Influences

PicassoCezanneAbstract ExpressionistOther Pop Art artist

TechniquesBenday DotThick black dotsPrimary colors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVsfWZyH6Ts

5:30

Look Mickey (1961)

Whaam! (1963)

Drowning Girl (1963)

In the Car (1963)

Andy Warhol

1928-1987

“An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have.”

~Andy Warhol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWKeuEhJFGA

HistoryFrom PittsburghCollected autographed picturesWas diagnosed with Sydenham ChoreaCarnegie Institute of TechnologyCommercial Industry

InfluencesCommercial industryRoy LichtensteinAutographed photos

TechniquesSilkscreeningPrintmakingPhotography

Campbell’s Soup (1961)

Marilyn Diptych (1962)

Double Elvis (1963)

Jasper Johns

“Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.”

~Jasper Johns

History Studied at the University of South Carolina.Grew up in Augusta Georgia.Fought in Korean War

Influences Marcel Duchamp

Techniques PaintingsSculpturesPrints

Flag (1961)

Map (1961)

Robert Rauschenberg

“An empty canvas is full.” ~Robert Rauschenberg

HistoryReal name is Milton Ernest RauschenbergStudied at the Kansas Art Institute and Academie Julian in Paris, France.Part of Neo Dadaist and Abstract Expressionism Movement

Influences Roberts MotherHis surrounding

Techniques White,Black,Red Paintings Combines Dance

Retroactive II (1964)

Riding Bikes (1998)

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Influences TodayFashionRecreations of paintingsArt piece in ChicagoInfluences commercial industry