the pop art movement

The Pop Art MovementAlyssa Rollins, Leila Haddad, and Mona Patel

Pop art is:Popular (designed for a mass

audience). Transient (short-term solution). Expendable (easily-

forgotten). Low cost. Mass produced. Young (aimed at youth). Witty. Sexy. Gimmicky. Glamorous. Big business.

This is just the beginning…

Richard Hamilton in a Letter to Alison and Peter Smithson, 16 January 1957

Origin

• Timeline: mid 1950’s to early 1970’s (time of economic prosperity)• Concept first originated in Britain in early 1950’s by the Independent

Group• The word pop has several origins• Link to Marcel Duchamp

Pop Art

• Aimed to blur the line between traditional art and popular culture (between “high” and “low” cultured art).• Themes of daily object, mass media, and repetition, everyday life• Coincided with Abstract Expressionism

Richard Hamilton, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? 1956

Andy Warhol• 1928-1987• Fashion illustrator, painter, sculptor, filmmaker,

producer of the Velvet Underground, magazine publisher, philosopher, historian, diarist, model, photographer, and archivist. • Started off as commercial artist• One of the founding fathers of the pop art movement • Themes: shoes, Campbell soup cans, Marilyn Monroe,

Brillo pads, disasters• The Factory• Shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas

Campbell Soup Cans, 1962

Gold Marilyn Monroe (1962)

Marilyn Ditych, 1962

Orange Disaster 1963

Techniques Andy Warhol Used

• Silk-screening• Repetition

Roy Lichtenstein

• Born in New York City on October 27, 1923• Grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side• Inspired by advertisements and comic strips• Bright, graphic images parodied popular culture• Died in New York City on September 29, 1997

Girl with Ball, 1961Roy Lichtenstein

“This was the first timeI decided to make apainting really look likecommercial art. The approachturned out to be so interesting thateventually it became impossible to doany other kind of painting.”

-Roy Lichtenstein

Look Mickey, 1961Roy Lichtenstein

Donald Duck: Lost and Found, 1960

Look Mickey, 1961

Drowning Girl, 1963Roy Lichtenstein

Whaam!, 1963

Bedroom at Arles, 1992

Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, 1888

Summary

• Dealt with painting, printmaking, and sculpture• Originated in the mid-1950s• Major artists in the United States include:• Andy Warhol• Roy Lichtenstein• Jasper Johns

• Major artist in Britain:• Richard Hamilton

• Difference between U.S. and Britain’s pop art is the U.S. seemed more united