Pop Art

Pop ArtBased their work on images from Times Square neon signs, the mass media, and advertising.

Pop ArtPop art made icons of the crassest consumer items like hamburgers, toilets, lawnmowers, lipstick tubes, and celebrities.

Pop artist made art impersonal, reproducing Coke bottles or Brillo boxes in a slick, anonymous style.

Pop ArtPop became as much an overnight marketing phenomenon as a new artistic movement.

Andy Warhol- The Pope of PopHe would mass produce images like Marilyn or Campbell’s Soup cans in an assembly-line fashion, repeating them by silkscreen duplication.

Campbell’s Soup Cans by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol- The Pope of Pop“Once you see Pop you can’t see America in the same way.”

He was trying to make a point about the loss of identity in industrial society.

In his multiple images, endlessly repeated as in saturation advertising.

Marilyn by Andy Warhol

The Birth of Venus by Andy Warhol

Roy LichtensteinParodied the mindless violence and sexless romance of comic strips to reveal the inanity of American culture

The Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein

Whaam! By Roy Lichtenstein

Claes OldenburgDeveloped 3-D, large-scale blowups of familiar objects.

Believed ordinary objects contain a contemporary magic but we’ve lost appreciation of this because we focus on their uses.

Free by Claes Oldenburg

Shuttlecock by Claus Oldenburg

Flying Pins by Claes Oldenburg

Flying Pins by Claes Oldenburg

Ice Cream by Claes Oldenburg

Buried Bicycle Wheel by Claes Oldenburg

Claes OldenburgOldenburg’s soft sculptures are like 3-D versions of Dali’s limp watches.

Soft Toilet by Claes Oldenburg