pop art. jasper johns: targets, flags, numbers, letters richard hamilton: collage robert...
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Pop Art
Pop Art
• Jasper Johns: targets, flags, numbers, letters• Richard Hamilton: Collage• Robert Rauschenberg: Assemblages• Roy Lichtenstein: Comics• Andy Warhol: Silk-screen mass media + videos• Claus Oldenberg: mass media sculptures
JASPER JOHNS, TARGET WITH FOUR FACES, WOOD, CANVAS, ENCAUSTIC, NEWSPAPER AND PLASTER 1955
As Johns explained, the imagery derives from "things the mind already knows," utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.
assemblauge: recombining (assembling) “stuff” to create new meaning.
JASPER JOHNS, FLAG, 1954-55, NEWSPAPER, OIL, ENCAUSTIC
White Flag, 1955Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas
Johns, Three Flags, 1958, encaustic on canvas
Johns, Flag, (comp colors), 1965
The Seasons (Summer), 1987Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Etching with aquatint
Jaspar Johns, Field Painting, 1963/64
Roommate with Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg, Estate,1963
Richard Hamilton, Just What is it
that Makes Today's Homes
So Different, So Appealing?
1956
aesthetic of popular culturepopular art + fine artinspired by Duchamp
mass media
advertising
advertising
advertising
popular culture
popular culture
mass media
HamiltonInteriorScreenprint, 1964
Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959ASSEMBLAGE
created “combines”combining painting with sculpture
“There is no no more subject in a combine [By Rauschenberg] than there is in a page from a newspaper. Each thing that is there is a subject. It is a situation involving multiplicity.” – John Cage
*found materials in trash – recontextualization
*viewers should find their own meaning
Duchampian
Rauschenberg, Odalisk, 1955-58
"Every time I would show them to people, some would say they're paintings, others called them sculptures. And then I heard this story about Calder," he said, referring to the artist Alexander Calder, "that nobody would look at his work because they didn't know what to call it. As soon as he began calling them mobiles, all of a sudden people would say 'Oh, so that's what they are.' So I invented the term 'Combine' to break out of that dead end of something not being a sculpture or a painting. And it seemed to work."
Odalisk combines oil paint, watercolor, crayon, pastel, paper, fabric, photographs, printed reproductions, miniature blueprint, newspaper, metal, glass, dried grass, steel wool, a pillow, a wooden post and lamps on a wooden structure mounted on four casters and topped by a stuffed rooster.
Rauschenberg, Estate, 1963oil, silk screen, collage
• primary colors
recognizable images
vs.
everyday images
Rauschenberg aimed in the silk-screened paintings “to make a surface which invited a constant change of focus and an examination of detail.”
Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963,oil, silkscreen, collage
Robert Rauschenberg Collage ProjectThis project is inspired by the collage techniques and visual aesthetics of Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Hamilton. You will need to consider what images are most iconic to the 21st century (Presidents, celebrities, electronics, politics, religions, etc.). Using only newspapers and magazines, create a collage in the style of Retroactive I & Retroactive II that speaks directly to life in 2014.
Requirements: 1. Use only images from newspapers and magazines: you may need to bring
some from home…2. Project must include primary colors from oil pastels, paint, colored pencils,
etc.3. The collage must be unique and creative (think about placement of images,
texture, cropping, etc.)4. Size must be 8.5 x 11 (printer paper size)5. We will work in class tomorrow and present the following day
Roy Lichtenstein
Hopeless, 1963 Oh Jeff…I Love You, Too…But…, 1964*benday dots
Lichtenstein, M-Maybe (A Girl's Picture), 1965
Lichtenstein, Blam, 1962
Green Coca-Cola Bott les, 1962, oil on
canvas
Andy Warhol
mass produced silk screen printswere sold to fund Warhol’s independent films.
“The Factory”
repetition causes numbness
Interview
Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1965, silkscreen
Merv Griffin Interview, 1965
Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads, 1964–1969
Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, acrylic and silk screen 1962
Andy Warhol famously told Art News interviewer Gene Swenson, "The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do."
Liz #1 (Early colored Liz)acrylic and silkscreen
Warhol "was not after a picture-perfect, sharp-edged result; he wanted the trashy immediacy of a tabloid news photo."
Warhol, Elvis I & II, 1964
Independent Films by Warhol
Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger, 1981
Flesh, 1968
CLAES OLDENBURG
POP ART
one-person show at the Green Gallery, New York, 1962, stuffed and painted vinyl
Claus Oldenburg, Floor Cake, synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 1962
After watching the short video on Floor Cake, answer the following questions:
1. What are your impressions on this work of art?
2. Do you like this piece? Yes/No WHY3. What makes this sculpture POP Art?
CLAES OLDENBURG
POP ART
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks,
1969
Oldenburg, Claes, & Coosje Van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1988
Oldenburg, Clothespin, 1976
Oldenburg, Coltello Knifeship II, 1986
Oldenburg & Van Bruggen, Torn Notebook, 1992-96