POPULAR

ART
1950s-1960s
 WHAT IS POP ART?
 Most popular art movements of the Modern
Era.
 Art form that reflected a return to material
realities of people’s everyday life. “Pop”, return
to popular culture.
 Relies on extracting material from its context
and isolating it with other subjects
contemplation.
POPULAR ART TIME MOVEMENT
1950S-1960S

 The term Pop-Art was invented by

British curator Lawrence Alloway in
1955, to describe a new form of
"Popular" art - a movement
characterized by the imagery of
consumerism and popular culture.
POPULAR ART TIME MOVEMENT
1950S-1960S

 Pop Art is a direct descendant of

Dadaism in the way it mocks the
established art world by
appropriating images from the
street, the supermarket, the mass
media, and presents it as art in
itself.
POPULAR ART TIME MOVEMENT
1950S-1960S

 This happened with the transition from

Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art.
 Mid-1950s in Britain but was present in
United States by late 1960s
 By the 1960’s, the subject matter and artistic
forms of Pop Art, as well as the rock music of
the time, reflected the cultural characteristics.
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
 Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular
media and products. Image
 Usually very bright colors (red, blue, yellow,
green). Image
 Flat imagery influenced by comic books and
newspaper photographs. Image
 Rejection of abstract expressionism. next
THREE COKE BOTTLES, 1962
BY: ANDY WARHOL
'NUMBERS IN COLOR', 1958-59
JASPER JOHNS
 LOOK MICKEY! , 1961
BY: ROY LICHTENSTEIN
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
 Images of celebrities or fictional
characters in comic books,
advertisements and fan magazines. image
 Irony and satire
 Innovative techniques

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Marilyn Monroe
By:
Andy Warhol
“EIGHT ELVISES”, 1963
ANDY WARHOL
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
Painting
The colors used in pop art generally
quite bright, pure and without a lot of
nuances, we could say flat. Mainly
acrylic paint is used.
'Numbers in Color',
1958-59
JASPER JOHNS
-In an encaustic and
newspaper on
canvas
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
Sculpture
 Manual and totally handmade, by means of molds in
which fiberglass is placed, and then color is added.
 Based on the daily reality of the moment (mass
culture that is born from the reproduction industry).
 Simple and recognizable images are sought and taken
to category of art.
Lipstick on
Caterpillar Tracks ,
1969-1974

-is a weathering steel

sculpture by Claes
Oldenburg.
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
Architecture
Their forms have freedom and are full of
color for the way to reflect stridency with
sense and spontaneity.
KUGGEN, UNIVERSITY HUB AT THE CHALMERS CAMPUS
LINDHOLMEN LOCATED IN GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN
POP ART CHARACTERISTICS
Music
• Written by known individuals, usually
professionals, and does not evolve through
the process of oral transmission.
• “Pop” music has come to mean the
constantly changing styles derived from the
electronically amplified music form known
as rock and roll.
MUSIC ARTISTS
The Beatles
MUSIC ARTISTS

Elvis Presley
MUSIC ARTISTS

Aretha Franklin
MUSIC ARTISTS

Steve Wonder
POPULAR ART
WORKS
PAINTINGS

"CRYING GIRL", 1963

Roy Lichtenstein
Medium: Enamel Paint
 PAINTINGS

MARILYN MONROE
1962
BY: David Warhol
Medium: Acrylic paint
on canvas
Location: Tate
 PAINTINGS
"THREE FLAGS" 1958
By: Jasper Johns
Medium: Encaustic
Painting
Location: Whitney
Museum of American Art
 PAINTINGS

Eight Elvises- 1963

By: Andy Warhol
Medium:
Silkscreen Ink
Location: Private
Collection
 SCULPTURES
HEAD WITH BLUE
SHADOW 1965
by: Roy Lichtenstein

Medium: Painted Ceramic

 SCULPTURES
FLOOR HAMBURGER
1962
By: Claes Oldenburg
Medium: acrylic on canvas
filled with foam rubber
and cardboard boxes
Location: Art Gallery of
Ontario, Toronto, Canada
 SCULPTURES
THE BUS DRIVER, 1962
By: GEORGE SEGAL
Medium: Plaster over
cheesecloth; bus parts including
coin box, steering wheel, driver's
seat, railing, and dashboard, over
wood and cinder blocks
Location: The Museum of
Modern Art, MoMA Highlights,
New York
 ARCHITECTURES
The Happy Rizzi
House in Germany

by: James Rizzi

 ARCHITECTURES
Big Donut Drive- In,
805 West Manchester
Boulevard, Inglewood,
California, 1955
by: Jim Heimann
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POPULAR ART
NOTABLE ARTISTS
 ANDY WARHOL
 Andrew Warhola, August 6, 1928 -
February 22, 1987
 Known for: Printmaking, painting,
cinema, photography
 Notable work: Chelsea Girls (1966
film)
 Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966
event)
 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962 painting)

 Marilyn Diptych (1962 painting)

 RICHARD HAMILTON
 24 February 1922 - 13
September 2011
 Nationality - British
 Known for: Collage,
painting, graphics
 Notable work: Just what is
it that makes today's
homes so different, so
appealing?
 JASPER JOHNS
 Born: Jasper Johns Jr.
May 15, 1930 (age 89)
Augusta, Georgia, U.S.
 Nationality: American
 Known for: Painting,
printmaking
 Notable work: Flags,
Numbers, Maps,
Stenciled Words
MILTON ERNEST RAUSCHENBERG
 Born: October 22, 1925
Port Arthur, Texas
 Died: May 12, 2008 (aged
82) Captiva, Florida
 Known for: Assemblage
 Notable work: Canyon
(1959), Monogram (1959)
EVELYNE AXELL
 Born: 16, August 1935
Namur, Belgium
 Died: 10, September
1972 (aged 37)
 near Gent, Belgium
 Known for: Painting,
happenings
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