POP Art • Artists are interested in the images of mass media, advertising, comics and consumer products. • The 1950s were a period of optimism following the end of war-time rationing, and a consumer boom took place. • It was influenced by American artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and British artists such as Richard Hamilton. • These artists wanted a more popular, less academic art. • Pop Art therefore coincided with the youth and pop music phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of a fashionable, 'swinging' crowd.
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POP Art• Artists are interested in the images of mass media,
advertising, comics and consumer products. • The 1950s were a period of optimism following the end
of war-time rationing, and a consumer boom took place. • It was influenced by American artists such as Jasper
Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and British artists such as Richard Hamilton.
• These artists wanted a more popular, less academic art. • Pop Art therefore coincided with the youth and pop
music phenomenon of the 1950s and '60s, and became very much a part of the image of a fashionable, 'swinging' crowd.
POP Art• After the popularity of abstract
Expressionism this is a return to pictorial (recognizable) subjects.
• The paintings are slick; the mark of the maker (brushstrokes, etc.) are absent.
• The images are presented in a cool detached manner.
Richard Hamilton
Just What Is It That makes today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? 1956
• Richard Hamilton wrote down a prescription for Pop in 1957; he declared that Pop should be:
• Popular• Transient (short term
solution)• Expendable (easily
forgotten)• Low-cost• Mass-produced• Young (aimed at youth)• Witty• Sexy• Gimmicky• Glamorous• Big Business ...
• Part of pioneering exhibition "This is Tomorrow" by a group of Brits.
• Word Pop makes first appearance
• Chief images of later pop are compressed into the collage.
• Young Romance comic,& image borrowed from Art History (Lichtenstein)
• Package of ham (Oldenburg)
• Celebs. like Al Jolson (Warhol)
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
• Worked as illustrator for shoes. • As designer he understands how ads. create & satisfy
consumer needs.• Son of Czech immigrants in depression• Yearned for American dream of fame & fortune• Reflected in choice of subject matter (Glamour mags.,
Celebs. Commodities)• Influenced by J.J & R.R. & appropriation of mass
produced images.• Zeros in on mass production & boring repetition.
"I think everybody should be a machine."
Marilyn1962
• Photo silkscreen on canvas.
• Combines theme of Celebrity & Death.
• Marilyn image loaded with sexuality.
• She is an Object of desire, strengthened through repetition.
• Completed shortly after her death
• The doomed Beauty died at 36 of an overdose.
Saturday Disaster
1964
"When you see a gruesome scene over and over again it doesn't have an effect."
Tragedy is depersonalized through repetition.
• Picks up on subject of the public’s morbid fascination with disaster & death.
• The media's obsession with this topic satisfies a need. They exploit it.
• Warhol too exploits, but also gives cause for reflection by removing it from its context, & making it art.
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein
• Focus is print, specifically the comic books of the 40's & 50's
• Uses limited, flat colour, and hard edged drawing.
• Fond of subtle parody & irony• He reproduces the Ben Day printing dots
used in the commercial printing of comics• He uses themes of violent action &
sentimental romance.
Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962
• Meant to be humorous and self referential• Parodies the romantic notion of an artist life• Increased size of B.D. dots & outlines creates new formal concerns
requiring transformations, and manipulations that separate this from the low art sources..
• Amplifies the intrinsic artificiality• Single frame unresolved
Coarse Medium Fine
The Benday Dot printing process combines two (or more) different small, coloured dots to create a third colour. The process was named after US illustrator and printer Benjamin Day.
Whaam!1963
• From comic American Armed Forces at War• Uses clichés of comic: speech bubbles,