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__________________Mr. Vedder - Studio Art
Pop Art Printmaking
“In the future everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes” – Andy
Warhol
History of Pop Art:

Abbreviation of Popular
Art, the Pop Art movement
used common everyday
objects to portray elements
of popular culture, primarily
images in advertising and
television.
 The Pop Art movement
originated in England in the
1950s and traveled
overseas to the United
States during the 1960s.
 Pop Art shattered the divide
between the commercial
arts and the fine arts.
Andy Warhol:
 Andy Warhol graduated in
1949 with a Fine Arts
degree from Carnegie Tech
in Pittsburgh, moved to
New York and achieved
immediate success as an
advertising illustrator and
commercial artist for
magazines and newspapers.
 Warhol was fascinated by Hollywood, fashion and style. He
transferred this interest to his artwork, claiming not to see the
difference between a museum and a department store.
 Blurring the distinction between art and life, he believed art could be
fashion, decoration, and politics.
 He borrowed images from popular culture for his artwork.
 Warhol's early paintings of the 1960s are among the first examples of
American Pop art.
 Images of American icons such as Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy and
Marilyn Monroe were repeated in systematic rows.
 After 1962, his paintings were made exclusively as screen-printed
photographic images executed by assistants in his studio, called the
Factory.
History of Printmaking & Screen-printing:
 In the beginning, before the
printing press, printmaking
was not considered an art
form, rather a medium of
communication.
 Printmaking is a process of
making prints on paper.
 Screen-printing is a printing
technique that uses a
woven mesh to support an
ink-blocking stencil.
 Credit is generally given to
the artist Andy Warhol for
Screen-printing technique:
popularizing screenprinting.
References:
http://www.wwar.com/masters/movements/pop_art.html
http://www.printmaking.org/
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Arts/Graphicartists/generalities/Historyofprintmaking.htm