POP ART
When you have Pop , you can never see a
sign in the same way. And when you had
think Pop, you will never look at United
States the same way.
--Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Pop Art was an artistic
movement developed at
the end of 1950´sand
begining of the 60´s,
was a reflect of the
quotidean life and
common objects.
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964,  AWF
“Pop artists made
images out of anything
anyone could recognize
on the streets in one
second. . .”—Gretchen Berg.
Three Coke Bottles, 1962,  AWF
Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950
Carnegie Museum of Art;
Donación de Frank R. S. Kaplan/ARS
Pop artists get away from the
Abstract Expressionism, the
artistic style that was on
“fashion” on the late 50´s. The
Expressionists evoque
emotions, feelings and ideas
through the formal art
elements:
• Line
• Color
• Shape
• Form
• Texture
Pop artists used common images of the quotidian
culture, including:
• Propaganda
• Comsumism
• Celebritys
• Photographs
• Comics
Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962
Artists used bright colors, plain and compositions
adapted from comercial designs as those found
on:
•Cardboards
• Murals
• Magazines
• Diaries
Campbell's Soup II, 1969,  AWF
Pop artists showed their culture , 60´s using new
materials in their artistis work, which include:
•Acrilic painting
• Plastics
• Photographs
• Metalic and
fluorescent colors
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963
As well as new tecnologies and methods:
• Mass production
• Fabrication
• Photography
• Engraving
• Series
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962,  Claes Oldenburg
Pop art brought the
attention of many
spectators, even thoigh
they feel they were
moking common people
and their lives. It was
hard for some people to
understand why artists
painted cheap objects,
quotidian, when
historically the function of
art was to represent the
ideals more valuable of
culture.
Listerine Bottle, 1963,  AWF
Andy Warhol was one of the most famous artists of
the Pop culture. He used new technologies and
new ways of making art which include:
• Photographic silk screen
• Repetition
• Mass Production
• Colaboration
• Mediatic Events
Andy Warhol, Brillo
Boxes installation,
Warhol took (without autorization) images of
diaries, magazines, and photographs of
newspapers of the most popular characters of his
time
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Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963,  AWF
Warhol used repetition of mediatic events to
critisize cultural ideas through his art
Pinturas Jackie, 1964,  AWF
Warhol took equotidian lements and geve them
the importance as “art”
Knives, 1981,  AWF
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964,  AWF
What makes and art piece better than another?
Pop artist took further the definition of What
can be artand how could it be done
Fotografía de Hervé Gloaguen
“The pop idea , after all, was that anybody could make
anything; naturally, then everybody tryed to make it all…”
---Andy Warhol
The actual world of art shows many ideas,
methods and materials started by the artistic
movement Pop.
En Untitled, 1991, Barbara Kruger uses
the iconography of the United States
flag and graphics to ask a series of
provocative questions about the USA
culture and its values.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991
Cortesía de: Mary Boone Gallery, NY
En Rabbit, 1986, by the artist Jeff Koons,
mass production. This sculpture was an
icon in hte 80´s.
Jeff Koons, Rabbit,
1986,  Jeff Koons