American Pop Art of the 1960s-70s
What is Pop Art?
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Pop art is a movement of the 20th century.
Pop art is characterized by themes and
techniques drawn from popular mass culture,
such as advertising, comic books and everyday
cultural objects.
Pop art has been characterized as a reaction to
the less-dominant ideas of abstract
expressionism as well as an expansion on
them.
What Is Pop Art?
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Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the
late 1950s in the United States.
Pop art is an art movement that challenged tradition
asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced
visual aspects of popular culture can go hand-in-hand
with the perspective of fine art.
Pop art removed the material from its context and
isolates the object. When you look at pop art, you
isolate your view on certain idea/thing/concept.
Pop art sometimes does not refer to the art itself as to
the attitudes that led to it.
What is Pop Art?
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Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular
culture in art rather than the elitist images of art.
Pop art emphasizes the common, everyday
elements of any given culture often through the
use of irony.
Pop art is also associated with the artists use of
mechanical means of reproduction or rendering
techniques.
What is Pop Art?
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For many people, pop art is very hard to
understand because of the conceptual practices
that pop artists use in their works.
Pop art has its roots in advertising.
Pop artists take the concepts of product labeling
and logos for their imagery
Andy Warhol-Campbell's Tomato
Juice Box (1964)
Andy Warhol-Brillo Soap Box
Andy Warhol
What are the origins of Pop Art?
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Pop art in the United States developed as a
reaction to the “painterly looseness” of the
abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock
and Mark Rothko.
Pop art marked the return to using impersonal,
everyday reality in art.
Pop art marked the return of irony and parody in
art.
Pop artists in the United States were inspired by
living in American culture.
“Painterly Looseness”-Jackson
Pollock
“Painterly Looseness”-Mark Rothko
What are the origins of pop art?
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Pop art also was inspired by abstract
expressionists, in that, pop artists believed in
the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale
artwork.
Pop art, embraced and went against the Dada
Movement.
Pop art and Dadaism embraced the same
subjects, but where Dadaism believed in the
destructive, satirical and anarchic impulses of
art, pop art affirmed the artifacts of mass
culture.
What are the origins of Pop Art?
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Many art historians have seen the works of
Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt
Schwitters and Man Ray as influential to the
development of pop art.
Dadaism
Nude Descending A Staircase
Marcel Duchamp (1913)
Dadaism
Max Ernst
Europe After the Rain (1940-1942)
Dadaism
Andre Masson
Pedestal Table in the Studio
1922
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
1937
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp The Fountain 1917
Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Schwitters
For Kate
1947
Man Ray
Man Ray The Misunderstood (1938)
Pop Art in the United States
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Pop art began in the United States in the late
1950s.
During the 1960s, pop art underwent many
different changes.
During the 1960s, American advertising had
adopted many elements and inflections of
modern art and functioned on a very
sophisticated level.
As a result, American artists had to search
deeper for dramatic styles that would distance
art from commercials and advertisements.
American Pop Artists
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Two of the most important painters in the
establishment of America's pop art vocabulary
were Jasper Johns and in particular Robert
Rauschenberg.
Rauschenberg's works have relationships to the
work of Kurt Schwitters and other Dadaists, he
was more concern with society of the moment.
Rauschenberg was able to create unity out of
topical events in the life of everyday America
made his work unique.
American Pop Artists
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Roy Lichtenstein is of equal importance to American
pop art.
Lichtenstein's work defines the basic premise of pop
art better than any other through parody.
Lichtenstein uses the comic strip as subject matter
and then produces a hard-edged, precise composition
that documents while it parodies on a softer manner.
Lichtenstein's works share a direct attachment to the
common place image of American popular culture but
also treats the subject in an impersonal manner clearly
showing the praise of mass production.
Famous Pop Artists
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns Flag (1954)
Jasper Johns White Flag (1955)
Jasper Johns Target With Plaster
Casts (1955)
Jasper Johns Three Flags (1958)
Jasper Johns False Starts (1959)
Jasper Johns Painting With Two
Balls (1960)
Jasper Johns Painted Bronze
(1960)
Jasper Johns Map (1961)
Jasper Johns Device (1962-63)
Jasper Johns Periscope (1963)
Jasper Johns Figure Five (1963-64)
Jasper Johns The Critic Sees
(1964)
Jasper Johns Study For Skin
(1964)
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1952)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(Ashville Citizen) (1952)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (The
Red Painting) (1953)
Robert Rauschenberg Automobile
Tire Print (1953)
Robert Rauschenberg Collection
(1954)
Robert Rauschenberg Bed (1955)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1955)
Robert Rauschenberg Rebus (1955)
Robert Rauschenberg Factum I
(1957)
Robert Rauschenberg Coca-Cola
Plan (1958)
Robert Rauschenberg Dam (1959)
Robert Rauschenberg Inlet (1959)
Robert Rauschenberg Migration
(1959)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1963)
Robert Rauschenberg Whale (1964)
Robert Rauschenberg Kip-Up
(1964)
Robert Rauschenberg Choke (1964)
Robert Rauschenberg Breakthrough
I (1964)
Robert Rauschenberg Retroactive I
(1964)
Robert Rauschenberg Breakthrough
II (1965)
Robert Rauschenberg Visitation II
(1965)
Robert Rauschenberg For Dante’s
th
700 Birthday (1965)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1965)
Robert Rauschenberg Green Shirt
(1965-67)
Robert Rauschenberg Gamble
(1968)
Robert Rauschenberg Landmark
(1968)
Robert Rauschenberg Brake (1969)
Robert Rauschenberg Centennial
Certificate, M.M.A. (1969)
Robert Rauschenberg #62 Features
From Currents (1970)
Robert Rauschenberg #71 Features
From Currents (1970)
Robert Rauschenberg Cardbird
Door (1971)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1973)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1973)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1974)
Robert Rauschenberg Tanya (1974)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1979)
Robert Rauschenberg Cloister
Series (1980)
Robert Rauschenberg Copperhead
Grande (1985)
Robert Rauschenberg Malaysian
Flower Cave (1990)
Robert Rauschenberg Untitled
(1991)
Robert Rauschenberg Port Of Entry
(1998)
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein Roto Broil (1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Bread In Bag
(1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Blam! (1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Washing Machine
(1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Girl With Ball
(1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Bellamy (1961)
Roy Lichtenstein Head Red and
Yellow (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Kitchen Stove
(1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Desk Calendar
(1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Brattata (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein The Grip (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Standing Rib
(1962)
Roy Lichtenstein In (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Spray (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Takka Takka
(1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Live Ammo (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Forget It! Forget
Me! (1962)
Roy Lichtenstein Woman In Bath
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Drowning Girl
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Thinking Of Him
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Whaaaam! (1963)
Roy Lichtenstein In The Car (1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Mad Scientist
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein I Know…Brad
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Magnifying Glass
(1963)
Roy Lichtenstein Hopeless (1963)
Roy Lichtenstein World’s Fair Mural
(1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Compositions I
(1964)
Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire
(1964)
Roy Lichtenstein We Rose Up
Slowly (1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Hot Dog (1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Him (1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Nonobjective II
(1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl (1964)
Roy Lichtenstein Girl With Hair
Ribbon (1965)
Roy Lichtenstein GRRRR! (1965)
Roy Lichtenstein Little Big Painting
(1965)
Roy Lichtenstein M-Maybe (1965)
Roy Lichtenstein Wall Explosion II
(1965)
Roy Lichtenstein Ruins (1965)
Roy Lichtenstein Alka Seltzer (1966)
Roy Lichtenstein Modern Painting
With Clef (1967)
Roy Lichtenstein Modern Painting
For Expo ‘67 (1967)
Roy Lichtenstein Preparedness
(1968)
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol A Boy For Meg (1962)
Andy Warhol Birth of Venus (?)
Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can
Andy Warhol Elvis
Andy Warhol Five Deaths Eleven
Times In Orange
Andy Warhol Flowers
Andy Warhol Jackie
Andy Warhol Mao #91
Andy Warhol Marilyn
Andy Warhol Marilyns
Andy Warhol Mickey Mouse
Andy Warhol Red Race Riot
Andy Warhol Self Portrait
Andy Warhol Vegetable Soup
Andy Warhol
Other Pop Artists You Can Use
Billy Apple Rainbow
Sir Peter Blake The First Real
Target
Derek Boshiers Airmail
Patrick Caufield Still Life With
Dagger
Alan D’Arcangelo Yield
Jim Fine Monotypes
Erro Surprise, Man With A Flower,
The Lem , Le Chien Ponctuel
Marisol Escobar Pappagallo
Red Grooms Deli
Richard Hamilton Just What Is It that Makes
Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?
David Hockney A Bigger Splash
Alex Katz Vincent With Open Mouth
Nicholas Krushenick Silver Image
and Goldfinger
Richard Lindner We Are All One and
Boy
Peter Max Astral Watcher
Takashi Murakami Army of
Mushrooms
Yoshitomo Nara Happy Hour and
Light My Fire
Peter Phillips For Men Only
Sigmar Polke Rasterkopf
Hariton Pushwager Epp
Mel Ramos The Spectre
Larry Rivers Untitled
James Rosenquist Untitled
Colin Self Big Heart
Aya Takano The World After
800,000 Years
Wayne Thiebaud Three Machines
John Wesley Bulls and Bed
Tom Wesselmann Still Life No. 20
Project
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Your job is to recreate one (or if possible, more)
of these art works from the 1960s and 1970s.
You can use oak tag, posterboard or canvas.
On your project, please tell me the work you are
recreating.
Please note, you DO NOT have to do one of
these works, many of these artists have works
you can find on the internet.
This project is due on May 18th.