1. The Pop Art Movement
Alyssa Rollins, Leila Haddad, and
Mona Patel
2. Pop art is:
Popular (designed for a mass audience).
Transient (short-term solution).
Expendable (easily-forgotten). Low
cost. Mass produced. Young (aimed at
youth). Witty. Sexy. Gimmicky.
Glamorous. Big business. This is just
the beginning…
Richard Hamilton in a Letter to Alison and Peter
Smithson, 16 January 1957
3. Origin
• Timeline: mid 1950’s to early 1970’s (time of
economic prosperity)
• Concept first originated in Britain in early 1950’s
by the Independent Group
• The word pop has several origins
• Link to Marcel Duchamp
4. Pop Art
• Aimed to blur the line between traditional art
and popular culture (between “high” and “low”
cultured art).
• Themes of daily object, mass media, and
repetition, everyday life
• Coincided with Abstract Expressionism
6. Andy Warhol
• 1928-1987
• Fashion illustrator, painter, sculptor,
filmmaker, producer of the Velvet
Underground, magazine publisher,
philosopher, historian, diarist, model,
photographer, and archivist.
• Started off as commercial artist
• One of the founding fathers of the pop art
movement
• Themes: Campbell soup cans, Marilyn Monroe,
Brillo pads, disasters
• The Factory
• Shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas
16. Paintings
• In 1955, Jasper
Johns created a
series of
paintings of
single numbers
called figures.
17. Is a number really a number?
• By choosing a number as
a subject matter, Johns
deprived them of their
practical
function, reinventing
them as formats for
movements of
paint, color, line, and
surface.
21. Roy Lichtenstein
• Born in New York City on October 27, 1923
• Grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
• Inspired by advertisements and comic strips
• Bright, graphic images parodied popular culture
• Died in New York City on September 29, 1997
23. “This was the first time
I decided to make a
painting really look like
commercial art. The approach
turned out to be so interesting that
eventually it became impossible to
do
any other kind of painting.”
-Roy Lichtenstein
30. Summary
• Dealt with painting, printmaking, and sculpture
• Originated in the mid-1950s
• Major artists in the United States include:
▫ Andy Warhol
▫ Roy Lichtenstein
▫ Jasper Johns
• Major artist in Britain:
▫ Richard Hamilton
• Difference between U.S. and Britain’s pop art is
the U.S. seemed more united
Editor's Notes
First work to achieve iconic status, technique: collage, Independent Group, origin of name (pop), father of British pop art,