1. Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the
popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine
advertisements, and supermarket products.
3. Robert Rauschenberg - Canyon, 1959
In 2007 the plot of the unsellable artwork thickened when
the Internal Revenue Service slapped the Sonnabends with
a bill for $29.2 million. The IRS claimed that the
Rauschenberg possessed a fair market value of $65 million
and the owners were required to pay the appropriate taxes,
reported The New York Times.
Pop Artists
8. Jim Dine 1935
Jim Dine became one of the pioneers of pop art.
Pop artists often chose ordinary everyday objects
as their subjects, presenting them with detachment
and irony.
Dine painted many images of bathrobes, neckties,
hearts, and tools.
At the age of 12 Jim Dine’s mother died and Dine went to live with his
maternal grandparents. Dine’s grandfather owned a hardware store where
Jim Dine worked throughout his youth and came to know and appreciate
the beauty of hand tools. It is not surprising that Jim Dine would turn to
them as a theme later on. Jim Dine states that he adopted tools as a
subject "because they felt right….like relatives…as though their last name
was Dine."
10. Jim Dine “The images I use come from a desire to define my
own identity and make a space for myself in this world.” I saw
this robe in an ad and it looked like me...
