The document discusses the pop art movement that emerged in the late 1950s and 1960s, highlighting how artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein utilized everyday objects, advertisements, and popular culture icons as inspiration. It describes the techniques and materials used by pop artists, such as vibrant colors and new printmaking technologies, while reflecting on modern society's fixation on consumerism with both respect and irony. The text also includes instructions for completing an assignment related to pop art, outlining questions to explore its themes and representatives.

1. POP ART
Question: How can we use ART to look at objects and icons of Popular Culture in a new way?
Pop Art was an art movement in the late 1950’s and 1960’s that reflected everyday life and common objects.
Pop artists blurred the line between fine art and commercial art. Pop artists used common images from
everyday culture as sources of inspiration for their subjects, including advertisements, consumer goods,
celebrities, photos and comic strips.
After WWII, mass production of goods and the business of advertising expanded dramatically. Pop artists
respected modern culture’s energy, creativity and brightness but also treated it with humor and irony (mocking
something or someone by saying the opposite of what you mean), Pop artists wanted to represent this new
obsession with material goods and popular culture, celebrities, ads, magazines, etc...
Pop artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those
found on Billboards, murals, magazines, and newspapers. Some artists worked hard to include fine details. Pop
artists reflected 60’s culture by using new materials in their artworks including Acrylic paints, plastic, photos,
fluorescent and metallic colors ads well as new technologies and methods like silk-screening (Printmaking).
Pop art’s most well-known artists, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, changed the way we look at the objects
around us. This art movement sparked a new interest in visual culture, which can be defined as the study of the
impact of images on a culture, or the impact of society and culture on images.
“Marilyn Monroe”
By Andy Warhol
1962.
“Girl with Hair Ribbon”
By Roy Lichtenstein
1965

2. After reading the excerpt above, answering the following questions in Google
Docs (or similar program). Type your name, block & “day” in the upper left corner
and type; “Pop Art” in the upper right. Use size 14 “Times New Roman” font.
Include the questions in your answer. Complete a “spell/grammar” check before
turning in. Submit your assignment using either Canvas, or Classcraft!
1. What did the Pop artists use for sources of inspiration for their subject matter?
2. What did Pop Artists respect, and how did they treat it?
3. Why did Pop artists make this kind of art?
4. In a complete sentence, explain the artistic style of Pop Art.
5. What new materials, technologies and methods did Pop Artists make use of?
6. Who were Pop Art’s most well-known artists?
7. What is VISUAL CULTURE?
8. List five “popular” objects that our culture feels is important? (Think advertisements).
“Marilyn Monroe”
By Andy Warhol
1962.
“Girl with Hair Ribbon”
By Roy Lichtenstein
1965