Pop Art was an art movement that emerged in the late 1950s in both Europe and the United States. It reflected popular and commercial culture, using imagery from advertisements, comic strips, and everyday mass-produced objects. Notable Pop Artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein took images from popular culture and reproduced them in an aesthetic manner using techniques like silkscreening. Their work blurred the lines between fine art and commercial art. Pop Art commented on consumer culture and mass media through the use of everyday imagery and objects. It challenged notions of what art could be and helped expand definitions of art.

1. Project 3: Pop Art
Once you “got” Pop, you could never see
a sign the same way again. And once
you thought Pop, you could never see
America the same way again.
--Andy Warhol

2. Pop Art – An Art Movement
• #1. Late 1950s and
1960s
• #2. Reflected
everyday life and
common objects.
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964, © AWF

3. #3. Pop artists blurred the line between
fine art and commercial art.

4. “Pop Artists did images
that anybody walking
down the street could
recognize in a split
second…all the great
modern things that the
Abstract Expressionists
tried so hard not to
notice at all.”—Gretchen Berg.
Three Coke Bottles, 1962, © AWF

5. • The Pop artists moved away
from Abstract Expressionism
which was the “in” style of art
in the 1950s.
• The Abstract Expressionist
evoked emotions, feelings and
ideas through formal elements
such as:
• Line
• Color
• Shape
• Form
• Texture
Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950
Carnegie Museum of Art;
Gift of Frank R. S. Kaplan/©ARS

6. #4. Pop Artists used common images from
everyday culture as their sources including:
Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962
• Advertisements
• Consumer goods
• Celebrities
• Photographs
• Comic strips

7. #5. Pop Artists used bold,
flat colors and hard edge
compositions adopted from
commercial designs like
those found in:
•Billboards
• Murals
• Magazines
• Newspapers
Campbell's Soup II, 1969, © AWF

8. Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using
new materials in their artworks including:
•Acrylic Paints
• Plastics
• Photographs
• Fluorescent and
Metallic colors
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963

9. As well as new technologies and methods:
• Mass production
• Fabrication
• Photography
• Printing
• Serials
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962, © Claes Oldenburg

10. • Pop art was appealing to
many viewers, while others
felt it made fun of common
people and their lives.
• Some people didn’t
understand why Pop Artists
were painting cheap,
everyday objects.
• The function of art
historically was to uphold
and represent culture’s
most valuable ideals.
Listerine Bottle, 1963, © AWF

11. Andy Warhol was one of the most famous Pop
Artists. Part of his artistic practice was using new
technologies and new ways of making art including:
• Photographic Silk-Screening
• Repetition
• Mass production
• Collaboration
• Media events
Andy Warhol, Brillo
Boxes installation,

12. Warhol appropriated (used without permission)
images from magazines, newspapers, and press
photos of the most popular people of his time
Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963, © AWF
©2006 Life Inc.

13. Warhol used the repetition of media events
to critique and reframe cultural ideas
through his art.
Jackie paintings, 1964, © AWF

14. Warhol took common everyday items and
gave them importance as “art” He raised
questions about the nature of art:
Knives, 1981, © AWF
What makes one work of art better than another?
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964, © AWF

15. Pop artists stretched the definitions of what
art could be and how it can be made.
“The Pop idea, after all, was that anybody could do anything,
so naturally we were all trying to do it all…” ---Andy
Warhol
photo by Hervé Gloaguen

16. The art world today reflects many of
the ideas, methods and materials
initiated by the Pop Art movement.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991
Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, NY
In Untitled, 1991, Barbara
Kruger posed a series of
provocative questions
about American cultural
values.

17. • In Rabbit, 1986, artist
Jeff Koons cast a
mass-produced
inflatable Easter
bunny in highly
polished stainless
steel.
• The sculpture
became iconic of art
in the 1980s.Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986, © Jeff Koons

18. Pop Art Project #1:
Portrait in the Style of Andy Warhol
• Choose one iconic
person (celebrity,
leader/president,
famous athlete,
inventor,
actor/actress, etc.)
or one of your own
portrait photos and
create a pop art
style effect.

19. Pop Art Project #2:
Pop Art Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein
• Choose one iconic person (celebrity,
leader/president, famous athlete, inventor,
actor/actress, etc.) or one of your own portrait
photos and create a pop art style effect.

21. #3 - Final Pop Art Project
• Using your own
photograph(s) create a
piece inspired by POP
ART.
• Create a political or
social commentary
piece that responds to
the present time, 2016.

22. Think About:
1. What are
you drawn
to in popular
culture?

23. Co
Commentary piece on pressure to have long
eyelashes as a female. Eyelash extensions?!

24. What could be Popular Culture?
• People
• Objects
• What do you buy?
• Controversial
items?
• What do you like or
dislike in our
consumer world?

25. OR Maybe….
The ridiculous
objects or
people within
our society.

26. REPETITION OF ONE
OBJECT/PERSON IS AN
OPTION!

27. • Bold colors and shapes.
• PLAN YOUR COLOR
SCHEME!
Incoporate pattern and colors
similar to pop art movement.

28. EVERYDAY OBJECTS

29. PEOPLE – Everyday and Celebrity

30. Be Inventive!
Don’t copy something already done.

31. Don’t make it too easy!

32. Pop Art Style Photography

33. Photos turned into comics

35. MAKE it YOUR OWN!