The Pop Art movement originated in the mid-1950s and aimed to blur the line between traditional art and popular culture. Major artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein took inspiration from everyday objects and mass media to create brightly colored, graphic pieces that commented on commercialism and consumer culture. Warhol produced iconic works like Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Monroe prints using techniques like silkscreening and repetition. Lichtenstein similarly parodied advertisements and comics through paintings that emulated the style of commercial art. The movement questioned ideas of high versus low art.
“Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.”- One of Any Warhol’s famous quotes rightly explains the rage with which Pop Art had taken over the world. The pop art movement, started in the mid-1950s has redefined the visuals of art and given it a whole new dimension. Following the abstract art popularity, pop art emerged as a complete contrast to the former.
“Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.”- One of Any Warhol’s famous quotes rightly explains the rage with which Pop Art had taken over the world. The pop art movement, started in the mid-1950s has redefined the visuals of art and given it a whole new dimension. Following the abstract art popularity, pop art emerged as a complete contrast to the former.
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1. The Pop Art Movement
Alyssa Rollins, Leila Haddad, and Mona Patel
2. 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, phot
ographer, and archivist.
• Started off as commercial artist
• One of the founding fathers of the pop art
movement
• Themes: shoes, Campbell soup cans, Marilyn
Monroe, Brillo pads, disasters
• The Factory
• Shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas
22. 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
24. “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
31. 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,