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One of the United States' major artistic movements of the 20th century. It made real the breaking down of barriers that had existed for hundreds of hears between high art and mass culture . Refers to the products of the mass media evolving in the late 1950s and 60s and also to the works of art that draw upon popular culture: Packaging, Television, AdvertisEments, Comic books, the Cinema. POP ART MOVEMENT First coined in Britain in 1955.
MOST FAMOUS 1. Christo 2. AllanD'Arcangelo POP ARTISTS : 3. Jim Dine 4. Mel Ramos 5. Andy Warhol As mentioned before, Pop Artists favoured commercial 6. Edward Ruscha methods of production, not 7. James Rosenquist dissimilar to the subjects they were using, as it meant that 8. Alex Katz unlimited reproductions could 9. Jasper Johns be made. 10. Tom Wesselmann 11. Robert Indiana 12. Larry Rivers 13. Claes Oldenburg MOVEMENT 14. Red Grooms 15. Roy Lichtenstein
CHRISTO Environmental installation artist and painter of architectural landscape drawings Become known for "wrapping" famous buildings and geographical landmarks with plastic and woven-fabric sheets. Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, Allied Chemical Tower, New York Color lithograph with collage of fabric, thread, transparent polyethylene, staples, photograph, map, and masking tape; charcoal and color additions.
AllanD'Arcangelo American painter and printmaker. His reputation as a Pop artist was established by his first New York one-man exhibition in 1963. “Flat and impersonal style” allowed him to suggest an illusionistic space without sacrificing the viewer’s consciousness of the picture plane. Beginning Lithograph with silkscreen and embossing 1975
Jim Dine Drawings, sculptures, graphics, collages and assemblages he combined different techniques with handwritten texts and words and set real everyday objects against undefined backgrounds. Oil of Gladness Heliorelief woodcut, softground etching and spitbite etching with hand coloring on Arches paper. 1988
Mel RAMOS He developed a specific kind of Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products. Tobacco Rose (from 11 Pop Artists portfolio, Vol. II) Screen print on wove paper 1965
Andy Warhol Warhol began with Coke bottles and comic strips .In December 1961 He displayed his canvases of Campbell's soup, one canvas for each of the 32 types of Campbell's soup. He discovered the process of silk screening. Campbell"s Soup II (New England Clam Chowder) Screenprint on white paper. 1969
Edward Ruscha In 1962 he completed his first picture using three-dimensional lettering, Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights. He designed the layout for the art magazine Art Forum, using the pseudonym Eddie Russia. He produced further books and the silk-screen print Hollywood. America Whistles: America the Third Century Lithograph 1975
James Rosenquist Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture (often funny, vulgar, and outrageous) to the context of fine art. His specialty is taking fragmented, oddly disproportionate images and combining, overlapping, and putting them on canvases to create visual stories. Roll Down Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1965-1966
Alex Katz He developed his style in the portrait works of ordinary people from the late 1950s. In the 1960s Katz’s works became more realistic and were executed in a smoother, more impersonal style. After the 1960s he continued producing similar figure paintings as well as prints. Pas de deux Color screenprint 1994-1995
Jasper Johns His work is often described as a Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers. Ale Cans Color Lithograph 1964
Tom Wesselmann He rejected abstract expressionism in favor of the classical representations of the nude,still life, and landscape. He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephermera in an effort to make images as powerful as the abstract expressionism he admired. Smoker Study #39 oil on canvas 1967
Robert Indiana His early works were inspired by traffic signs, automatic amusement machines, commercial stencils and old trade names. He became known for silkscreen prints, posters and sculptures which took the word LOVE as their theme. Heliotherapy Love Color Screenprint on 4-ply rag board 1995 TODAY’S
Larry Rivers Although influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, as this painting's size and gestural style reveal, Larry Rivers remained committed to portraying recognizable figures. Astaire in the Air sceenprint 1995 POP ART
Claes Oldenburg Son of a Swedish Consul General Best known for his monumental public sculpture in which he takes commonplace, everyday items such as silverware, food, and machinery and transforms them in surprising and humorous ways. Bride Mannikin, Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel 1961
Red Grooms American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Besides painting and sculpture, Grooms is also known for his prolific printmaking. Red Grooms and Mimi Gross Oil on Canvas 1967
Roy Lichtenstein Prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting". Drowning Girl used the splash page of a romance story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83 Roy Lichtenstein 1963
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POP ART POP ART REFERENCES Get pop art http://www.getpopart.com/DArcangelo-Bio.html Wikipedia website : Christo, AllanD’Arcangelo ,Jim dine ,Mel Ramos, Andy Warhol ,Edward Ruscha ,James Rosenquist ,Alex Katz, Jasper Jones, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Red Grooms and Roy Lichtenstein Index http://en.wikipedia.org/ Designed by FangJian Dong HECOL 350 POP ART POP ART ART
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