Fruitport High School Painting

A Jacobson Production
What is Pop-Art? -
Characteristics
The term Pop-Art was
invented by British
curator Lawrence
Alloway in 1955, to
describe a new form
of "Popular" art.
Pop Art is a
movement
characterized by the
imagery inspired by
consumerism and
popular culture.
What is Pop Art?
Pop Art was the art of popular
culture.
It was the visual art movement
that characterized a sense of
optimism during the post war
consumer boom of the 1950's
and 1960's.
It coincided with the
globalization of pop music
and youth culture,
personified by Elvis and the
Beatles.
What is Pop Art?
Pop art presented a
challenge to traditions of
fine art by including imagery
from popular culture such
as advertising and news. Whaam! (1963) Roy
In pop art, material is Lichtenstein.
Tate Collection,
sometimes visually removed London. One of the
from its known original greatest 20th century
paintings of
context, isolated, and/or the Pop-art idiom.
combined with unrelated
material.
 What is Pop Art?
Pop art employs aspects of
mass culture, such as
advertising, comic books and
mundane cultural objects.
THEN.Campbell's
Soup Cans, by Andy
Pop art often takes imagery that Warhol.
is currently used in
advertising.

Lets think of advertising and

popular culture today
Where would we find our
ideas?
What is Pop Art?
As stated on the previous slide. With
Pop Art, material is sometimes visually
removed from its known context,
isolated, and/or combined with
unrelated material.

Lets look at how this is done with a work

by Lichtenstein.
How does Lichtenstein transform their pop
culture sources?
Original comic book ad

DC Comics. Cover illustration for the comic story

Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963
Run for Love!, from Secret Love #83 , 1962.

Howdoes the painting differ from the original?

How does the meaning change?
Appropriation
Write this down.
What is appropriation?
Lets take a look at Marcel Duchamps Bicycle Wheel.

The concept of appropriation

borrowing images or objects to
make artbegan in the early 20th century
with Dada artists like Marcel Duchamp.

In your opinion, is this art?

Why or why not?
The Pop Art Movement is all about
Appropriation.

Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel. 1951

(third version, after lost original of 1913)
What is appropriation?

The concept of appropriation meansthe borrowing

images or objects to make art.

In your opinion, is this art? Why or why not?

The Pop Art Movement is all about Appropriation.
 Famous Pop Artists
We will look at Three Famous Pop Artists.
Each day short videos on each artist will be
shown.
In our upcoming painting assignment you will
select one of these artists to study.
You will fill out a Artist Study sheet to get
to know your artist.
You be working with acrylic paints and
portraits as a theme.
You will select one of these artists and imitate
their Pop Art style an assignment using
current trends, yourself, cultural booms, hot
topics and appropriation.
 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an

American artist who was
a leading figure in the
visual art movement
known as pop art
 Andy Warhol
His works explore
the relationship
between artistic
expression, celebrity
culture and
advertising that
flourished by the
1960s
Andy Warhol used repetition to compare his art to
manufacturing. He even called his art studio The
Factory.

Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara, a political

a movie star. figure in the Cuban
Andy Warhol made art out of ordinary items people used
every day.
Lets look at his work.
If you select Warhol what would your
painting have to incorporate?
 100 Soup Cans by Andy
Warhol
Andy Warhol made art out of ordinary items people
used every day.

If you choose Warhol what characteristics would

your painting have to incorporate?
 "How can you say one
style is better than
another? You ought to be
able to be an Abstract
Expressionist next week,
or a Pop artist, or a
realist, without feeling
you've given up
something.. I think that
would be so great, to be
able to change styles.
And I think that's what is
going to happen, that's
going to be the whole
new scene."
 Roy Lichtenstein

Art was influenced by images in comic

books.
 Roy Lichtenstein
He became a leading figure in the new
art movement.
His work defined the premise of pop
art through Parody.
Inspired by the comic strip
Lichtenstein produced precise
compositions that documented while
they parodied, often in a tongue and
cheek manner.
His work was influenced by popular
advertising and the comic book style.
. He described Pop ART as "not
American' painting but actually
industrial painting".
Lichtenstein used thick outlines, bold colors
and Benday dots to represent colors.
Benday is a process where small colored
dots are used to create color, similar to
Pointillism.
Photo of Roy Lichtenstein used oil and
Lichtenstein. acrylic paint to produce
his images.
 Lets look at his work.
If you select Lichtenstein what
characteristics would your painting have to
 Keith Haring

Keith Allen Haring was an American artist and social

activist whose work responded to the New York City
street culture of the 1980s by expressing concepts
of birth, death, sexuality, and war.
Haring started painting the walls in the
subway, then eventually on canvas.
 Around 1980 Haring
found a highly effective
medium that allowed
him to communicate
with the wider audience.
He noticed the unused
advertising panels
covered with matte
black paper in a subway
station.
He began to create
drawings in white chalk
upon these blank paper
panels throughout the
subway system.
Used symbols with bold lines and bright colors.
 Lets look at his work.
If you select Keith Haring what
characterisitc would your painting have to