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Summary Pop Art
- Course
- Visual Art
- Institution
- Brescia House High School
IEB Visual Art notes for grade 12, in detail and includes images.
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POP ART- Reaction to Abstract Expressionism
- Popular elements of modern society in painting
- (hoover, comic posters, canned ham)
- Plagiarism to a degree – little change from original image to their
‘art’ – copies
- Popular commercial stuff being used in art field
- More money – can indulge more (buying more fashionable / brand
clothing)
- Advertising put into their art
- More easily acceptable to people who haven’t engaged in art.
- WORD ‘popular’ – things that most American everyday people
liked – fascination with American urban popular culture
- Aspects of everyday life – regarded as un-aesthetic
AIM:
- Art that was accessible to everyone
- Break away from elitism & intellectual art
- Low cost, mass produced, expendable, gimmicky, glamourous,
young, sexy, witty
- Did not intend to make comments about society / make thought
provoking images
- Wanted to recreate images that were common in popular culture &
were highly appealing & marketable.
CHARACTERISTICS:
- Believed it should be accessible to reflect the values of & apple to
the average man on the street
- Printed media had an affect on colours, style & methods of
reproduction
- Advertising, magazines, comic strips & newspaper techniques
- Bright, striking colours – flat w little shading
- Large
- Repetition of images
- Little emotion, no symbolism, witty, cheap & gimmicky
, - Focused on aspects of everyday life
- MATERIALS: new & modern, acrylic paint, textiles, silk-screens,
magazine cutouts, newspaper photos, films & airbrush.
- SUBJECT MATTER: movies, movie stars, food, comic strips,
objects in everyday life, billboards, adverts, criminals etc.
- INFLUNCED BY DADA MOVEMENT – ‘NEO-DADA’ ready-made
images & objects were used
- Images chosen were for their mass appeal rather than for their
formal qualities/symbolic meaning. Mass appeal, visual
attractiveness & popularity.
INFLUECES:
- Cubist collages
- Dada ready mades
- Reflection of consumer society
- Printed media
POP ARTISTS:
- Andy Warhol : pass produced art, repeated motifs
- Claus Oldenburg : soft sculptures, everyday objects
- Roy Lichtenstein : comic books, Ben Day Dots
- Jasper Johns : popular American Themes: American Flag
- George Seagal : realistic sculptures of contemporary America
Andy Warhol:
Subject Matter: standard brands, supermarket produce; photographing
famous people, scenes of death & destruction
Technique & Medium: prints & silk screens; photographs; movies,
magazines.
Five Themes:
- Repetition
- Popular heroes
- Disasters & decay
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