Pop Art Grid Paintings

Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein

Pop Art

• International movement• Originated in 1950s London

– British Pop Art satirized/or celebrated consumer culture

• American Pop Art really began in the 1960s– Relationship between using pop culture for inspiration and

using new technologies to make art out of it (mass printing)

• Referred to a movement where art using imagery from pop culture was becoming “Fine Art”– Advertising– Science Fiction Illustration– Automobile styling

Pop Art

• Artist Richard Hamilton Defined Pop Art as:

– Pop = Popular = Designed for a mass audience

– Transient = Short term solution

– Expendable = Easily forgotten

– Low Cost

– Mass Produced

– Aimed at Youth

Pop Art

• Looked for hidden connotations in imagery of:

– Advertising

– Pop culture

– Magazines

– Packaging of consumer products

– Film and cinema

Pop Art

• Appropriation

• Taking something for your own use without the owner’s permission

• Using/recycling images from pop culture/mass production

– With little change in the original image!

– Jasper Johns would use “things the mind already knows” and change little things like color, context, or medium to produce a new way of seeing something blandly familiar

– Robert Rauschenberg created 2D/3D “combines” (collages) of newspapers, magazines, and found objects (often just off the street!)

– Both encouraged artists and viewers to really think about the subject matter in their environment and what it really communicated

Jasper Johns: “Map” 1961

Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine: “Canyon” 1959 (That’s a real, taxidermied eagle…)

American Pop Art

• American Pop Art Style:

– Bold, flat colors

– Centralized compositions

– Very contemporary images

Some American Pop artists made their own art mass produced, cheap, and expendable (Andy Warhol prints)

Assignment Option 1

• Select a celebrity and create a grid painting in the style of Andy Warhol. (Celebrity because we are studying Pop Art and they are “pop icons”)– Must be high contrast

– Use bright and/or unnatural colors

– If you want to work with a group, everyone must do the same celebrity image in different colors (each student must complete his or her OWN painting!!!)

Untitled from Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn); Andy Warhol; 1967; Pop Art; Screen Print

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol-esque

Andy Warhol-esque

Andy Warhol-esque

Andy Warhol-esque

Andy Warhol-esque

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol-esque

OTMS Student Example

OTMS Student Example

OTMS Student Example

OTMS Student Example

OTMS Student Example

OTMS Student Example

My Example of Option 1:

My Example of Option 1

Assignment Option 2

• Select someone to transform into a comic book character and create a grid painting in the style of Roy Lichtenstein

– Focus on the FACE

– Must include a text bubble (with appropriate text!)

– Must be painted in the style of Lichtenstein: using dots and thick outlines

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Example for Assignment Option 2, but needs a text bubble, and this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a

comic book character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!

Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book

character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!

Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book

character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!

Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book

character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!

My Example of Option 2: Sketch

My Example of Option 2