American Pop Art of the 1960s-70s

What is Pop Art?

Pop art is a movement of the 20th century. Pop art is characterized by themes and

techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and everyday cultural objects.

Pop art has been characterized as a reaction to the less-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism as well as an expansion on them.

What Is Pop Art?

Pop art is a visual art movement that emerged in the late 1950s in the United States.

Pop art is an art movement that challenged tradition asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual aspects of popular culture can go hand-in-hand with the perspective of fine art.

Pop art removed the material from its context and isolates the object. When you look at pop art, you isolate your view on certain idea/thing/concept.

Pop art sometimes does not refer to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

What is Pop Art?

Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular culture in art rather than the elitist images of art.

Pop art emphasizes the common, everyday elements of any given culture often through the use of irony.

Pop art is also associated with the artists use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques.

What is Pop Art?

For many people, pop art is very hard to understand because of the conceptual practices that pop artists use in their works.

Pop art has its roots in advertising. Pop artists take the concepts of product

labeling and logos for their imagery

Andy Warhol-Campbell's Tomato Juice Box (1964)

Andy Warhol-Brillo Soap Box

Andy Warhol

What are the origins of Pop Art?

Pop art in the United States developed as a reaction to the “painterly looseness” of the abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

Pop art marked the return to using impersonal, everyday reality in art.

Pop art marked the return of irony and parody in art.

Pop artists in the United States were inspired by living in American culture.

“Painterly Looseness”-Jackson Pollock

“Painterly Looseness”-Mark Rothko

What are the origins of pop art?

Pop art also was inspired by abstract expressionists, in that, pop artists believed in the possibilities for art, especially for large-scale artwork.

Pop art, embraced and went against the Dada Movement.

Pop art and Dadaism embraced the same subjects, but where Dadaism believed in the destructive, satirical and anarchic impulses of art, pop art affirmed the artifacts of mass culture.

What are the origins of Pop Art?

Many art historians have seen the works of Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters and Man Ray as influential to the development of pop art.

Dadaism

Nude Descending A StaircaseMarcel Duchamp (1913)

Dadaism

Max Ernst Europe After the Rain (1940-1942)

Dadaism

Andre MassonPedestal Table in the Studio1922

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso Guernica 1937

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp The Fountain 1917

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt SchwittersFor Kate1947

Man Ray

Man Ray The Misunderstood (1938)

Pop Art in the United States

Pop art began in the United States in the late 1950s.

During the 1960s, pop art underwent many different changes.

During the 1960s, American advertising had adopted many elements and inflections of modern art and functioned on a very sophisticated level.

As a result, American artists had to search deeper for dramatic styles that would distance art from commercials and advertisements.

American Pop Artists

Two of the most important painters in the establishment of America's pop art vocabulary were Jasper Johns and in particular Robert Rauschenberg.

Rauschenberg's works have relationships to the work of Kurt Schwitters and other Dadaists, he was more concern with society of the moment.

Rauschenberg was able to create unity out of topical events in the life of everyday America made his work unique.

American Pop Artists

Roy Lichtenstein is of equal importance to American pop art.

Lichtenstein's work defines the basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody.

Lichtenstein uses the comic strip as subject matter and then produces a hard-edged, precise composition that documents while it parodies on a softer manner.

Lichtenstein's works share a direct attachment to the common place image of American popular culture but also treats the subject in an impersonal manner clearly showing the praise of mass production.

Famous Pop Artists

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns Flag (1954)

Jasper Johns White Flag (1955)

Jasper Johns Target With Plaster Casts (1955)

Jasper Johns Three Flags (1958)

Jasper Johns False Starts (1959)

Jasper Johns Painting With Two Balls (1960)

Jasper Johns Painted Bronze (1960)

Jasper Johns Map (1961)

Jasper Johns Device (1962-63)

Jasper Johns Periscope (1963)

Jasper Johns Figure Five (1963-64)

Jasper Johns The Critic Sees (1964)

Jasper Johns Study For Skin (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1952)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (Ashville Citizen) (1952)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (The Red Painting) (1953)

Robert Rauschenberg Automobile Tire Print (1953)

Robert Rauschenberg Collection (1954)

Robert Rauschenberg Bed (1955)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1955)

Robert Rauschenberg Rebus (1955)

Robert Rauschenberg Factum I (1957)

Robert Rauschenberg Coca-Cola Plan (1958)

Robert Rauschenberg Dam (1959)

Robert Rauschenberg Inlet (1959)

Robert Rauschenberg Migration (1959)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1963)

Robert Rauschenberg Whale (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg Kip-Up (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg Choke (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg Breakthrough I (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg Retroactive I (1964)

Robert Rauschenberg Breakthrough II (1965)

Robert Rauschenberg Visitation II (1965)

Robert Rauschenberg For Dante’s 700th Birthday (1965)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1965)

Robert Rauschenberg Green Shirt (1965-67)

Robert Rauschenberg Gamble (1968)

Robert Rauschenberg Landmark (1968)

Robert Rauschenberg Brake (1969)

Robert Rauschenberg Centennial Certificate, M.M.A. (1969)

Robert Rauschenberg #62 Features From Currents (1970)

Robert Rauschenberg #71 Features From Currents (1970)

Robert Rauschenberg Cardbird Door (1971)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1973)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1973)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1974)

Robert Rauschenberg Tanya (1974)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1979)

Robert Rauschenberg Cloister Series (1980)

Robert Rauschenberg Copperhead Grande (1985)

Robert Rauschenberg Malaysian Flower Cave (1990)

Robert Rauschenberg Untitled (1991)

Robert Rauschenberg Port Of Entry (1998)

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein Roto Broil (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Bread In Bag (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Blam! (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Washing Machine (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Girl With Ball (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Bellamy (1961)

Roy Lichtenstein Head Red and Yellow (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Kitchen Stove (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Desk Calendar (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Brattata (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein The Grip (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Standing Rib (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein In (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Spray (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Takka Takka (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Live Ammo (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Forget It! Forget Me! (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein Woman In Bath (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Drowning Girl (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Thinking Of Him (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Whaaaam! (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein In The Car (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Mad Scientist (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein I Know…Brad (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Magnifying Glass (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein Hopeless (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein World’s Fair Mural (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Compositions I (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein As I Opened Fire (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein We Rose Up Slowly (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Hot Dog (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Him (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Nonobjective II (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Crying Girl (1964)

Roy Lichtenstein Girl With Hair Ribbon (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein GRRRR! (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein Little Big Painting (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein M-Maybe (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein Wall Explosion II (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein Ruins (1965)

Roy Lichtenstein Alka Seltzer (1966)

Roy Lichtenstein Modern Painting With Clef (1967)

Roy Lichtenstein Modern Painting For Expo ‘67 (1967)

Roy Lichtenstein Preparedness (1968)

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol A Boy For Meg (1962)

Andy Warhol Birth of Venus (?)

Andy Warhol Campbell’s Soup Can

Andy Warhol Elvis

Andy Warhol Five Deaths Eleven Times In Orange

Andy Warhol Flowers

Andy Warhol Jackie

Andy Warhol Mao #91

Andy Warhol Marilyn

Andy Warhol Marilyns

Andy Warhol Mickey Mouse

Andy Warhol Red Race Riot

Andy Warhol Self Portrait

Andy Warhol Vegetable Soup

Andy Warhol

Other Pop Artists You Can Use

Billy Apple Rainbow

Sir Peter Blake The First Real Target

Derek Boshiers Airmail

Patrick Caufield Still Life With Dagger

Alan D’Arcangelo Yield

Jim Fine Monotypes

Erro Surprise, Man With A Flower, The Lem , Le Chien Ponctuel

Marisol Escobar Pappagallo

Red Grooms Deli

Richard Hamilton Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?

David Hockney A Bigger Splash

Alex Katz Vincent With Open Mouth

Nicholas Krushenick Silver Image and Goldfinger

Richard Lindner We Are All One and Boy

Peter Max Astral Watcher

Takashi Murakami Army of Mushrooms

Yoshitomo Nara Happy Hour and Light My Fire

Peter Phillips For Men Only

Sigmar Polke Rasterkopf

Hariton Pushwager Epp

Mel Ramos The Spectre

Larry Rivers Untitled

James Rosenquist Untitled

Colin Self Big Heart

Aya Takano The World After 800,000 Years

Wayne Thiebaud Three Machines

John Wesley Bulls and Bed

Tom Wesselmann Still Life No. 20

Project

Your job is to recreate one (or if possible, more) of these art works from the 1960s and 1970s.

You can use oak tag, posterboard or canvas. On your project, please tell me the work you are

recreating. Please note, you DO NOT have to do one of

these works, many of these artists have works you can find on the internet.

This project is due on May 18th.