Pop Art/ Commerciali

smThe Movement

in History

Pop Art Project Agenda

• First, fold your paper in half twice so that once it is opened you have 4 equal sections in which to draw.

• Decide on what object you want to draw and repeat it 4 times (once in each block). You may want to draw it on a piece of scratch paper once and then trace it into the 4 blocks to ensure consistency.

• Draw and outline your object. Color using BRIGHT colors (POP ART COLORS!).

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.[1] Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc. In pop art, material is sometimes visually removed from its known context, isolated, and/or combined with unrelated material.[1][2] The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.[2]

Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising.[5] Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell's Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping box containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol's Campbell's Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.

Andy Warhol/ Pop Artist

The words Pop Art came from the root word Popular.

What statement was the artist making by painting a soup can? Opinion?

Self Portrait of Andy Warhol using the screen printing method.

Pop artists, like Warhol, often repeated the same image in one painting

Jasper Johns was an artist that came onto the scene in the 1950s. Much of the work that he created led the American public away from the expressionism form, and towards an art movement or form known as the concrete. He would depict many flags and maps, and this created a more distinct style with the work that was being done during this period in American art history. He was also one of the leading forces to the pop form known as minimalism; even to this day, many of the pieces that are sold at auction, bring in extremely high price tags, and sell for record amounts.

Jasper Johns

Can you tell what this painting is ?

Jasper Johns was well known for painting American themes

He also liked painting numbers. It is amazing how even numbers can become art.

More Numbers art by J. Johns. Notice how PAINTERLY and colorful his work is.

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was an American pop artist. During the 1960s, along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and James Rosenquist among others, he became a leading figure in the new art movement. His work defined the basic premise of pop art through parody.[2] Favoring the comic strip as his main inspiration, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented while it parodied often in a tongue-in-cheek humorous manner. His work was heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He described pop art as "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting

Now…. I am going to show you some examples of student work. Can you guess which artist influenced their art projects?

Remember: Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein

Which artist was this student studying?

• Warhol

• Johns

• Lichtenstein

Agenda for Pop Art Lesson in the Warhol Style

• Look through the packet of ideas on subjects to include in your drawing. If you do not want to trace or draw anything from the packet, develop your own idea.•Once you know what you want to draw, you may

begin by folding your paper in half twice. When you open it up you should have 4 equal sections to draw into.•Draw or trace the same object in each of the 4

sections (see ex.)•Color using the vivid colors that Pop artists used

but color each block differently.