Pop art

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Pop art

• 1950s-1960s

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definition

• A reaction against abstract expressionism as too
  serious, pretentious
• Parodies (or reflects) a world in which
  celebrities, brand names, and media images have
  replaced the sacred

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Major names

• Andy Warhol
• 1928-1987
• Roy Lichtenstein
• 1923-1997

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Andy Warhol

• Born Andrew Warhola, Pittsburgh
• Opened The Factory, 1962
• An art producing machine
• Film studio Sleep, a six-hour film of a man
  sleeping
• Wanted to blur the differences between fine art
  and commercial art
• Famous for his fright wigs

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Campbells Soup

• Mass produced silk screens (serigraphy)
• Existed in many varieties (like the soup)
• Emphasis on mass production

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Marilyn Monroe
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Other Warhol WorksMao Tse-Tung John Lennon
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Who shot Andy Warhol?

• June 3, 1968
• Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of
  S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men)
• Entered the studio and shot him three times
• Publicity failed due to the RFK assassination

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Roy Lichtenstein

• Born NYC
• MFA, Ohio State University
• Appropriated the subject and style of cartoons
  and advertising

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as artificial as possible

• I Love Liberty
• Signature devices
• Benday dots
• Lettering
• Speech balloons
• Bold outlines
• Vivid colors
• Stylized forms

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I like to pretend my art has nothing to do with
me.