Pop Art

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Pop Art

• Leland High School Sculpture
• Spring 2006

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Pop Art Subject matter

• The subject matter of Pop Art is rooted in
  everyday life it mirrors contemporary reality
  and provokes and reflects upon cultural change.

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What is Pop Art?

• The term for an influential cultural movement of
  the sixties.
• Pop Art is a style of art which explores the
  everyday imagery which is part of contemporary
  consumer culture. Common sources include
  advertisements, consumer product packaging,
  celebrities, and comic strips.

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Examples of student work
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• Whats great about this country is that America
  started the tradition where the richest consumers
  buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
  You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you
  can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz
  Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink
  Coke, too. A Coke and no amount of money can get
  you a better Coke than the one the bum on the
  corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same
  and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it,
  the President knows it, the bum knows it , and
  you know it.
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  Andy Warhol

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Pop Artists
George Segal
Clas Oldenberg
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
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• George Segal
• American Pop Sculptor, 1924-2000

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• Lichtenstein became known to an enormous public
  as "the guy who paints comics," but in fact the
  comic-strip phase of his work was quite brief it
  lasted from 1961 to 1965, after which he moved on
  to other subjects and themes.

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• In 1960 he made his first pictures based on
  comic-strips and company trade names. In 1962 he
  produced his silkscreen prints on canvas of
  dollar notes, Campbell's Soup cans, Marilyn
  Monroe, etc.

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Claes OldenburgSwedish/American Pop Sculptor,
Born 1929

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Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenbergs work frequently is called a
combine. A combine is a painted surface with
three-dimensional found objects, fragments from
newspapers and magazines, postcards, and other
scavenged imagery. Eventually, Rauschenberg
began to create combines less than paintings than
sculptural assemblages with intermittent areas of
paint,two-dimensional clippings, and pictures
glued to the surface, plus found objects such as
tires, umbrellas, suitcases, and in one
celebrated instance, a stuffed sheep.
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The key aspect of Rauschenbergs combines is the
artists fearless use of disparate, seemingly
unrelated real world materials salvaged from
junk heaps, mass media, and his own life, unified
by his keen sense of composition into a single
work that manages to be both organized and messy,
arbitrary yet peculiarly logical.

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Andy Warhols soup can
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Jasper Johns Pop Art Flag is a direct reference
to the signs of everyday life.
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Clas Oldenberg
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George Segals Walk Dont Walk

• Cast from life
• Addresses the anonymity and isolation of urban
  street life

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Lichtensteins reference to comic books benday
dots
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Clas Oldenburg

• He bases his sculptures on everyday objects but
  modifies their function and meaning by giving
  them extremely large dimensions, making them out
  of different materialshard becomes soft and soft
  becomes hard-and giving them new colors.

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Clas Oldenbergs soft sculptures
Cardboard toilet
Soft toilet
Soft telephone
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The Store by Clas Oldenberg
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Cake with a dripping caramel sauce

• Slab technique
• Cut 2 triangles
• Cut 3 rectangles
• Create a crumbly texture

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Curves like this lend themselves to coil technique

• Look to details
• Be sure it is hollow with
• newspapers inside

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A giant strawberry!

• This shape lends itself to coil technique
• Dont forget newspaper on the inside

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A huge stack of pancakes
Slab technique
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Ice-cream bars with animal prints!

• Zebra
• Cheetah
• Giraffe
• Tiger

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Pineapple

• Use coil technique
• Newspaper inside

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Slab
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Slab technique and hollow inside

• Add details of lettuce etc. on outside
• No solid hamburgers!

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Oldenburgs Giant Hamburger
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Oldenburg tie in Frankfort Germany
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