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Pop Art

Pop Art. Gala Poster / Gala Postcard. Pop Art.

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Pop Art

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  1. Pop Art Gala Poster / Gala Postcard

  2. Pop Art • Pop Art was the art of popular culture. It was the visual art movement that characterized a sense of optimism during the post war consumer boom of the 1950's and 1960's. It coincided with the globalization of pop music and youth culture, personified by Elvis and the Beatles. Pop Art was brash, young and fun and hostile to the artistic establishment. It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries, but what they all had in common was an interest in mass-media, mass-production and mass-culture.

  3. British Pop Art • The word 'POP' was first coined in 1954, by the British art critic Lawrence Alloway, to describe a new type of art that was inspired by the imagery of popular culture. Alloway, alongside the artists Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi, was among the founding members of the Independent Group, a collective of artists, architects, and writers who explored radical approaches to contemporary visual culture during their meetings at ICA in London between 1952 and 1955. They became the forerunners to British Pop art.

  4. 'I was a Rich Man's Plaything', one of the 'Bunk' series, was the first visual artwork to include the word 'POP'. EDUARDO PAOLOZZI (1924- 2005)'I was a Rich Man's Plaything' , 1947 (collage)

  5. Some young British artists in the 1950’s, who grew up with the wartime austerity of ration books and utility design, viewed the seductive imagery of American popular culture and its consumerist lifestyle with a romantic sense of irony and a little bit of envy. They saw America as being the land of the free - free from the crippling conventions of a class ridden establishment that could suffocate the culture they envisaged: a more inclusive, youthful culture that embraced the social influence of mass media and mass production. Pop Art became their mode of expression in this search for change.

  6. Richard Hamilton’s collage of 1956, ‘Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?’ is the ultimate catalogue of pop art imagery: comics, newspapers, advertising, cars, food, packaging, appliances, celebrity, sex, the space age, television and the movies. RICHARD HAMILTON (1922- 2011)'Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?'1956 (collage)

  7. American Pop Art • Pop art in America evolved in a slightly differently way to its British counterpart. American Pop Art was both a development of and a reaction against Abstract Expressionist painting. Abstract Expressionism was the first American art movement to achieve global acclaim but, by the mid-1950's, many felt it had become too introspective and elitist. American Pop Art evolved as an attempt to reverse this trend by reintroducing the image as a structural device in painting, to pull art back from the obscurity of abstraction into the real world again.

  8. Around 1955, two remarkable artists emerged who would lay the foundations of a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. They were Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, the forerunners of American Pop Art.

  9. JASPER JOHNS (1930-)‘Three Flags', 1958(encaustic on canvas)

  10. JASPER JOHNS (1930-)'Numbers in Color', 1958-59(encaustic and newspaper on canvas)

  11. Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) ‘Retroactive I’, 1964, (Oil and silkscreen ink on canvas)

  12. Warhol - from Celebrities to Soup Cans ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)‘Marilyn Diptych’, 1962 (silkscreen on canvas)

  13. If there was one artist who personified Pop Art it was Andy Warhol. He originally worked as a 'commercial artist' and his subject matter was derived from the imagery of mass-culture: advertising, comics, newspapers, TV and the movies. • Warhol embodied the spirit of American popular culture and elevated its imagery to the status of museum art. He used second-hand images of celebrities and consumer products which he believed had an intrinsic banality that made them more interesting. He felt that they had been stripped of their meaning and emotional presence through their mass-exposure.

  14. Whether it was a painting of 'Campbell's Chicken Noodle' or a 'Car Crash', a portrait of 'Elizabeth Taylor' or the 'Electric Chair', Warhol's detached approach was always the same: "I think every painting should be the same size and the same color so they're all interchangeable and nobody thinks they have a better or worse painting." Warhol saw this aesthetic of mass-production as a reflection of contemporary American culture: "What's 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 know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is 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." The obvious irony of this statement is that the price of that Coke bottle hits the stratosphere as soon as Warhol signs it.

  15. ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)‘Liz #5’, 19623 (silkscreen on canvas)

  16. ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)‘Tomato’, 1968

  17. Gala Poster/ Postcard • Now that you have a BRIEF history of POP Art, you will be creating a poster and postcard for the Greeley Central High School Gala, using Pop Art as your style. • You will not be repeating Pop History, but recreating the Pop style using popular images of 2013. • Somewhere in your design you must include the ALL POPULAR MR. KOLOKOFF! • You can “borrow” ideas from any of the artists mentioned earlier, or come up with your own ideas.

  18. What Are the Key Characteristics of Pop Art? • Recognizable imagery, drawn from popular media and products. • Usually very bright colors. • Flat imagery influenced by comic books and newspaper photographs. • Images of celebrities or fictional characters in comic books, advertisements and fan magazines.(Mr. Kolokoff)

  19. Gala Poster • Adobe PhotoShop Document • 8.5 X 11 or 11 X 8.5 • CMYK • 300 Resolution • Mr. Kolokoff’s face must be somewhere on the postcard • Theme of “Pop Art” and “Illuminate” combined!

  20. Gala Postcard • Adobe PhotoShop Document • 5X7 or 7X5 • CMYK • 300 Resolution • Mr. Kolokoff’s face must be somewhere on the postcard • Theme of “Pop Art” and “Illuminate” combined!

  21. Gala Poster And Postcard Information • Greeley Central High School Performing and Visual Arts Magnet Program Presents: • What- The Annual Spring Arts Gala • Theme- “Illuminate” • When- Thursday April 25, 2013 7Pm 6PM Lobby Art Show • Where- Union Colony Civic Center, 701 10th Ave. Greeley, Co • Call 970-356-5000 For tickets, $1 • Come check out our talented artists from our AMP classes; dance, orchestra, jazz band, acting, and choir along with an extensive art exhibit in the lobby.

  22. FOR MORE EXAMPLES OR IDEAS GOOGLE “POP ART POSTERS”

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