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Pop Art. Pop Art. Based their work on images from Times Square neon signs, the mass media, and advertising. Pop Art. Pop art made icons of the crassest consumer items like hamburgers, toilets, lawnmowers, lipstick tubes, and celebrities.
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Pop Art • Based their work on images from Times Square neon signs, the mass media, and advertising.
Pop Art • Pop art made icons of the crassest consumer items like hamburgers, toilets, lawnmowers, lipstick tubes, and celebrities. • Pop artist made art impersonal, reproducing Coke bottles or Brillo boxes in a slick, anonymous style.
Pop Art • Pop became as much an overnight marketing phenomenon as a new artistic movement.
Andy Warhol- The Pope of Pop • He would mass produce images like Marilyn or Campbell’s Soup cans in an assembly-line fashion, repeating them by silkscreen duplication.
Andy Warhol- The Pope of Pop • “Once you see Pop you can’t see America in the same way.” • He was trying to make a point about the loss of identity in industrial society. • In his multiple images, endlessly repeated as in saturation advertising.
Roy Lichtenstein • Parodied the mindless violence and sexless romance of comic strips to reveal the inanity of American culture
Claes Oldenburg • Developed 3-D, large-scale blowups of familiar objects. • Believed ordinary objects contain a contemporary magic but we’ve lost appreciation of this because we focus on their uses.
Claes Oldenburg • Oldenburg’s soft sculptures are like 3-D versions of Dali’s limp watches.