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Pop Art. Term to refer to “popular” or mass culture Images so commonplace we hardly notice them even though we absorb them totally Artists working in many different styles. Andy Warhol. “Pope of Pop” Began as a commercial artist
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Pop Art • Term to refer to “popular” or mass culture • Images so commonplace we hardly notice them even though we absorb them totally • Artists working in many different styles
Andy Warhol • “Pope of Pop” • Began as a commercial artist • Believed that in a culture where we are overwhelmed w/ information, mostly thru TV and print there is no longer a need for emotional , meaningful art • "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
100 Cans, 1962 • They are about sameness • Same brand, same size, same paint surface, same fame as product • They mimic the condition of mass advertising
Campbell’s Soup is something that every American can experience, no matter how rich or poor you are we all get the same, mass-produced soup
No matter who you are we all experience the same Coca-Cola • No one can get a different, or better Coca-Cola
Not only are we bombarded by advertisements, but images of celebrities are pounded into our heads, we are forced to look at them daily
By repeating the same image, Warhol mimics how society is flooded with these images from the media
Claes Oldenburg • Used found materials to make sculptures of objects around him • Enlarged ordinary household objects
Shoestring Potatoes Spilling from a Bag • “Soft sculpture” – surrealistic effect • Enlarged proportions • Illustrates the impact that fast food restaurants have on the American society
1965 – begins his “monument” proposals • A single object was to be enlarged to gigantic scale and installed at a specific site
Wanted viewers to stop and think about the products of the industrial and commercial culture • Wants to call attention that we have come to rely on these products
Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1988Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, 1969-74Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut