Pop Art

1. Pop Art

2. What is Pop Art? • Pop Art is an art movement that began in the UK in the mid 1950s and spread to the United States in the late 1950s before becoming very popular in the 1960s. • Pop Art uses brightly coloured images and themes that are popular in the world. This includes famous celebrities like film stars and rock stars. Also items like soft drink cans and comic books are used. • The artists use these items to create art by repeating them over and over again, changing the colour or texture of the item or putting different items together to make a picture. • It is a design that can be mass printed easily

3. Pop Art flourished in America in the 60s and 70s thanks to artists like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns • Roy Lichtenstein (1923 -1997) used comic strips as the subject for his paintings while Jasper Johns used the image of the American flag in most of his artworks along with targets and numbers

4. Andy Warhol • Andy Warhol was a American artist and a leading figure in the Pop Art movement. He began his career as an illustrator for a magazine but soon began to make pop art. • Warhol is famous for creating brightly coloured images of celebrities and images of mass produced items such as soup tins and Coca-Cola bottles. He used stamps, stencils and screen-printing to make multiple copies of his work. • "In the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” is a famous quote from him and was said in the programme for a 1968 exhibition of his work in Stockholm, Sweden

5. Warhol's studio was called The Factory. It was a social hub for artists and musicians such as Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. In 1968 a member of the Factory attempted to assassinate him, but he survived. • His best known works include Campbell's Soup Tins, Marilyn Monroe and 129 Die in Jet (Plane Crash), which was taken from a newspaper photograph