Pop Art
Pop Art began in the late 1950s but became most popular in the 1960s.
It originated in England then led to an influence for Artists in the United States.
Pop Art got it's name from the focus on Popular Culture.
Such things as the Western, and Science Fiction movie genre drew attention as well as billboards (advertising), and machines (technology).
Pop Art Artists were concerned with the impact of technology and commercialization on society. These were considered to be, by Pop Art Artists, as anti- aesthetic.
Sources were objects and visual modes of consumer society and the impact of popular culture and mass media on artistic consciousness. This view challenged the traditional ideal of making each canvass a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Do one of the following.
1. Robert Rauschenburg is an example of an artist that expanded the Pop Art theme and came up with the idea of "Junk Art" which was a statement
dealing with the final stage in an objects life cycle- from manufacture to functional use to uselessness as waste.
Junk Art was deliberate junk transformed in to art by either: selection, reorganization, or presentation without commitment.
Create a piece of art by transforming a "junked" object. Consider: reorganization, and selection. It should focus on the life cycle or final stage of
an object.
2. Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton concerned themselves with constructing work without any controversial intention. Simply focusing on
commercialization (the idea of mass production), or exploitation and objectification through technology (people as commodity).
Create a piece of art which illustrates either a) quantity at the sacrifice of quality,
b) exploitation for commercialization
c) product as international icon.
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Andy Warhol Portraits Activity- See below
3. Roy Lichenstein worked with comic strip images and advertisements done large with flat colours and hard lines, in the stylistic fashion of the
comic book.
Construct a painting that imitates this style.
4. Richard Hamilton worked with collage. He was interested in examining the world in which we live- the great city, and the objects that surround us.
Create a pastiche' in this fashion.