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B E G I N N I N G S

• Pop Art was developed in the 1950s first with the Independent Group in London that included Richard Hamilton

• New York, Los Angeles, France (Nouveau Realists), Germany (Capital Realists)

• Originated out of Post Impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism, Abstract Expressionism, Social Realism

I was a Rich Man's Plaything (1947)Eduardo Paolozzi

The Green Stripe (1905)Matisse

Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland

(1964)

Richard Hamilton

Squares with Concentric Rings (1913)Wassily Kandinsky

Marily Monroe (1962)Andy Warhol

The Red Horseman (1974)Roy Lichtenstein

Red-Blue-Yellow (1925)Kandinsky

C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S

• Emotionally cold towards its subject

• Inspired by pop culture, media, advertisements, popular images, cartoons

• New focus on mass consumerist, materialist art

• Emphasis on color, energy, and youth

• New mediums due to new technology (mass production, silk screen, printing, Technicolor, etc.)

Liz #5(1963)Andy Warhol

In the Car (1963)

Roy Lichtenstein

Green Coca-ColaBottles(1962)

Andy Warhol

R I C H A R D H A M I L T O N

• Began painting at St. Martin’s School of Art

• Entered Royal Academy but dropped out

• Spent two years at Slade School of Art

• Exhibited art at the Institute of Contemporary Art

• Taught at the Central School of Art and Design

• Joined the Independent Group in London

(1922 – 2011)

I D E A S & T E C H N I Q U E S

• He made paintings, drawings, collages, prints, and miscellaneous crafts

• He was influence by Post-War Britain

• His art focused on superficial emptiness of consumerist culture

• He expressed cold distaste for the fashionable culture

• He reflected boredom and passiveness in his art

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956)

RichardHamilton

Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?

Portrait of Hugh

Gaitskell as a Famous

Monster of Filmland

(1964)

RichardHamilton

Epiphany (1964), Richard Hamilton

My Marilyn (1965), Richard Hamilton

Kent State(1970)Richard Hamilton

Release (1972), Richard Hamilton

Swingeing London III (1972), Richard Hamilton

𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐘𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐋

1928

1987

BiographyAndrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh

Began to work as a commercial artist, usually under the name Andy Warhol. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, he illustrated a great variety of published projects, and designed department store windows.

In 1952 Warhol’s first solo exhibition, “Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote,” was held at the Hugo Gallery, New York.

Books A Is an Alphabet

Love Is a Pink Cake,

Self-published the illustrated book 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy,

Wild Raspberries, a cookbook of absurd recipes

A Gold Book, with many drawings based on Wallowitch’s photos

Poor Little Rich GirlVinylKitchen LupeOuter and Inner SpaceMy HustlerThe Velvet Underground

Bike Boy IA ManThe Nude RestaurantBlue MovieNico The Chelsea Girls

Films

Sprite Heads Playing Violins

1948

Female Costumed Full Figure

1950s

Lips (stamped)

1950s

Marilyn Monroe

1962

Green Coca-Cola Bottles

1962

Campbell’s Soup 1964

Elvis Presley (1963)

Liz #5 (1963)

Brillo Soap Pads Box (1964)

Jackie Kennedy (1964)

Flowers (1979)

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ANDY WARHOLINTERVIEWS

R-R-R-ROY FOX LICHTENSTEIN

(1923 – 1997)

Influences

• Consumerism– Comic book strips and advertising

• Similar to Duchamp and Ready-Mades• Dadaism– Uses subjects of the mundane

Elements of his art

• Comic book style– Bright primary colors– Ben-Dey Dots– Hard and bold lines– Captures movement

• Parodies!

Look Mikey (1961)

Girl with Ball (1961)

Drowning Girl (1963)

Drowning Girl (1963)

Ben Dey Dots

In the Car (1963)

Whaam! (1963)

Compositions II (1964) Tire (1962)

Roto Broil (1961) Kitchen Range (1962)

Yellow Brushstroke I (1965)

Little Big Painting (1965)

The Red Horseman (1974)

Figures with Sunset (1978)

Bull I (1973)

Bull III (1973)

Bull VI (1973)

Bauhaus Stairway (1932)

Bauhaus Stairway (1988)

The Dance (1909)

Artist's Studio “The Dance” (1974)

C O N C L U S I O N

"Pop art is popular (designed for a mass audience), transient (short term solution), expendable (easily forgotten), low cost, mass produced, young (aimed at youth), witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, big business."

- R I C H A R D H A M I L T O N