POP ART

When you have Pop , you can never see a sign in the same way. And when you had think Pop, you will never look at United States the same way.

--Andy Warhol

Pop Art

Pop Art was an artistic movement developed at the end of 1950´sand begining of the 60´s, was a reflect of the quotidean life and common objects.

Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964, AWF

“Pop artists made images out of anything anyone could recognize on the streets in one second. . .”—Gretchen Berg.

Three Coke Bottles, 1962, AWF

Pop artists get away from the Abstract Expressionism, the artistic style that was on “fashion” on the late 50´s. The Expressionists evoque emotions, feelings and ideas through the formal art elements:• Line • Color• Shape• Form• Texture

Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950Carnegie Museum of Art; Donación de Frank R. S. Kaplan/ARS

Pop artists used common images of the quotidian culture, including:

Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962

• Propaganda

• Comsumism

• Celebritys

• Photographs

• Comics

Artists used bright colors, plain and compositions adapted from comercial designs as those found on:

•Cardboards

• Murals

• Magazines

• Diaries

Campbell's Soup II, 1969, AWF

Pop artists showed their culture , 60´s using new materials in their artistis work, which include:

•Acrilic painting

• Plastics

• Photographs

• Metalic and fluorescent colors

Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963

As well as new tecnologies and methods:

• Mass production

• Fabrication

• Photography

• Engraving

• SeriesClaes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962, Claes Oldenburg

Pop art brought the attention of many spectators, even thoigh they feel they were moking common people and their lives. It was hard for some people to understand why artists painted cheap objects, quotidian, when historically the function of art was to represent the ideals more valuable of culture.

Listerine Bottle, 1963, AWF

Andy Warhol was one of the most famous artists of the Pop culture. He used new technologies and new ways of making art which include:

• Photographic silk screen

• Repetition

• Mass Production

• Colaboration

• Mediatic Events

Andy Warhol, Brillo Boxes installation,

Warhol took (without autorization) images of diaries, magazines, and photographs of newspapers of the most popular characters of his time

Silver Liz [Ferus Type], 1963, AWF

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Warhol used repetition of mediatic events to critisize cultural ideas through his art

Pinturas Jackie, 1964, AWF

Warhol took equotidian lements and geve them the importance as “art”

Knives, 1981, AWF

What makes and art piece better than another?

Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964, AWF

Pop artist took further the definition of What can be artand how could it be done

“The pop idea , after all, was that anybody could make anything; naturally, then everybody tryed to make it all…” ---Andy Warhol

Fotografía de Hervé Gloaguen

The actual world of art shows many ideas, methods and materials started by the artistic movement Pop.

Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1991Cortesía de: Mary Boone Gallery, NY

En Untitled, 1991, Barbara Kruger uses the iconography of the United States

flag and graphics to ask a series of provocative questions about the USA

culture and its values.

En Rabbit, 1986, by the artist Jeff Koons, mass production. This sculpture was an icon in hte 80´s.

Jeff Koons, Rabbit, 1986, Jeff Koons