POP ART

POP ART!

Pop Art is an art movement from the 1950s and 1960s,

developped in Britain and America

Pop Art began as response to the mass imagery - in the form of comic books, advertising, and the "everyday objects" - expressed in the popular culture of the time.

ANDY WARHOL

PORTRAITURE:

The word 'POP' was first coined in 1954, by the British art to describe a new type of art that was inspired by the imagery of popular culture.

AMERICAN POP ART

BRITISH POP ART

Artistic group “The Independent Group”, founded in London in 1952 =

the precursor to pop art.

• It was composed of painters, sculptors even architects,
• they took inspiration from LOGOS,MAGAZINES,COMICS;
• they focus on creating humorous pieces or on romanticising objects.

American Pop Art was both a development of Abstract Expressionism,=the first American art movement by the 1950's.

• IT'S THE RESULT OF THE DAILY PUBLICITY,the MASS PRODUCTION of everyday objects .
• it was brutal, aggressive and emblematic;
• they critised the contemporary society.
• aspired to an impersonal, urbane attitude in their works

JAMES ROSENQUIST

He was the most important artist of Pop Art ,known as the king of Pop Art.

He worked as a 'commercial artist',his inspiration derived from :

• advertising;
• comics;
• TV and the movies. 

He represented the SPIRIT OF AMERICAN CULTURE.

He used images of celebrities and consumer products;he made them more interesting. Warhol was fascinated by this banality which he celebrated in a series of subjects from celebrities to soup cans

Pop Art was young and fun and hostile, It included different styles of painting and sculpture from various countries.

Why POP Art?

Pop artists wanted to create a style of art that could make people understand an immediate meaning.

Artwork became anything!

• He became well known in the 1960s ;
• he changed the face of the art world;
• his works included major public and private institutions.
• he had a strong interest in the imagery of advertising and wanted to translate its power into his artwork

LICHTESTEIN

ROY

• he was born in NY;
• he was famous for his works connected to comic strips.
• Lichtenstein didn’t use mechanical techniques and his dots are really painted one by one;
• He was the opposite of Andy Warhol;
• he reproduced masterpieces by Cézanne and Picasso.

The creation of any portrait, an artistic representation of a person