波普艺术.ppt

波普艺术.pptPop Art
Once you “got” Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again.
--Andy Warhol
Pop Art
Pop Art was an art movement in the late 1950s and 1960s that reflected everyday life and common objects. Pop artists blurred the line between fine art and commercial art.
Brillo Soap Pads Box, 1964,  AWF
“Pop Artists did images that anybody walking down the street could recognize in a split second…all the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried so hard not to notice at all.”—Gretchen Berg.
Three Coke Bottles, 1962,  AWF
The Pop artists moved away from Abstract Expressionism which was the “in” style of art in the 50s. The Abstract Expressionist evoked emotions, feelings and ideas through formal elements such as:
Line
Color
Shape
Form
Texture
Jackson Pollock, Number 4, 1950
Carnegie Museum of Art;
Gift of Frank R. S. Kaplan/ARS
Pop Artists used common images from
everyday culture as their sources including:
Roy Lichtenstein, Masterpiece, 1962
Advertisements
Consumer goods
Celebrities
Photographs
Comic strips
Pop Artists used bold, flat colors and hard edge compositions adopted from commercial designs like those found in:
Billboards
Murals
Magazines
Newspapers
Campbell's Soup II, 1969,  AWF
Pop Artists reflected 60’s culture by using new materials in their artworks including:
Acrylic Paints
Plastics
Photographs
Fluorescent and
Metallic colors
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive II, 1963
As well as new technologies and methods:
Mass production
Fabrication
Photography
Printing
Serials
Claes Oldenburg, Floor Burger 1962,  Claes Oldenburg
Pop art was appealing to many viewers, while others felt it made fun of common people and their lives. It was hard for some people to understand why Pop Artists were painting cheap, everyday objects, when the function of art historica