1. pop art grid paintings
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Pop Art
• International movement• Originated in 1950s London
– British Pop Art satirized/or celebrated consumer culture
• American Pop Art really began in the 1960s– Relationship between using pop culture for inspiration and
using new technologies to make art out of it (mass printing)
• Referred to a movement where art using imagery from pop culture was becoming “Fine Art”– Advertising– Science Fiction Illustration– Automobile styling
Pop Art
• Artist Richard Hamilton Defined Pop Art as:
– Pop = Popular = Designed for a mass audience
– Transient = Short term solution
– Expendable = Easily forgotten
– Low Cost
– Mass Produced
– Aimed at Youth
Pop Art
• Looked for hidden connotations in imagery of:
– Advertising
– Pop culture
– Magazines
– Packaging of consumer products
– Film and cinema
Pop Art
• Appropriation
• Taking something for your own use without the owner’s permission
• Using/recycling images from pop culture/mass production
– With little change in the original image!
– Jasper Johns would use “things the mind already knows” and change little things like color, context, or medium to produce a new way of seeing something blandly familiar
– Robert Rauschenberg created 2D/3D “combines” (collages) of newspapers, magazines, and found objects (often just off the street!)
– Both encouraged artists and viewers to really think about the subject matter in their environment and what it really communicated
American Pop Art
• American Pop Art Style:
– Bold, flat colors
– Centralized compositions
– Very contemporary images
Some American Pop artists made their own art mass produced, cheap, and expendable (Andy Warhol prints)
Assignment Option 1
• Select a celebrity and create a grid painting in the style of Andy Warhol. (Celebrity because we are studying Pop Art and they are “pop icons”)– Must be high contrast
– Use bright and/or unnatural colors
– If you want to work with a group, everyone must do the same celebrity image in different colors (each student must complete his or her OWN painting!!!)
Assignment Option 2
• Select someone to transform into a comic book character and create a grid painting in the style of Roy Lichtenstein
– Focus on the FACE
– Must include a text bubble (with appropriate text!)
– Must be painted in the style of Lichtenstein: using dots and thick outlines
Example for Assignment Option 2, but needs a text bubble, and this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a
comic book character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!
Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book
character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!
Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book
character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!
Example for Assignment Option 2, but this is already a comic book character…remember, you will be transforming someone into a comic book
character, not using someone who already IS a comic book character!!!
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