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Pop Art

Pop Art

• Jasper Johns: targets, flags, numbers, letters• Richard Hamilton: Collage• Robert Rauschenberg: Assemblages• Roy Lichtenstein: Comics• Andy Warhol: Silk-screen mass media + videos• Claus Oldenberg: mass media sculptures

JASPER JOHNS, TARGET WITH FOUR FACES, WOOD, CANVAS, ENCAUSTIC, NEWSPAPER AND PLASTER 1955

As Johns explained, the imagery derives from "things the mind already knows," utterly familiar icons such as flags, targets, stenciled numbers, ale cans, and, slightly later, maps of the U.S.

assemblauge: recombining (assembling) “stuff” to create new meaning.

JASPER JOHNS, FLAG, 1954-55, NEWSPAPER, OIL, ENCAUSTIC

White Flag, 1955Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Encaustic, oil, newsprint, and charcoal on canvas

Johns, Three Flags, 1958, encaustic on canvas

Johns, Flag, (comp colors), 1965

The Seasons (Summer), 1987Jasper Johns (American, born 1930)Etching with aquatint

Jaspar Johns, Field Painting, 1963/64

Roommate with Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg, Estate,1963

Richard Hamilton, Just What is it

that Makes Today's Homes

So Different, So Appealing?

1956

aesthetic of popular culturepopular art + fine artinspired by Duchamp

mass media

advertising

advertising

advertising

popular culture

popular culture

mass media

HamiltonInteriorScreenprint, 1964

Robert Rauschenberg, Canyon, 1959ASSEMBLAGE

created “combines”combining painting with sculpture

“There is no no more subject in a combine [By Rauschenberg] than there is in a page from a newspaper. Each thing that is there is a subject. It is a situation involving multiplicity.” – John Cage

*found materials in trash – recontextualization

*viewers should find their own meaning

Duchampian

Rauschenberg, Odalisk, 1955-58

"Every time I would show them to people, some would say they're paintings, others called them sculptures. And then I heard this story about Calder," he said, referring to the artist Alexander Calder, "that nobody would look at his work because they didn't know what to call it. As soon as he began calling them mobiles, all of a sudden people would say 'Oh, so that's what they are.' So I invented the term 'Combine' to break out of that dead end of something not being a sculpture or a painting. And it seemed to work."

Odalisk combines oil paint, watercolor, crayon, pastel, paper, fabric, photographs, printed reproductions, miniature blueprint, newspaper, metal, glass, dried grass, steel wool, a pillow, a wooden post and lamps on a wooden structure mounted on four casters and topped by a stuffed rooster.

Rauschenberg, Estate, 1963oil, silk screen, collage

• primary colors

recognizable images

vs.

everyday images

Rauschenberg aimed in the silk-screened paintings “to make a surface which invited a constant change of focus and an examination of detail.”

Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963,oil, silkscreen, collage

Robert Rauschenberg Collage ProjectThis project is inspired by the collage techniques and visual aesthetics of Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Hamilton. You will need to consider what images are most iconic to the 21st century (Presidents, celebrities, electronics, politics, religions, etc.). Using only newspapers and magazines, create a collage in the style of Retroactive I & Retroactive II that speaks directly to life in 2014.

Requirements: 1. Use only images from newspapers and magazines: you may need to bring

some from home…2. Project must include primary colors from oil pastels, paint, colored pencils,

etc.3. The collage must be unique and creative (think about placement of images,

texture, cropping, etc.)4. Size must be 8.5 x 11 (printer paper size)5. We will work in class tomorrow and present the following day

Roy Lichtenstein

Hopeless, 1963 Oh Jeff…I Love You, Too…But…, 1964*benday dots

Lichtenstein, M-Maybe (A Girl's Picture), 1965

Lichtenstein, Blam, 1962

Green Coca-Cola Bott les, 1962, oil on

canvas

Andy Warhol

mass produced silk screen printswere sold to fund Warhol’s independent films.

“The Factory”

repetition causes numbness

Interview

Warhol, Campbell's Soup Cans, 1965, silkscreen

Merv Griffin Interview, 1965

Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads, 1964–1969

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, acrylic and silk screen 1962

Andy Warhol famously told Art News interviewer Gene Swenson, "The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do."

Liz #1 (Early colored Liz)acrylic and silkscreen

Warhol "was not after a picture-perfect, sharp-edged result; he wanted the trashy immediacy of a tabloid news photo."

Warhol, Elvis I & II, 1964

Independent Films by Warhol

Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger, 1981

Flesh, 1968

CLAES OLDENBURG

POP ART

one-person show at the Green Gallery, New York, 1962, stuffed and painted vinyl

Claus Oldenburg, Floor Cake, synthetic polymer paint and latex on canvas filled with foam rubber and cardboard boxes, 1962

After watching the short video on Floor Cake, answer the following questions:

1. What are your impressions on this work of art?

2. Do you like this piece? Yes/No WHY3. What makes this sculpture POP Art?

CLAES OLDENBURG

POP ART

Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks,

1969

Oldenburg, Claes, & Coosje Van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry, 1988

Oldenburg, Clothespin, 1976

Oldenburg, Coltello Knifeship II, 1986

Oldenburg & Van Bruggen, Torn Notebook, 1992-96