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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein was a pop art painter whose works were in a style that were based on comic strips. Using bright, strident colors, and techniques borrowed from the printing industry, he incorporated common emotions and objects into highly sophisticated references to art history. He died of pneumonia on September 29, 1997 at New York University Medical Center. -
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol introduced his obsession with mass culture to society and allowed it to become the subject of art itself. Using techniques like isolation, repetition and colour placement, Warhol showed the world his views on materialism, politics, economics and the media. Warhol's Campbell's soup cans are arguably one of his most famous Pop Art piece. He challenged "old fashioned" critics to look past their ideas of art as complex and incomprehensible by using simple and common images. -
Historical Event #3
Well known Pop Art artist were born around the time the stock market crashed and when the US entered into a Great Depression that lasted to the mid 1930's. So these artists grew up in a fast changing world that went from boom to bust to World War II in little over 10 years. When the war ended, in the 1950's, the people were coming across money that they could spend on new products that were being made. So they were able to see these products being advertised; that's what they were influenced by. -
Historical Event #1
The first application of the term Pop Art occurred during discussions among artists who called themselves the Independent Group (IG), which was part of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, begun around 1952-53. -
What Is Pop Art?
Pop art is a style of art that explores everyday imagery that's apart of contemporary consumer culture. Some common sources of imagery include advertisements, celebrity photos, and comic strips.
Pop art came to the US in the mid 60's, but it was born in Britian in the 1950's.
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Cambell's Soup Cans- Andy Warhol
It consists of thirty-two canvases. Each measuring 20× 16 inches and each consisting of a painting of a Campbell's Soup cans. The individual paintings were produced by a printmaking method, using a non-painterly style http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://4minutewriter.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/campbells-soup.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history/art-history-1960---age-of-post-colonialism/pop-art/v/andy-warhol-s-soup-cans--why-is-this-art&h=1824&w=2736&sz=2361&t -
Historical Event #2
In 1962 the world's first public exhibit of pop art was shown at the Pasadena Art Museum. The works included artists Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha, and Wayne Thiebaud. -
Andy Warhol- "Marilyn Diptych"
This piece of his work was completed during the weeks after Marilyn Monroe's death in August. It contains fifty images of the actress, which are all based on the same photo. The piece was painted on a 80.88 in × 114.00 in. canvas and he used acrylic paint; it was created in Tate, United Kingdom. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artchive.com/artchive/w/warhol/warhol_marilyn_diptych.jpg&imgrefurl=http://artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol/warhol_marilyn_diptych.jpg.html&h=703&w=990&s -
"Three Machines" - Wayne Thiebaud
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Roy Lichtenstein- 'Drowing Girl'
Roy used oil and synthetic polymer paint combined to create the astounding image. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pop-art-expert.com/image-files/roy-lichtenstein-drowning-girl.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pop-art-expert.com/Roy-Lichtenstein-Pop-Art.html&h=342&w=336&sz=39&tbnid=UITpeGyL0lsGLM:&tbnh=118&tbnw=116&zoom=1&usg=__wPO_mQ6GZ6XZoscdVwoLcbVCVoc=&docid=p_vbj1F_al9GVM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vi9rUZeZNpT89gSYlID4CA&ved=0CDgQ9QEwAg&dur=0 -
Laurie Justus Pace- "A Painting A Day"
Acrylic Paint on 30 in X 30 in. Canvas
