Pop Art

And ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG inspiredmixed media collage

*Pop art came from abstract expressionism.Abstract Expressionism-an American post World War II art movement.

*Spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation

*Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.

SHORT FOR POPULAR ART .Artists create colorful images of social figures, ideas, products of the time

*use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture

* isolates the object, or combines it with other objects

*The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

Pop art sometimes includes kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony

Kitsch-deliberate use of elements that may be though of as cultural icons while making cheap mass-produced objects that are unoriginal

*Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

•Worked gap between art and life

•Saw no medium- from painting and collage to photography, and printmaking

•Integrated things and ideas together

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

•COMBINES: Trash, found objects integrated them into work

**Surprise and generosity of finding surprises.

***The object itself was changed from its context and therefore it became a new thing!

Windward, 1963

•Bright colors, patriotism, wonder.

• The photos represent many facets of American life including •the statue of liberty (repeated)• the eagle• rainbow• buildings• Sunkist oranges•one section even has what looks like a water tower and a building on fire.

Signs, 1970

Signs was, according to the artist, "conceived to remind us of love, terror, violence of the last ten years. Danger lies in forgetting.”

"Retroactive I," 1963

Robert Rauschenberg, Overdrive, 1963

CriteriaWhat word or phrase did you choose?__________________Did you complete 3 possible compositions?______ Circle one: Is it a: virtue emotion phrase Circle: Did you include at least one of the following: symbol experience Please Check off as you complete each X_Formal aspects of art:________shape, _______color,________ texture ________rhythm, ________emphasis, _________movement, _______unity Composition-Rule of Thirds _______On intersections or on lines of imaginary grid_______Touch 3 of 4 sides_______Near center, not on center Arrangement of print-off pictures, magazine pieces, newspaper, etc. as well as DRAWINGS OR WATERCOLOR PAINTED IMAGES _______Must have at least one large image, one medium image, and two smaller images- *At least four all together* ______Two of the four MUST BE DRAWN OR PAINTED!

MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE

Happiness

CriteriaWhat word or phrase did you choose?_________________ Did you complete 3 possible compositions? Circle one: Is it a: virtue emotion phrase Circle: Did you include at least one of the following: symbol experience Please Check off as you complete each X_Formal aspects of art:________shape, _______color,________ texture ________rhythm, ________emphasis, _________movement, _______unity Composition-Rule of Thirds _______On intersections or on lines of imaginary grid_______Touch 3 of 4 sides_______Near center, not on center Arrangement of print-off pictures, magazine pieces, newspaper, etc. as well as DRAWINGS OR WATERCOLOR PAINTED IMAGES _______Must have at least one large image, one medium image, and two smaller images- *At least four all together* ______Two of the four MUST BE DRAWN OR PAINTED!

MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE

RESOURCES:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism

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