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Page 1: Pop Art - naeaworkspace.orgnaeaworkspace.org/session_handouts_12/Pop+Art.pdf · Pop art is an art movement that ... comic book imagery. Most of his artwork looks like it ... heavy

Pop Art

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Pop art is an art movement that

started in the mid 1950’s. It’s

subject matter was based on our

new culture of mass everything.

We now had mass production,

mass consumption and mass

media. The artists of the time

took a satirical look at our new

throw-away society.

Some of the leading artists were

Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstien,

Claus Oldenberg, Wayne

Thiebaud and Jasper Johns.

Most of these artists used pop

images or symbols in their

artwork.

Andy Warhol’s “Campbell Soup Can”

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There are many different

styles in Pop Art. This artist’s

name is Claus Oldenburg. He

works mostly with vinyl to

make limp objects, such as

Floor Cake or on an extreme

scale like Spoonbridge and

Cherry.

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Jasper Johns used popular

symbols to make his art. He

wanted to make the viewer think

about what art was. Is the flag

art? Someone did have to

design it. When we see it, we

don’t see lines, shapes and color

anymore because it is an icon.

What do we see instead?

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Wayne Thiebaud often painted pies, pastries, candy and ice cream.

He liked to use bold colors and use thick layers of oil paint so the

painting was more three-dimensional.

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Andy Warhol is the

most famous Pop

artist. Among his

most recognizable

art are his

Campbell soup

cans, portraits of

iconic figures like

Marilyn Monroe,

James Dean, Elvis

and Jackie Onassis

Kennedy. Most of

his artwork was

printed by a

technique called

screen printing. He

dubbed his studio

“The Factory,”

where he had many

assistants doing

much of the artwork

for him.

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Roy Lichtenstien is the

artist that we will be

focusing on in our project.

He was enthralled with

comic book imagery. Most

of his artwork looks like it

could be in a comic book.

He also uses text to create

a comic book feel.

Sometimes the text comes

in the form of dialogue and

others it is a “wiz” or

“bang” or a number of

different onomatopoeia.

He uses bold colors,

heavy shading, and half-

tones or Ben-Day dots as

coloring techniques.

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In this painting, you can

see the Ben-Day dots

very well. This is a type

of printing process named

after illustrator Benjamin

Day. Ben-Day dots are

colored dots that can be

widely spaced, closely

spaced or even

overlapped to give

different colors. They use

cyan, magenta, yellow

and black. The idea for

Ben-Day dots comes

from Pointillism.

Also, notice the block

shading that Lichtenstien

uses to create the comic

book feel.

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References

• Museum of Modern Art www.moma.org

• Tate Museum www.tate.org.uk

• Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org

• Artcyclopedia www.artcyclopedia.com

• The Roy Lichtenstien Foundation

www.lichtenstienfoundation.org