2. • The Pop Art movement was created by the
“Independent Group” in London, during
1952.
• The Independent Group was a group of
artists from the Institute of Contemporary
Art.
• The movement lasted until the early
1970’s, when the Modernist art movement
came to an end.
3. INFLUENCES ON POP ART
• “The Sixties”
• Social Revolution with Counterculture
• Music
• Communism
• Television
• Dadaism- Pop Art is similar to Dadaism in the sense
that it uses everyday objects and presents them as
art.
• Fauvism
4. INFLUENCES ON POP ART (CONT.)
• It was a reaction to Abstract Expressionism.
• American Pop Artists, Jasper Johns and Robert
Rauschenberg were the frontrunners, and credited
for the transition between Abstract Expressionism
and Pop Art.
5. OVERALL CHARACTERISTICS
• Absorbs consumerism and focuses on everyday
objects, and/or people.
• Lots of cultural references, to Britain, as well as the
USA.
• Reproduced, Duplicated, Combined, and Mass
Produced.
• TV, Magazines, Newspapers, and Hollywood.
6. OVERALL CHARACTERSITICS (CONT.)
• Optimistic
• Bright Colors
• Pop Art was the art of popular culture.
• “Pop” was first used by British art critic Lawrence
Alloway.
• Alloway, along with Richard Hamilton and Eduardo
Paolozzi were the founding members of the
“Independent Group.”
7. RICHARD HAMILTON (1922-2011)
• English painter.
• Member of the Independent Group in London.
• Arranged his art in a loose way, like a collage.
• Generally “busy” paintings, but also has some
“bare” paintings.
• Basic color schemes, kind of based off Abstract
Expressionism with representational colors.
8. WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES TODAY’S HOMES SO
DIFFERENT, SO APPEALING?
RICHARD HAMILTON, 1956
13. ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997)
• Was influenced by comic books and popular
advertising.
• Heavily influenced by Dadaism.
• Also used basic color schemes, but used a lot of
detail.
• Taught art at Rutgers University.
14. QUOTE FROM LICHTENSTEIN
• “I don’t think that Pop (art) would have existed
without Dada have existing before it, but I don’t
really think that Pop (art) is Dada. I don’t think that I
look on my work as being anti-art or anything that’s
different from the mainstream of painting since the
Renaissance.”
19. ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925-2008)
• An American Pop Artist
• Worked on a wide range of “art.”
• Painter, Sculptor, Photographer, Printmaker.
• Most well known for his “combines” in paintings and
sculptures.
• “Painting is more like the real world if it’s made out
of the real world.”
24. ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
• The most well known Pop Artist, an American.
• Worked in an extremely wide range of art.
• His work was controversial, and explored
relationships between celebrities, artistic
expression, and advertisement.
• He was openly gay before the Gay Liberation
Movement.
25. QUOTE FROM WARHOL
• “What’s great about this country is that America
started the tradition where the richest consumers
buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You
can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you
know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor
drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink
Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount
of money can get you a better coke than the one
bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the
same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows
it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you
know it.”
29. CLAES OLDENBURG (1929-PRESENT)
• A Swedish-American sculptor.
• He was most well-known for his public installations of
everyday objects.
• His work was controversial and disliked by many
people at first, much like Duchamp.
• “I like to take a subject and deprive it of its function
completely.”
36. JASPER JOHNS (1930-PRESENT)
• An American Pop Artist who primarily painted and
used printmaking.
• Influenced by Fauvism.
• Became “long term lovers” with Robert
Raushenberg.
• Together, they did a couple pieces, that relied on
conventional symbols in their art.
