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A Lesson in the American Artistic Movement;

A Lesson in the American Artistic Movement; . Pop Art . Pop Art . n.  A form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration. pop-art ( pŏp'ärt ').

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A Lesson in the American Artistic Movement;

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  1. A Lesson in the American Artistic Movement; Pop Art

  2. Pop Art n.  A form of art that depicts objects or scenes from everyday life and employs techniques of commercial art and popular illustration.pop-art (pŏp'ärt') Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  3. When+ Where A visual art movement that emerged in the 1950s and was popular in the 1960s in the United States. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as television, movies, advertising and comic books. Food was a common theme, but so were household objects. Pop artists liked to satirize or ridicule objects, sometimes enlarging those objects to gigantic proportions . These objects reflected mass culture and consumerism. The movement was marked by clear lines, sharp paintwork and clear representations of symbols, objects and people commonly found in popular culture. What How

  4. Who Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Claes Oldenburg Robert Rauschenberg Tom Wesselmann

  5. Andy Warhol“Campbell’s Soup”1968 Andy Warhol“Sixteen Jackies” 1964

  6. Roy Lichtenstein “Whaam!” 1963 Roy Lichtenstein “Hopeless” 1963

  7. Roy Lichtenstein “Brush Stroke” 1996, enlarged and fabricated 2002-03

  8. Tom Wesselmann “Still Life #24” 1962 Tom Wesselmann "Smoker number 1 (Mouth number 12)" 1967

  9. Robert Raushchenberg “Signs” 1970

  10. Claes Oldenburg “Spoonbridge and Cherry” 1985-1988 Claes Oldenburg “Dropped Cone” 2001

  11. Summary of Major Themes in Pop Art • Subjects are often easily recognizable and reflect popular items, people or ideas from American Culture: • Food • Brand Names and products • Iconic Figures • Common, everyday household items • Current events • Stylistically pop art can be defined as: • Simple, crisp lines • Oversized images or objects • Often reflects and copies the styles seen in the media • Collages of popular images • Bright Colors • Some work re-creates the same subject in • several pieces or within the same piece

  12. Everday Pop Art Assignment • Objective: Create an Illustrator piece that follows themes inspired from pop art: • Clean, sharp lines • Bright Colors • Close-up and oversized subjects • Products or iconic figures • Thought Bubbles • Easily recognizable subjects • Techniques: • Tracing objects w/ pen tool • Flat color

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