Pop art

origins

• mid 50's; prime 60's
• London and New York

Characteristics

• use of popular images, icons
• i.e. celebrities, singers, commercial items
• repetition of item or person
• changing color or texture
• combining different items

Andy WArhol

• Aug 6, 1928 - Feb 22, 1987
• first gen. american: Pittsburgh
• pop culture & popular commercial adv.
• outcast due to sickness
• commercial illustrator

Campbell's Soup Cans

marilyn monroe

Roy Lichtenstein

• 1923-1997
• Ohio State University
• highly simplified colors, Ben Day dots
• comic strip themes and styles

whaam

takka takka

james rosenquist

• 1933 Grand Forks, North Dakota
• won scholarship Minneapolis School of Art
• studied Art

leaky ride for Dr. leakey

f-111

cites

• https://www.moma.org/collection/details.php?theme_id=10170
• http://www.ducksters.com/history/art/pop_art.php
• http://art-bydens.blogspot.com/2012/08/ten-famous-pop-art-artists.html#.U1_...