European Post-World War Two Figuration

Pop Art

POP ART BEGAN IN LONDON

Eduardo Paolozzi (British, 1924-2005), Real Gold, collage, 14 x 19 in., 1950, British Pop

Richard Hamilton (British,1922-2011) Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? Collage (photomontage), 10 x 9”, 1956, KunsthalleTübingen, Tubingen, Germany. British Pop

Hamilton defined Pop Art in 1957:

"Pop Art is: popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business."

Jasper Johns (US, b. 1930), Three Flags, encaustic on canvas, 2’7” x 3’10”, 1958, Proto-Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Jasper Johns (American, b.1930), Painted Bronze, hand painted cast bronze, 1960, Proto-Pop (Neo-Dada)

Andy Warhol, 32 Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, acrylic on canvas, screened with hand painted details, 20x16 in. ea (lower right) Ferus Gallery installation, Los Angeles,1962: Warhol’s first gallery show. Five canvases sold for $100 each in 1962, but Irving Blum, co-owner of Ferus, bought them back to keep the set intact and later donated them to MoMA NYC

http://www.moma.org/audio_file/audio_file/1110/OE_24_CampbellSoupCans_edit.mp3

Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga (1967) silk-screening in the Factory, located on the fifth floor at 231 East 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The Factory moved to 33 Union Square West in 1967. Warhol used silkscreen from 1962 on.

(right) Warholstars group portrait by Gerard Malanga, 1968(?); (left) film still and poster for Warhol's film Exploding Plastic Inevitable, 1966, with the Velvet Underground. The Andy Warhol Museum owns 273 Warhol films and almost 4,000 videotapes.

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am… There’s nothing behind it.” - Andy Warhol

Warhol, (left) Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962, acrylic, silkscreen and oil on canvas; (right) Marilyn, 1962. Series followed Monroe’s (probable) suicide in August 1962.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Diptych, 1962, acrylic silkscreen on canvas

Andy Warhol, 210 Coca-Cola bottles, 1962, Silkscreen, ink & synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 6’10” x 8’9”

(left) Roy Lichtenstein, Hopeless, 1963, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 3’8” square(right) Tony Abruzzo, a panel from comic book “Run For Love!” in Secret Hearts, no. 83, 1962, DC Comics

James Rosenquist (US, b. 1933) two views of F-111, oil on canvas and aluminum, 23 sections, 10 x 86 feet, 1964-5The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Collage-sketchfor F-111

Installation view of James Rosenquist’s F-111 at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1965.

Wayne Thiebaud (US, b. 1920), Five Hot Dogs, 1961, o/c, 18 x 24 in, Whitney Museum of American Art. Pop Art.

Thiebaud served as an artist in the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1945. Thiebaud earned a BA degree from Sacramento State College in 1941 an M.A. degree in 1952.

Wayne Thiebaud (US, b. 1920), Pies, Pies, Pies, oil on canvas, 1961, 20 x 30 in.Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Pop Art

Niki de Saint-Phalle, Hon ("She" in Swedish), 1966. 6 ton colossus (82'/20'/30'). With Jean Tinguely and Per Olaf Ultvedt as a temporary installation at the Moderne Museet, Stockholm. One of a series of “Nana” sculptures

The Carnivalesque

Betye Saar (b. Los Angeles, 1926) The Liberation of Aunt Jemima mixed-media assemblage, 1972Berkeley Art Museum collection

Betye Saar in 1979

Robert Rauschenberg (US, 1925-2008) Canyon, 1959, oil, pencil, paper, fabric, metal, cardboard box, printed paper, printed reproductions, photograph, wood, paint tube, and mirror on canvas with oil on bald eagle, string, and pillow, 6’10” x 5’10’, assemblage. Neo-Dada

Detail of Canyon

Edward Kienholz (US, 1927-1994), Back Seat Dodge ’38 (two views), 1964, tableau with truncated Dodge and mixed materials (plaster casts, beer bottles, chicken wire, artificial grass, etc.) Los Angeles Funk

Claes Oldenburg, The Store, Dec. 1, 1961 - Jan. 31, 1962, Ray Gun Mfg. Co., 107 East Second Street, New York. Roast Beef, 1961, inside studio/store (with artist), view looking out, poster, Green Gallery sponsor.

“I am for an art that is political-erotic-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.”

Claes Oldenburg, Soft Toilet, 1966; Dormeyer Mixer,1965, Pop or Neo-Dada

Claes Oldenburg, Giant Lipstick, erect (left) and limp (center), Yale University, 1969. Anti-Vietnam war

Robert Arneson (US, 1930-1992),Typewriter, 1966, glazed ceramic, around 6 x 11 x 12,” UC Berkeley Art Museum. Funk Art (Pop inspired)

Robert Arneson, John with Art, 1964, glazed ceramic with polychorme epoxy, life size, Seattle Art Museum. Funk art