POP ARTEnglish 2012/2013Pedro Rocha

Before Pop Art…

Pablo Ruiz Picasso, The Young Ladies of Avignon, 1907.

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893.

Piet Moundrian, Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1921.

Modernism

Before Pop Art…

World War II

«Bourgeois– fascist»

«Degenerate»

Many intellectuals who escaped from the war in Europe, were welcomed and sponsored in United States. Example: A. Einstein; Salvador Dalí; (…)

The Origins…

Pop Art emerged in the mid-1950’s in Britain and in US in the end of the 50’s.

Eduardo Paolozzi, I was a Rich Man’s Plaything, 1947

In this collage, the word “Pop” makes it first apperance. Shortly thereafter, the movement was named Pop Art.

What is Pop Art?

POP ART

Pop Art is an art movement, which uses the imagery, styles, and themes of advertising, mass media, and popular culture.

Inspiration and ideas for Pop Art paintings were drawn from the commercial and consumer aspects of everyday life, particularly in American culture.

Pop Art paintings are easy to interpret, They do not have hidden symbolism. And this type of art is available to everyone.

 Is one of the earliest works to be considered "pop art".

Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, Richard Hamilton

The work was completed during the weeks after Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962. It contains fifty images of the actress, which are all based on a single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953).

Marilyn Diptych, Andy Warhol

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Green Coca-Cola Bottles, Andy Warhol

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Campbell's Soup Cans, Andy Warhol 

(1963)

Drowning Girl, Roy Lichtenstein

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(1963)

Whaam! ,Roy Lichtenstein

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(1962)

Still Life #20, Tom Wesselmann

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Great American Nude No. 98, Tom Wesselmann

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