POP ART

ANDY WARHOL AND FRIENDS

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Pollock’s Legacy – Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe• Critic Clement Greenberg said that Pollock advanced

the line of abstraction’s logical progress toward its supposedly destined goal of expressing the essential visual qualities of painting without any extraneous literary content.

• Introduction of painting as an art object

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

A painting movement in which artists typically applied paint rapidly, and with force to their huge canvases in an effort to show feelings and emotions, painting gesturally, non-geometrically, sometimes applying paint with large brushes, sometimes dripping or even throwing it onto canvas. Their work is characterized by a strong dependence on what appears to be accident and chance, but which is actually highly planned. Some Abstract Expressionist artists were concerned with adopting a peaceful and mystical approach to a purely abstract image. Usually there was no effort to represent subject matter. Not all work was abstract, nor was all work expressive, but it was generally believed that the spontaneity of the artists' approach to their work would draw from and release the creativity of their unconscious minds. The expressive method of painting was often considered as important as the painting itself.

ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM

Very male

• Hard drinking men looking to find a way to express themselves through paint in a feminine world

1940s - WWII

Popular 1950s – Post-WWII

1958

• Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg have a show in NYC

TERMSAvant-garde

•the advance group in any field, esp. in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.

Vernacular

•using plain, everyday, ordinary language

POP ARTAn art movement and style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s. Pop artists have focused attention upon familiar images of the popular culture such as billboards, comic strips, magazine advertisements, and supermarket products.

POP ART

In Britain 1950s

• The Independent Group• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi• John McHale

• Focused on popular culture images

POP ART

In the US 1960s

• Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg• NYC show

POP ARTISTSJasper Johns

Robert Rauschenberg

WHITE FLAG

WHITE FLAG

Jasper Johns White Flag - Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock by Kirk Varnedoe

• Started countercurrent to abstraction• Advent of pop art• New imagery or return to real• Revival of Duchamp and Dada

Roy Lichtenstein

Lichtenstein actually painted the dot patterns and speech balloons from comic books and newspaper reproductions, in large, meticulously rendered frames. He also introduced much needed humor, making fun of himself and the art world.

OTHER KEY PLAYERSIvan Carp and Leo Castelli

Irving Blum

Henry Geldzahler

ANDY WARHOL

Andy Warhol reveled in the indirect process of printmaking that simulated mass production. He frequently used photographic silkscreen techniques to give a mechanical look, removed from the personal touch of artist’s own hand. His studio, “The Factory,” as he referred to it, often included numerous assistants. His works present a sort of portrait of America in the sixties- products, people and symbols in a cool and detached view. The question never answered by Warhol is whether he was criticizing or celebrating popular culture.

CHILDHOOD CHURCH

BYZANTINE CATHOLIC ICONS

BYZANTINE CATHOLIC ICONS

BYZANTINE CATHOLIC ICONS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/andy-warhol/career-timeline/45/

SILKSCREENING PROCESShttp://warhol.org/interactive/silkscreen/main.html

WARHOL FILMS

"IN THE FUTURE EVERYONE WILL BE FAMOUS FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES."

ELVIS & LIZANDJFK ASSASSINATION

DRELLAAndy Warhol’s public persona

THE FACTORY

THE FACTORYFirst studio outside of his home

An old firehouse

Became home to The Warhol Superstars

THE FACTORY

THE FACTORY

THE FACTORY

THE FACTORY

SUPERSTARSBilly Name

SUPERSTARSBaby Jane Holzer

SUPERSTARSBrigid Berlin

Edie Sedgwick

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

THE VELVET UNDERGROUNDLou Reed

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND