Chapters 37-38

What is Pop Art?

Elite Culture

Popular Culture

Postwar Consumerism

Andy Warhol• Cult figure• Celebrated the

“everyday”• Materialism• Psychological

intensity

• Cow wallpaper, 1966• Campbell Soup Can,

1964

Andy Warhol, Elvis, 1962-1966

Andy Warhol• Mint Marilyn

Monroe, 1962

Andy Warhol

• Self-portrait 1985

Louise Nevelsen

• White Vertical Water, 1972

• Used discards from industry to “construct” assemblages, influenced by cubism

Roy Lichtenstein “Blam” (1954)

Roy Lichtenstein, In the Car (1955)

Claes Oldenburg, Pastry Case, 1961-1962

Source: MOMA

Louise Nevelsen, Sculpture

• “I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it’s a painful, difficult search within.”

Frank Stella, Empress of India (1965)

An example of minimalist painting – also called “contentless” painting Source: MOMA

• Critics say that Nevelson’s art is authentic because it uses objects, while Warhol’s art is less authentic because it uses images. Do you agree?

• “True subject of a photorealist work is the way we unconsciously interpret photographs and paintings in order to create a mental image of the object represented”

--Artcyclopedia

New Realism

New Realism

Photorealism

Chuck Close

• Lucas, 1987

Chuck Close

• Phil, 1969• 9 x 7 feet

Richard Estes, Hotel Empire, 1987

“When you look at a space or an object, you tend to scan it. Your eye travels around and over things. As your eyes move, the vanishing point moves, to have one vanishing point or perfect camera perspective is not realistic.” Estes

• “Seeks to transform society by awakening its visionary potential” --Fiero (150)

Social Conscience Art

Global context

Social Conscience Art

Social Conscience

Film

Jasper Johns

Flag

1954-1955

Robert Rauschenberg• Bed, 1955• 6’3: x 31’3”• Paint splashed over

‘dream fabric’• Considered ACTION

painting

Robert Rauschberg

• Buffalo II, 1964• 8 x 6 feet

Edward Kienholz

The State Hospital

1964-1966

Edward Kienholz• Backseat Dodge,

1938

• Next: The Portable War Memorial, 1968

Kienholz: The Portable War Memorial

Source: http://www.beatmuseum.org/kienholz/edkienholz.html

Judy Chicago • The Dinner Party (1974-1979)

– Setting for 39 women with 999 names of women as supporting tiles

– Chicago: “Meant to end the ongoing cycle of omission in which women were written out of the historical record”

– Represents each woman with place setting featuring plates in butterfly or flower shape, representing the woman’s vulva

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinner_Party

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979

• Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other’s shoulders and building upon each other’s hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Basquiat

• Native Carrying Some Guns, Bibles, Amorites on Safari, 1960s

Robert Rauschberg

• Riding Bikes, 1999

Sources

• Mark Hardin’s ARTCHIVE

• Nevelson at Guggenheim online

• Judy Chicago at Women’s History