What is “Pop Art” ? An idea created in the 60’s by anti-establishment artists (who wanted to create art for the masses).

What is “Pop Art” ? An idea created in the 60’s by anti-establishment artists (who wanted to create art for the masses). Based on the idea that art has always, and should continue to reflect what is important to the popular culture (every-day common people). –Should show objects that are part of the popular culture. –Should use methods that are part of the popular culture. –Should reflect the attitude of popular culture.

What was popular in America? Mass production and Industrialization… –assembly lines, plastics (comic books) Throw away, disposable products… –plastic, cardboard (Coke bottles and soup cans) Celebrities, movie stars, athletes… –Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Kennedy

Andy Warhol Major innovator of the idea of Pop Art. Used Screen-Printing to create images… –It was an industrial, common means of mass production. –It was cheap, fast and disposable (like Pop Culture).

Perhaps Andy Warhol’s best know image… The Campbell’s Soup can. He created many many of these images, in singles and series.

He did however, also create sculpture.

Other artists during the same time period also created Pop style work, including much sculpture.

ROB RAUSHENBURG Helped popularize the idea of the “readymade”. –The found object as art because of presentation. The way its was shown or “presented” to the public was more important than what it was.

The ready made...

“Riding Bikes” Berlin

MERET OPPENHEIM A member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and other writers, film makers, musicians and visual artists.

MARCEL DUCHAMP A French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. –Duchamp signed this urinal and placed it on the wall of a gallery, saying it was ‘art” because he said it was, and presented it as art.

MARCEL DUCHAMP He pushed the idea of making people look at familiar objects in new ways. –Examining an object based on its form, not its function.

Your task... Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular culture)... And turn this object into a piece of art. –Make people look at it differently by presentation and/or modification. Emphasis its form over its function. It doesn’t matter what it does as much as what it looks like.

Your task... Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular culture)... And turn this object into a piece of art. –Make people look at it differently by presentation and/or modification. Changing its physical appearance to alter the way people look at it.

PES KABOOM Watch the two video’s by Pes to see some examples of everyday objects seen in new ways and given new life.