1. Pop Art

2. Pop Art-A art movement which was characterized by references to imagery and products from popular culture, media, and advertising – 1950s to the 1970s Pop Artists reproduced, juxtaposed, or repeated mundane, everyday images from popular culture—both absorbing and acting as a mirror for the ideas, interactions, needs, desires, and cultural elements of the times. MoMA Pop Art Theme

3. Appropriation-the intentional borrowing, copying, and alteration of preexisting images and objects for a certain aim

4. Their aim was to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. Writers in the 1700s drew a line between work that is contemplated purely for aesthetics (fine art) and work that has some sort of utility or function (craft). – High art is appreciated by those with the most cultivated taste. – Low art/ culture is for the masses, accessible and easily comprehended. There is a problem with this way of thinking – The fine art view holds in esteem one way of interacting with art— aesthetic contemplation. However, art had other functions before the fine art distinction was made and continues to have those functions now. Art can instruct, entertain, mystify, propagandize and frighten to name just a few. However, the fine art approach reserves the status of “good” for work that is primarily aesthetic. – Contemplation is the highest and purest goal for art. Other functions of art are considered somehow impure. Hence the loaded words high and low, which simultaneously classify and judge.

5. Pop artists reacted to the manufacturing and media boom after WWII Embrace – Some critics say that Pop art choice of imagery is an endorsement of the capitalist market and the goods it circulated Critique – Others have noted an element of cultural critique in the Pop artists' elevation of the everyday to high art: tying the commodity status of the goods represented to the status of the art object itself, emphasizing art's place as, at base, a commodity.

6. Pop Culture Popular Culture-Cultural activities, ideas, products, or people that reflect or target the tastes of the general population of any society

7. Brainstorming With your table, come up with at least 5 Popular Culture references other than the ones you have already seen in class….GO!

8. American Artists in the Pop Art Movement Andy Warhol – Started as a graphic artist and magazine illustrator – His main “pop art” pieces represent mass produced items and people as “high art” Roy Lichtenstein – Played with the boundaries of high and low art by reproducing popular comic book images on oil and canvas changing them slightly

9. Andy Warhol Andy Warhol. Untitled from Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn). 1967

10. Andy Warhol. Campbell’s Soup Cans. 1962 MoMA Pop Art Theme

12. Roy Lichtenstein. Drowning Girl. 1963 MoMA Pop Art Theme DC Comics. Cover illustration for the comic story “Run for Love!”, from Secret Love #83, 1962. Roy Lichtenstein

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTsbJcr9VI

14. Roy Lichtenstein Blam

15. Your Project… Using Pop Art color schemes and style, choose a popular culture reference and make a mass production painting Requirements: – Choose a pop culture reference – Create a least 4 reproductions of the same image on 1 canvas – Each in matching but different color schemes Using only primary colors to mix Minimum 3 colors/ reproduction using only primary colors to create palette

17. Steps 1.Choose your pop culture reference…an object, brand, logo, person 2.Get a reference image 3.Create a contour outline of that image showing value changes an form within object 4.Create sketch/ plan -Painting must have 4 different parts each showing the appropriated object -Each part must have a color scheme 5.Transfer sketch to canvas 6.Start painting!