2. TIMELINE: POP ART

3. Pop Art referred to art that was determined by popular culture Popular culture refers to common people that are uneducated about art Pop art was mass produced Especially on Pulp paper – low quality paper, like news paper, used to print pulp magazines and pulp fiction novels Mass production: to manufacture in large quantities Pulp magazine: made from wood pulp and contained fiction narratives

4. Richard Hamilton His work was a social commentary and critique of American popular culture that thrived in the wake of WWII. He used similar scale paper collage to make his Proto-Pop Art pieces The source material he used to create his pieces is advertising from pulp magazines. His work commented about the mass- production of the same objects and their position of prominence in America. Scale: a relative size relationship Collage: a composition created by pasting paper materials over a surface

5. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? Richard Hamilton 1956

6. This collage is done in a single scale, so all items are proportionate. It is a comment on the taste that Americans have (in comparison to the British). Hamilton is saying that Americans are inferior when it comes to matters of décor.

7. ACTIVITY With your group, provide an explanation about each of the following items listed – answering the question: What is the purpose of the item being in the collage? 1.The moon 2.The movie theatre/film 3.The servant and the vacuum 4.The Ford emblem 5.This romance novel cover 6.The can of ham 7.The lamp shade 8.The man 9.The tootsie pop

8. Reflect about the content of Richard Hamilton's collage, and write a paragraph about how it made you feel. Did you find it clever? Did you find it entertaining? Did you find it offensive? Identify your feelings and write. Reflection:

9. POP ART: Robert Indiana

10. Robert Indiana’s work is second tier art work. He made Pop Art that everyone liked

11. Love Robert Indiana 1972

12. This is the “quintessential Pop Art piece.” Quintessential: Representing the most perfect or typical example

13. “It is the most powerful thing in the world. What else could be better to sculpt?”

14. POP ART: Roy Lichtenstein

15. Pop artists manipulate scale Lichtenstein did this by painting on very large canvas Lichtenstein created large images in order to comment on how society constantly looks at mass produced images.

16. Roy Lichtenstein Lichtenstein was an illustrator because his teacher Reginald Marsh was an illustrator. a person who draws pictures to accompany a printed, spoken, or electronic text

17. Roy Lichtenstein When illustrating, Lichtenstein worked in series : A number of related works of art made in succession The first series he created was the Comic Book Series

18. Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein 1963 Significance of: Use of color Outlining Subject matter

19. Roy Lichtenstein After his Comic Book Series, Lichtenstein moved to a melodrama series Melodrama: a romance series, like a soap opera, but much more dramatic Melodramatic: behaving, speaking, or done in a way that is more dramatic, shocking, or highly emotional than the situation demands

20. Drowning Girl Roy Lichtenstein 1963

21. Ben Day invented the four color print process. The four color print process was used to print comic books and pulp magazines It was a mechanical process for the mass production of imagery. When Lichtenstein painted his Melodrama Series, he hand-painted dots to create color and represent the printing process of the era. These dots were called Ben Day Dots How he created these works:

22. Kiss V, Roy Lichtenstein 1964

23. The two colors visually mix together to create another color. This is called optical color mixing. Crying Girl, Roy Lichtenstein 1963

25. Once Lichtenstein became famous, he hired assistants to help him paint the Ben Day Dots. He created a stencil for his assistants to follow. When the assistants got sloppy with the creation of the dots, Lichtenstein wanted to go back and hand-fix all of the dots to perfection. Hand-fixing took way too long, so Lichtenstein invented magna: an oil and water based media. The oil allowed it to be constantly manipulated because it dried so slowly but like acrylic – when it did dry – the color was brilliant.