1. The Pop Art Movement
Alyssa Rollins, Leila Haddad, and
Mona Patel

2. Pop art is:
Popular (designed for a mass audience).
Transient (short-term solution).
Expendable (easily-forgotten). Low
cost. Mass produced. Young (aimed at
youth). Witty. Sexy. Gimmicky.
Glamorous. Big business. This is just
the beginning…
Richard Hamilton in a Letter to Alison and Peter
Smithson, 16 January 1957

3. Origin
• Timeline: mid 1950’s to early 1970’s (time of
economic prosperity)
• Concept first originated in Britain in early 1950’s
by the Independent Group
• The word pop has several origins
• Link to Marcel Duchamp

4. Pop Art
• Aimed to blur the line between traditional art
and popular culture (between “high” and “low”
cultured art).
• Themes of daily object, mass media, and
repetition, everyday life
• Coincided with Abstract Expressionism

5. Richard
Hamilton, Just
What Is It
That Makes
Today’s Homes
So Different,
So Appealing?
1956

6. Andy Warhol
• 1928-1987
• Fashion illustrator, painter, sculptor,
filmmaker, producer of the Velvet
Underground, magazine publisher,
philosopher, historian, diarist, model,
photographer, and archivist.
• Started off as commercial artist
• One of the founding fathers of the pop art
movement
• Themes: Campbell soup cans, Marilyn Monroe,
Brillo pads, disasters
• The Factory
• Shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas

7. 100 Cans, 1962

8. Marilyn Ditych, 1962

9. Gold Marilyn
Monroe (1962)

11. Orange Disaster 1963

12. Techniques Andy Warhol Used
• Silk-screening
• Repetition

13. The Artist
• “My work is largely concerned
with relations between seeing
and knowing, seeing and
saying, seeing and believing”
Jasper Johns, 1965

14. Flag 1954

15. MAP 1962

16. Paintings
• In 1955, Jasper
Johns created a
series of
paintings of
single numbers
called figures.

17. Is a number really a number?
• By choosing a number as
a subject matter, Johns
deprived them of their
practical
function, reinventing
them as formats for
movements of
paint, color, line, and
surface.

18. Paint by Numbers

19. Painted bronze, 1960

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21. Roy Lichtenstein
• Born in New York City on October 27, 1923
• Grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
• Inspired by advertisements and comic strips
• Bright, graphic images parodied popular culture
• Died in New York City on September 29, 1997

22. Girl with Ball,
1961
Roy
Lichtenstein

23. “This was the first time
I decided to make a
painting really look like
commercial art. The approach
turned out to be so interesting that
eventually it became impossible to
do
any other kind of painting.”
-Roy Lichtenstein

24. Look Mickey, 1961
Roy Lichtenstein

25. Donald Duck: Lost
and Found, 1960
Look Mickey,
1961

26. Drowning
Girl, 1963
Roy
Lichtenste
in

27. Whaam!, 1963

28. Bedroom at Arles, 1992

29. Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, 1888

30. Summary
• Dealt with painting, printmaking, and sculpture
• Originated in the mid-1950s
• Major artists in the United States include:
▫ Andy Warhol
▫ Roy Lichtenstein
▫ Jasper Johns
• Major artist in Britain:
▫ Richard Hamilton
• Difference between U.S. and Britain’s pop art is
the U.S. seemed more united