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AMERICAN Portfolio POPART ART One of the United States' major artistic movements of the 20th century. It made real the breaking down of barriers that had existed for hundreds of hears between high art and mass culture . Refers to the products
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POP ART MOVEMENT
One of the United States' major artistic movements of the 20th century.
First coined in Britain in 1955.
Refers to the products of the mass media evolving in the late 1950s and 60s and also to the works of art that draw upon popular culture: Packaging, Television,
AdvertisEments, Comic books, the Cinema.
It made real the breaking down of barriers that had existed for hundreds
culture.
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POP ARTISTS :
As mentioned before, Pop Artists favoured commercial methods of production, not dissimilar to the subjects they were using, as it meant that unlimited reproductions could be made.
CHRISTO
Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, Allied Chemical Tower, New York Color lithograph with collage of fabric, thread, transparent polyethylene, staples, photograph, map, and masking tape; charcoal and color additions.Environmental installation artist and painter of architectural landscape drawings Become known for "wrapping" famous buildings and geographical landmarks with plastic and woven-fabric sheets.
AllanD'Arcangelo
Beginning Lithograph with silkscreen and embossing 1975American painter and printmaker. His reputation as a Pop artist was established by his first New York
“Flat and impersonal style” allowed him to suggest an illusionistic space without sacrificing the viewer’s consciousness of the picture plane.
Jim Dine
Oil of Gladness Heliorelief woodcut, softground etching and spitbite etching with hand coloringDrawings, sculptures, graphics, collages and assemblages he combined different techniques with handwritten texts and words and set real everyday objects against undefined backgrounds.
Mel RAMOS
Tobacco Rose (from 11 Pop Artists portfolio, Vol. II) Screen print on wove paper 1965He developed a specific kind of Pop Art iconography by combining nude pin-up girls from American magazines and advertisements with branded products.
Andy Warhol
Campbell"s Soup II (New England Clam Chowder) Screenprint on white paper. 1969Warhol began with Coke bottles and comic strips .In December 1961 He displayed his canvases of Campbell's soup, one canvas for each
He discovered the process of silk screening.
Edward Ruscha
America Whistles: America the Third Century Lithograph 1975In 1962 he completed his first picture using three-dimensional lettering, Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights. He designed the layout for the art magazine Art Forum, using the pseudonym Eddie Russia. He produced further books and the silk-screen print Hollywood.
James Rosenquist
Roll Down Lithograph on Rives BFK paper 1965-1966Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture (often funny, vulgar, and
art. His specialty is taking fragmented,
combining, overlapping, and putting them on canvases to create visual stories.
Alex Katz
Pas de deux Color screenprint 1994-1995He developed his style in the portrait works of ordinary people from the late 1950s. In the 1960s Katz’s works became more realistic and were executed in a smoother, more impersonal style. After the 1960s he continued producing similar figure paintings as well as prints.
Jasper Johns
Ale Cans Color Lithograph 1964His work is often described as a Neo-Dadaist, as opposed to pop art, even though his subject matter often includes images and objects from popular culture. Early works were composed using simple schema such as flags, maps, targets, letters and numbers.
Tom Wesselmann
Smoker Study #39He rejected abstract expressionism in favor of the classical representations
He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephermera in an effort to make images as powerful as the abstract expressionism he admired.
Robert Indiana
Heliotherapy Love Color Screenprint on 4-ply rag board 1995His early works were inspired by traffic signs, automatic amusement machines, commercial stencils and old trade names. He became known for silkscreen prints, posters and sculptures which took the word LOVE as their theme.
Larry Rivers
Although influenced by the Abstract Expressionists, as this painting's size and gestural style reveal, Larry Rivers remained committed to portraying recognizable figures.
Astaire in the Air sceenprint 1995 Claes Oldenburg
Son of a Swedish Consul General Best known for his monumental public sculpture in which he takes commonplace, everyday items such as silverware, food, and machinery and transforms them in surprising and humorous ways.
Bride Mannikin, Muslin soaked in plaster over wire frame, painted with enamel 1961 Red Grooms
American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life. Besides painting and sculpture, Grooms is also known for his prolific printmaking.
Red Grooms and Mimi Gross Oil on Canvas 1967 Roy Lichtenstein
Prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. He himself described pop art as, "not 'American' painting but actually industrial painting".
Drowning Girl used the splash page of a romance story in DC Comics' Secret Hearts #83 Roy Lichtenstein 1963 Get pop art
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Wikipedia website : Christo, AllanD’Arcangelo
,Jim dine ,Mel Ramos, Andy Warhol ,Edward Ruscha ,James Rosenquist ,Alex Katz, Jasper Jones, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, Larry Rivers, Claes Oldenburg, Red Grooms and Roy Lichtenstein Index http://en.wikipedia.org/
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