Pop Art Essay Research Paper West Hills

Pop Art Essay, Research Paper

West Hills Community College

POP ART

Art Appreciation 52

CONTENTS

I. POP ART 4

II. ANDY WARHOL 5

III. DAVID HOCKNEY 7

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Illustration 1 :Roy Lichtenstrin, Whamm!, Cover

2. Illustration 2 :Andy Warhol, Cambell Soup Can 6

3. Illustration 3 David Hockney, A Bigger Splash 7

POP ART

Art in which everyday objects and subjects are depicted with the

flat naturalism of advertising or comic strips. 1.

Pop Art, visual arts movement of the 1950s and 1960s,

principally in the United States and Great Britain. The images of

pop art (shortened from popular art ) were taken from mass

culture. The term Pop Art was first by the critic Lawrence

Alloway to describe those paintings that celebrate post-war

consumerism, defy the psychology of Abstract Expressionism, and

worship the god of materialism.2 This was an art which had

natural appeal to American artists, living in the midst of the most

blatant and pervasive industrial and commercial environment. For

the American artist, once they realized the tremendous

possibilities of their everyday environment in the creation of new

subject matter, the result was generally more bold, aggressive,

even overpowering, than in the case of their European

counterparts. Some artists duplicated beer bottles, soup cans,

comic strips, road signs, and similar objects in paintings, collages,

and sculptures. Others incorporated the objects themselves into

their paintings or sculptures, sometimes in startlingly modified

form. Materials of modern technology, such as plastic, urethane

foam, and acrylic paint, often figured prominently. As opposed to

the junk sculptors, the assemblage artists who have created their

works from rubbish, the garbage, the refuge of modern industrial

society, the pop artists deal principally with the new, the

“store-bought,” the idealized vulgarity of advertising, of the

supermarket, and of television commercials. One of the most

important artistic movements of the 20th century, pop art not only

influenced the work of subsequent artists but also had an impact

on commercial, graphic, and fashion design.3

American Pop art was first of all a major reaction against

abstract expressionism which had dominated painting in the United

States during the later 1940s and 1950s. During the later 1950s

there were many indications that American painting would return to

a new kind of figuration, a new humanism. Pop art brought art back

to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture in which

ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure from

television, magazines, or comics.

The paintings of Lichtenstein, and Warhol, share not only

an attachment to the everyday, commonplace, or vulgar image of

the modern industrial America, but also the treatment of this image

in an impersonal, neutral manner. They do not comment on the

scene or attack it like social realist, nor do they exalt it like the ad

men. They seem to be saying simply that this is the world we live

in, this is the urban landscape, these are the symbols, the

interiors, the still lifes that make up our own lives.

Andy Warhol, (1928-1987)

One of the greatest Pop Artist or more well known as a

direct representation of pop culture is Andy Warhol. He was born

in 1928 and grew up during the depression and all the political

shenanigans it had to offer during his life time(WW2, Watergate,

Marilyn Monroe, etc.). Unfortunately his life ended in 1987, and

no longer can he offer a fundamental yet understandable view on

every day life. He choose objects from daily American life as well

the faces of entertainers and of others with household names as

subjects for his pop art work. It made no difference if his subject

was of a object or personality, they were an inherent part of

postwar American culture Warhol s work advertised familiar

aspects of post war America, yet according to him it did not intend

to hold any hidden meaning, nor was it intended to criticize; the

work of Andy Warhol was meant to simply express, in an

unpersonal manner, how he perceived the world around him.

His technique used to create his images was silk

screening(a mechanical process that allows images to be

repeatedly endlessly). This machine-like element of the

silk-screen technique depicted appropriately the industrialized

postwar American culture which he had witnessed. Warhol had

expressed it as a culture overburdened by disturbance that

seemed to be repeated and recreated. Warhol had choose

popular figures as subjects for an almost mass production of

images, in a sense, dedicating his work his work to the world

around him whose identity is comprised not only if these fi

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