Dyer B POP ART AND ANDY WARHOL PRESENTATION
POP ART AND
ANDY WARHOL
PRESENTATION
Benjamin Dyer
Arts/125
June 29,2015
Marianne Murawski
What is Pop Art ?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines
Pop Art as
An art form in which common objects such as road signs, hamburgers, comic strips, or soup cans are used as subject matter and are often physically incorporated in the work
A. Warhol Biography Overview
Born: Aug. 6, 1928 Died: Feb. 22, 1987
Was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960’s
Pop Art movement
He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, writing, and controversially blurred the lines of fine art and mainstream aesthetics He was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time by using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities
How Did Warhol’s Themes And
Subjects Examine American Culture
His life and work satirized and celebrated materiality as well as celebrity
His paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be seen as critiquing what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity
However, his own focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons along with his taste for money and fame suggest a life in celebration of these aspects of American Culture that his work was critizing
S&H Green Stamps
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This piece of art by Warhol showcased his career long fascination with ready made, reproducible imagery
To create this masterpiece he stamped an image of the S&H Green Stamp
Trading Coupon in three successive layers light green, dark green, and red using silkscreen ink.
This was a labor intensive three stamp process mimicked the more efficient process of screen-printing
The lack of a focal point in the work payed tribute to the allover compositions of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists
But with its banal motif and repetitive imagery this piece embodies a witty reproach to the grand heroic canvases of these
ANDY WARHOL
PRESENTATION
Benjamin Dyer
Arts/125
June 29,2015
Marianne Murawski
What is Pop Art ?
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines
Pop Art as
An art form in which common objects such as road signs, hamburgers, comic strips, or soup cans are used as subject matter and are often physically incorporated in the work
A. Warhol Biography Overview
Born: Aug. 6, 1928 Died: Feb. 22, 1987
Was a successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist of the 1960’s
Pop Art movement
He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations, writing, and controversially blurred the lines of fine art and mainstream aesthetics He was one of the most prolific and popular artists of his time by using both avant-garde and highly commercial sensibilities
How Did Warhol’s Themes And
Subjects Examine American Culture
His life and work satirized and celebrated materiality as well as celebrity
His paintings of distorted brand images and celebrity faces could be seen as critiquing what he viewed as a culture obsessed with money and celebrity
However, his own focus on consumer goods and pop-culture icons along with his taste for money and fame suggest a life in celebration of these aspects of American Culture that his work was critizing
S&H Green Stamps
•
•
•
•
•
•
This piece of art by Warhol showcased his career long fascination with ready made, reproducible imagery
To create this masterpiece he stamped an image of the S&H Green Stamp
Trading Coupon in three successive layers light green, dark green, and red using silkscreen ink.
This was a labor intensive three stamp process mimicked the more efficient process of screen-printing
The lack of a focal point in the work payed tribute to the allover compositions of Jackson Pollock and other Abstract Expressionists
But with its banal motif and repetitive imagery this piece embodies a witty reproach to the grand heroic canvases of these