12.+Pop+Art

[|Pop Art Movie] media type="custom" key="11120242" **The Pop Art Movement ** Beginning in England in the mid-1950s and the United States in the early 1960s, PopArt  focused on everyday objects rendered through an adoption of commercial art  techniques. In so doing, artists availed themselves of images and ideas culled from popular culture — such as movies, comic books, advertising and especially television — and faithfully reproduced in all their mass-produced glory. By making use of what had been dismissed as kitsch by the art  establishment, Pop  artists whose works were displayed in museums effectively thumbed their collective noses at the distinctions between highbrow art  and lowbrow art . **Artists and Examples ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Although Andy Warhol was not the first artist to mine advertising for <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, he has remained the best-known practitioner of <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PopArt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">. In paintings such as //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">200 Campbell's Soup Cans // (1962) and //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Marilyn Monroe Diptych // (1962), Warhol tried to elevate mechanical reproduction to Fine <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> status, enraging some critics even as buyers eagerly bought up his work. Similarly, Roy Lichtenstein turned to the comic strips of his youth to inspire his garishly bright <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> that depicted sensational action or drama formed by the same kind of enlarged printer's dots that were used on cheap newsprint, and he reaped great success in the process.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 19px;">Pop Art ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The term " <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PopArt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">" was coined by English art critic Lawrence Alloway in the late 1950s. He used it to describe what he viewed as a contemporary shift in subject matter and techniques of <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">. Instead of Bible stories, myths or legends that had traditionally been the subjects of Fine <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PopArt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> featured the increasing spread of corporate marketing through Western culture as inspiration to make the subject of artwork. In <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PopArt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, this type of subject matter was considered every bit as artistically worthy as the traditional subject matter of Fine <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">.

**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Andy Warhol: **



** Roy Lichtenstein **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">For this lesson you are going to find a portrait of a person that you would like to be the subject of your very own Pop Art. The photo needs to be at least 600x600 pixels and it can be a self-portrait if you wish. You can also take a photo of someone you know or use a photo from the Internet. Along with the photo you are going to include a quote using text that the person has said, so think of someone inspirational. It could be anyone. You are going to change the image from a realistic photo to a monochromatic simplified pop art picture. You will also play around with the text and incorporate a quote that correlates with your subject. You will create a background that may incorporate brushes or custom shapes. Select a color scheme and create an interesting composition.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lesson Summary: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pop Art Requirements: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Portrait uses monochromatic color scheme
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Interesting background that compliments the portrait
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Appropriate text that is easy to read and correlates with the portrait
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use of benday dots
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use of desaturation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Use of overlay
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">5 sentence artist statement


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Example: **