12.+Pop+Art

The term " PopArt " 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 art . Instead of Bible stories, myths or legends that had traditionally been the subjects of Fine Art , PopArt  featured the increasing spread of corporate marketing through Western culture as inspiration to make the subject of artwork. In PopArt , this type of subject matter was considered every bit as artistically worthy as the traditional subject matter of Fine Art . [|Pop Art Movie] media type="custom" key="11117396" align="center"
 * Pop Art **

**The Pop Art Movement ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Beginning in England in the mid-1950s and the United States in the early 1960s, <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">PopArt <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> focused on everyday objects rendered through an adoption of commercial <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 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 <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> establishment, <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Pop <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> artists whose works were displayed in museums effectively thumbed their collective noses at the distinctions between highbrow <span class="yellowfade" style="font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">art <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> and lowbrow <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: 19px;">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: 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;">
 * <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: **