Roy Litchenstien was an American Pop artist born in 1923 that was known predominantly in the 60’s. He is one of the more well-known Pop artists like Warhol. His work is mainly comic strip style paintings like “drowning girl” and “Whaam!” The paintings are comprised of prominent dots and are often parodies of pop art itself. They often have humorous captions or speech bubbles. He also uses primary colors a lot and bright/stark shapes and lines. I usually don’t like comic type work but I like his work for some reason. They have a nostalgic feel for me from reading comics as a kid.
David Hockney
Hockney was born in England in 1937 and was part of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He has lived in California for part of his life (1963-2005) which is where he began his pop art career painting sunny landscapes with vivid color and using magazine-like images. Something interesting about Hockney is that he has synesthesia, which is a disease that causes a person to see color when listening to music or sometimes associating color with letters and numbers. He is also openly gay which has influenced some of his pieces such as “We Boys Together Clinging” and “Domestic Scene, Los Angeles.” Hockney has worked with photocollage as well as seen below.
Artist: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol started out as a successful magazine and ad illustrator. In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of “pop art”—paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell’s soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.
Weber was born in Chicago, IL in 1932 but was adopted and grew up in Illinois and California. From a young age, she was very creative and this was probably helped by her mother taking her to visit the Art Institute of Chicago on a weekly basis. Weber herself spent much of her time copying Brenda Starr and Dick Tracy comic books while her favorite works in the collections of Rembrandt and Edward Hopper. She was also exposed to the works of Matisse, Rodin, and Degas, while in high school she observed Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock. She went to an art school with full tuition covered and made her career painting. She came to know many of the well-known pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and other Pop artists through her contacts at the Castelli Gallery. Weber herself “taught graduate drawing and painting at NYU in the 1970s and would later teach art at Harvard University, the Art Barge in Amagansett, NY and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, where she was also artist-in-residence.”
Pop Art – Romero Britto
Romero Britto was born in Recife, Brazil in 1963 and is now an internationally known pop artist. He is commonly known for the vibrant colors and patterns he uses in his work. This style communicates happiness, love, warmth, hope and optimism about the world. With eight brothers and sisters, Britto grew up modestly and used art as an creative outlet. Britto had no formal teaching as he self taught himself to paint using cardboard, newpaper and any other available scraps as his canvas. In 1983, Britto ventured to Paris and eventually ended up coming to the US, specifically Miami, due to the expansion and uprising of Pop Art. From there, he was able to join Andy Warhol and Keith Haring in the campaign for “Absolut Art” by Absolut Vodka in 1988. His work has been exhibited in over 100 countries; in 2013, Britto was invited as the first living artist to exhibit at Museo Soumaya. He recently has been in collaborating with other brand name companies such as Audi, Disney, World Cup and many more! Along with being an amazing, upbeat artist, Britto also is an activist for charitable organizations. He donates time, art and resources to over 250 organizations. Currently, Britto is in the process of developing ways to show how powerful art is in communicating critical issues around the world.
Rasuchenberg was a Texas-born, American painter whose art helped catalyze the pop art movement. He was most famous for his unique way of combining non traditional materials in a series of work called his “combines.” This collage style is thought to be inspired partly from his mother, who was extremely frugal and used scraps to patch together to make their clothing. He was very influential because of this technique of blending methods and materials. His work is very vintage and recycled looking, with popular figures, such as JFK, as the subject. Rasuchenberg later used his success to support other artists in their ventures by co-founding the Artists Rights Today, which lobbies for artist’s royalties on the resale of their work. He also helped co-found Change Inc, which helps support struggling artists with their medical bills.
James Francis Gill is an American Pop Art painter who was born in 1934 in Tahoka, Texas. His mother, an interior decorator and entrepreneur, introduced him to art and encouraged him to pursue artistic interests at an early age. Prior to formally beginning his art career, Gill served in the U.S. Marines from 1953 to 1956 and then worked as an architect and illustrator to make a living the years that followed. His military experience has influenced the subject matter of some of his earlier paintings, which provided social and political commentary on the Vietnam war. One example is The Machines, an anti-war painting that juxtaposes an image of American news reporting with scenes of Vietnam combat conditions. Gill saw great success during the 1960s and is now heralded as a Pop Art icon. Gill’s pieces have been featured in museums across the globe including MoMA in New York and the 1967 Sao Paulo 9 exhibit, which is said to have established the order of Pop Art icons including Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. Gill also created a cinema poster Charlie Chaplin’s last film and has been commissioned to paint covers for TIME magazine and LIFE magazine. His painting The Machines is pictured below.
Artist: Eric Shaw
Eric Shaw is one of my favorite current Pop/Op artists. He never went to art school and started doodling in a clothing store that he worked for. He began his art career after featuring his work in a friend’s skateboard shop. In 2013, Shaw provided the album art for dream-pop band Wild Nothing’s “Empty Estate” – it channels the psychedelic, colorful, energetic, but strange poppy ’60s and ’80s influences of the album. He works with gouache painting and ink and references Hinduism, Native American creation myths, and the hippie/psychedelic culture. By using vibrant , almost overwhelmingly bright colors and strange geometrical shapes his work looks almost computer-generated and I always admire his strange, unique uses of perspective. A lot of the vaguely domestic settings and vulnerable human figures remind me of an 1980’s alternate reality. He could be classified as both a Pop artist and an Op artist, since he combines the stark colors of Pop Art and human culture with the strange perspectives and optical illusions of Op Art.
Wayne Thiebald was well known in the United States for the Pop movement beginning in the 60’s. He focused on colorful commonplace objects that were common in popular culture at the time. He used highly saturated colors with heavy shadows and definitive outlines. He incorporated geometric figures into many of his works. His subjects were often repetitive colorful foods, such as the four cupcakes and three machines. He was recognized by Bill Clinton, and received a Lifetime Achievement Art Award in 2001.
Polke was a German artists who experimented with many styles. His paintings and works fall into the realm of European Pop art because of his subject matters. Polke combines every day objects with mass media imagery. He uses a dot technique with the rubber end to of a pencil, which amazes me. His works often are social commentaries of consumer society and politics in post-war Germany in the late 20th century. I love looking at his works, along with the works of other pop artists, because it shows a vast transition in the styles and subject matters of the works we studied in previous movements. This movement blurred the lines between “high” art and “low” culture because it aimed to relate to the masses and reflect popular culture. Polke shows the brightness and diversity of culture and media while also inputting his own social commentary.
Richard Hamilton
Born in London in 1922, Hamilton is considered one of the earliest Pop artists and known for his collages. He went to the Royal Academy School and began his career in advertising, moving on to being an industrial designer and eventually went on to art school in 1948. He founded the “Independent Group” at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London which became the basis of English Pop Art. Hamilton was known for his incorporation of photography into his paintings and was very interested in the effects of digital media on the fine arts. He focused much of his artwork on the everyday culture that surrounded him, and he was able to define culture in his own thoughts and words through his paintings and collages. In 1968 Hamilton was commissioned by The Beatles to do the album cover for the White Album.
Possibly his most famous piece is titles “Just What Is It That Makes Today;s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” (1956)
Jasper Johns is a pop artist born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia. He was involved in many previous artistic movements including Dadaism and Surrealism, and affected many others. He introduced something new in his work, that is he started a dialogue with the viewer to actively engage them with viewing his work. He also broke down the barriers between everyday life objects and what is considered fine arts by representing ordinary objects in his paintings. The main objects of his works were actually symbolic items and signs rather than direct representations of what he was painting about. This method of working allowed an open interpretation to be given by the viewers. Johns also worked in many interesting media, for example in the work pictured below entitled “Flag” painted in 19954-55, Johns used encaustic, oil paint, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood.
Roy Lichtenstein is an American pop artist from New York City from the 1960s. He took art classes at Parsons School of Design and Art Students League. During his undergraduate studies in fine arts, he was drafted into WWII.
His works were often commentaries on America’s pop culture and were in the style of comic books and advertising.
This piece is called “Whaam!”, which Lichtenstein painted using DC Comics’ All-American Men of War. This is interesting because in translating the comic panel into a painting, Lichtenstein explores and develops powerful images through impersonal and stylised painting of the commercialized images.
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Artist: Roy Litchenstien
Roy Litchenstien was an American Pop artist born in 1923 that was known predominantly in the 60’s. He is one of the more well-known Pop artists like Warhol. His work is mainly comic strip style paintings like “drowning girl” and “Whaam!” The paintings are comprised of prominent dots and are often parodies of pop art itself. They often have humorous captions or speech bubbles. He also uses primary colors a lot and bright/stark shapes and lines. I usually don’t like comic type work but I like his work for some reason. They have a nostalgic feel for me from reading comics as a kid.
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David Hockney
Hockney was born in England in 1937 and was part of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. He has lived in California for part of his life (1963-2005) which is where he began his pop art career painting sunny landscapes with vivid color and using magazine-like images. Something interesting about Hockney is that he has synesthesia, which is a disease that causes a person to see color when listening to music or sometimes associating color with letters and numbers. He is also openly gay which has influenced some of his pieces such as “We Boys Together Clinging” and “Domestic Scene, Los Angeles.” Hockney has worked with photocollage as well as seen below.
“A Bigger Picture”
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Artist: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol started out as a successful magazine and ad illustrator. In the late 1950s, Warhol began devoting more attention to painting, and in 1961, he debuted the concept of “pop art”—paintings that focused on mass-produced commercial goods. In 1962, he exhibited the now-iconic paintings of Campbell’s soup cans. These small canvas works of everyday consumer products created a major stir in the art world, bringing both Warhol and pop art into the national spotlight for the first time. He ventured into a wide variety of art forms, including performance art, filmmaking, video installations and writing, and controversially blurred the lines between fine art and mainstream aesthetics. Warhol died on February 22, 1987, in New York City.
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Artist: Idelle Weber
Weber was born in Chicago, IL in 1932 but was adopted and grew up in Illinois and California. From a young age, she was very creative and this was probably helped by her mother taking her to visit the Art Institute of Chicago on a weekly basis. Weber herself spent much of her time copying Brenda Starr and Dick Tracy comic books while her favorite works in the collections of Rembrandt and Edward Hopper. She was also exposed to the works of Matisse, Rodin, and Degas, while in high school she observed Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock. She went to an art school with full tuition covered and made her career painting. She came to know many of the well-known pop artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and other Pop artists through her contacts at the Castelli Gallery. Weber herself “taught graduate drawing and painting at NYU in the 1970s and would later teach art at Harvard University, the Art Barge in Amagansett, NY and the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, where she was also artist-in-residence.”
Below are a few works:
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Pop Art – Romero Britto
Romero Britto was born in Recife, Brazil in 1963 and is now an internationally known pop artist. He is commonly known for the vibrant colors and patterns he uses in his work. This style communicates happiness, love, warmth, hope and optimism about the world. With eight brothers and sisters, Britto grew up modestly and used art as an creative outlet. Britto had no formal teaching as he self taught himself to paint using cardboard, newpaper and any other available scraps as his canvas. In 1983, Britto ventured to Paris and eventually ended up coming to the US, specifically Miami, due to the expansion and uprising of Pop Art. From there, he was able to join Andy Warhol and Keith Haring in the campaign for “Absolut Art” by Absolut Vodka in 1988. His work has been exhibited in over 100 countries; in 2013, Britto was invited as the first living artist to exhibit at Museo Soumaya. He recently has been in collaborating with other brand name companies such as Audi, Disney, World Cup and many more! Along with being an amazing, upbeat artist, Britto also is an activist for charitable organizations. He donates time, art and resources to over 250 organizations. Currently, Britto is in the process of developing ways to show how powerful art is in communicating critical issues around the world.
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Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Rasuchenberg was a Texas-born, American painter whose art helped catalyze the pop art movement. He was most famous for his unique way of combining non traditional materials in a series of work called his “combines.” This collage style is thought to be inspired partly from his mother, who was extremely frugal and used scraps to patch together to make their clothing. He was very influential because of this technique of blending methods and materials. His work is very vintage and recycled looking, with popular figures, such as JFK, as the subject. Rasuchenberg later used his success to support other artists in their ventures by co-founding the Artists Rights Today, which lobbies for artist’s royalties on the resale of their work. He also helped co-found Change Inc, which helps support struggling artists with their medical bills.
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Artist: James Francis Gill
James Francis Gill is an American Pop Art painter who was born in 1934 in Tahoka, Texas. His mother, an interior decorator and entrepreneur, introduced him to art and encouraged him to pursue artistic interests at an early age. Prior to formally beginning his art career, Gill served in the U.S. Marines from 1953 to 1956 and then worked as an architect and illustrator to make a living the years that followed. His military experience has influenced the subject matter of some of his earlier paintings, which provided social and political commentary on the Vietnam war. One example is The Machines, an anti-war painting that juxtaposes an image of American news reporting with scenes of Vietnam combat conditions. Gill saw great success during the 1960s and is now heralded as a Pop Art icon. Gill’s pieces have been featured in museums across the globe including MoMA in New York and the 1967 Sao Paulo 9 exhibit, which is said to have established the order of Pop Art icons including Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. Gill also created a cinema poster Charlie Chaplin’s last film and has been commissioned to paint covers for TIME magazine and LIFE magazine. His painting The Machines is pictured below.
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Artist: Eric Shaw
Eric Shaw is one of my favorite current Pop/Op artists. He never went to art school and started doodling in a clothing store that he worked for. He began his art career after featuring his work in a friend’s skateboard shop. In 2013, Shaw provided the album art for dream-pop band Wild Nothing’s “Empty Estate” – it channels the psychedelic, colorful, energetic, but strange poppy ’60s and ’80s influences of the album. He works with gouache painting and ink and references Hinduism, Native American creation myths, and the hippie/psychedelic culture. By using vibrant , almost overwhelmingly bright colors and strange geometrical shapes his work looks almost computer-generated and I always admire his strange, unique uses of perspective. A lot of the vaguely domestic settings and vulnerable human figures remind me of an 1980’s alternate reality. He could be classified as both a Pop artist and an Op artist, since he combines the stark colors of Pop Art and human culture with the strange perspectives and optical illusions of Op Art.
Music Video for Wild Nothing (Eric Shaw’s Art):
http://www.ericjshaw.com/
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Wayne Thiebald was well known in the United States for the Pop movement beginning in the 60’s. He focused on colorful commonplace objects that were common in popular culture at the time. He used highly saturated colors with heavy shadows and definitive outlines. He incorporated geometric figures into many of his works. His subjects were often repetitive colorful foods, such as the four cupcakes and three machines. He was recognized by Bill Clinton, and received a Lifetime Achievement Art Award in 2001.
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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
Polke was a German artists who experimented with many styles. His paintings and works fall into the realm of European Pop art because of his subject matters. Polke combines every day objects with mass media imagery. He uses a dot technique with the rubber end to of a pencil, which amazes me. His works often are social commentaries of consumer society and politics in post-war Germany in the late 20th century. I love looking at his works, along with the works of other pop artists, because it shows a vast transition in the styles and subject matters of the works we studied in previous movements. This movement blurred the lines between “high” art and “low” culture because it aimed to relate to the masses and reflect popular culture. Polke shows the brightness and diversity of culture and media while also inputting his own social commentary.
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Richard Hamilton
Born in London in 1922, Hamilton is considered one of the earliest Pop artists and known for his collages. He went to the Royal Academy School and began his career in advertising, moving on to being an industrial designer and eventually went on to art school in 1948. He founded the “Independent Group” at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London which became the basis of English Pop Art. Hamilton was known for his incorporation of photography into his paintings and was very interested in the effects of digital media on the fine arts. He focused much of his artwork on the everyday culture that surrounded him, and he was able to define culture in his own thoughts and words through his paintings and collages. In 1968 Hamilton was commissioned by The Beatles to do the album cover for the White Album.
Possibly his most famous piece is titles “Just What Is It That Makes Today;s Homes So Different, So Appealing?” (1956)
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Artist: Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns is a pop artist born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia. He was involved in many previous artistic movements including Dadaism and Surrealism, and affected many others. He introduced something new in his work, that is he started a dialogue with the viewer to actively engage them with viewing his work. He also broke down the barriers between everyday life objects and what is considered fine arts by representing ordinary objects in his paintings. The main objects of his works were actually symbolic items and signs rather than direct representations of what he was painting about. This method of working allowed an open interpretation to be given by the viewers. Johns also worked in many interesting media, for example in the work pictured below entitled “Flag” painted in 19954-55, Johns used encaustic, oil paint, and collage on fabric mounted on plywood.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein is an American pop artist from New York City from the 1960s. He took art classes at Parsons School of Design and Art Students League. During his undergraduate studies in fine arts, he was drafted into WWII.
His works were often commentaries on America’s pop culture and were in the style of comic books and advertising.
This piece is called “Whaam!”, which Lichtenstein painted using DC Comics’ All-American Men of War. This is interesting because in translating the comic panel into a painting, Lichtenstein explores and develops powerful images through impersonal and stylised painting of the commercialized images.
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