A Lesson in the American

Artistic Movement;

By Aja Alim-Young
n. A form of art that depicts
objects or scenes from
everyday life and employs
techniques of commercial art
and popular illustration.
pop-art (pŏp'ärt')
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English
Language, Fourth Edition
 A visual art movement that emerged in the 1950s
and was popular in the 1960s in the United States.

Characterized by themes and techniques drawn

from popular mass culture, such as television,
movies, advertising and comic books.

Food was a common theme, but so were

household objects.

Pop artists liked to satirize or ridicule objects,

sometimes enlarging those objects to gigantic
proportions . These objects reflected mass culture
and consumerism.

The movement was marked by clear lines, sharp

paintwork and clear representations of symbols,
objects and people commonly found in popular
culture.
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein Claes Oldenburg

Robert Rauschenberg Tom Wesselmann

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol
“Campbell’s Soup” “Sixteen Jackies”
1968 1964
Roy Lichtenstein
“Whaam!”
1963

Roy Lichtenstein
“Hopeless”
1963
Roy Lichtenstein
“Brush Stroke”
1996, enlarged and
fabricated 2002-03
 Tom Wesselmann
“Still Life #24”
1962

Tom Wesselmann
"Smoker number 1
(Mouth number 12)"
1967
Robert Raushchenberg
“Signs”
1970
 Claes Oldenburg
“Spoonbridge and Cherry”
1985-1988

Claes Oldenburg
“Dropped Cone”
2001
 Subjects are often easily recognizable and reflect
popular items, people or ideas from American Culture:
Food
Brand Names and products
Iconic Figures
Common, everyday household items
Current events

Stylistically pop art can be defined as:

Simple, crisp lines
Oversized images or objects
Often reflects and copies the styles seen in the media
Collages of popular images
Bright Colors
Some work re-creates the same subject in
several pieces or within the same piece
 Objective: Create a portrait or
still life using techniques and
themes inspired from pop art:
Clean, sharp lines
Bright Colors
Close-up and oversized subjects
Products or iconic figures
Thought Bubbles
Collages: different images of same
subject or same image repeated
Easily recognizable subjects
Materials:
Tracing Paper
Acrylic Paint
Canvas Paper
Ink pen
8” x 10” photo from magazine or own
photo
 Works Cited:

Slide 2 - Definition of Pop Art: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pop Art

Slide 3- Information About Pop Art History:
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/
Slide 4- Photo of Andy Warhol:
http://www.poolparty.com/quotes/images/2007/09/24/andy_warhol.jpg
Photo of Roy Lichtenstein:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/Roy%20Lichtenstein%20portrait/tomasu
tpen/album4/lichtenstein.jpg
Photo of Claes Oldenburg:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/com.artwelove.asset/5f19ce303a0be2aa6ab3395d7dabbf
f4-l.jpg
Photo of Tom Wesselmann:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZujt_O1vU/SdybvAXCCPI/AAAAAAAAAGM/1Q2ih3zGuk
g/s400/Tom_Wesselmann.jpg
Slide 5- Andy Warhol Campbell Soup Painting:
http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~mplog/Art/Warhol_campbells%20soup.jpg
Andy Warhol Jackie Painting:
http://annespeelman.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/andywarhol-jackie-kennedy-
1964.jpg
 Works Cited
Slide 6- Roy Lichtenstein Girl Painting:
http://baroqueinhackney.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/roy_lichtenstein_gallery
_4.jpg
Roy Lichtenstein Whaam Painting:
http://simplyartonline.net/M-0137v3wham.jpg
Slide 7- Photos of Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture: photo by Aja Alim-Young 2009, In front of
Modern Art Museum in Washington D.C.
Slide 8- Tom Wesselmann Mouth Piece:
http://www.findagrave.com/photos/2004/356/10164756_110373764570.jpg
Tom Wesselmann Still life:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/tom%20wesselmann/Death2Perky/24- l.jpg
Slide 9- Robert Raushchenberg Painting:
http://www.museumofthegulfcoast.org/images/rausch.jpg
Slide 10- Spoon and cherry Sculpture:
http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/spoonbridge.htm
Ice Cream Cone Sculpture:
http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/droppedcone.htm
Slide 11- Summary of key ideas by Aja Alim-Young, referred by
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/popart/
Slide12- Line Art Examples:
http://www.staceytownsend.com/turnmeintopopart/images/home_quadimage.png
http://www.melissaclifton.com/image158.html
2D Pop Art Assignment: Created by Aja Alim-Young