Pop Art intro

• Pop Art


  A brash, young, and fun art movement that includes different styles of painting and sculpture, focusing on mass-media, mass-production, and popular culture
• Consumerism


  The concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy
• Mass Production


  The production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, especially by machinery
• Mass Media


  Any means of communication, such as television or newspapers, that reach very large numbers of people
• Cambell’s Soup Cans was created in 1962

  
• In the years after World War II, the USA entered into a period of economic growth like never before
• TV replaced radio
• By the early 1960s, a “Revolution” began as people started to challenge the thinking of those in power
• The world of the 1960s

  • Vietnam war Protests
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • The women’s liberation movement
  • Woodstock
  • 1960’s Movie stars
  • 1960’s Rock stars
• Artists and works


  • Roy Lichtenstein – Drowning girl
  • Andy Warhol – Gold Marilyn
  • Robert Rauschenberg - Retroactive
  • Marjory Strider – Girl With Radish
  • Andy Warhol – Triple Elvis
• Pop Art remains one of the most popular and famous art movements, continuing to influence popular culture to this day