https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l en-us 2021-09-24 09:26:37 UTC 2026-02-26 18:08:02 UTC hello@padlet.com bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768232542 Eduardo Paolozzi produces what is often considered to be one of true pop art, I was a Rich Man's Plaything. which got the word "pop" to spread. This art piece was made from card and magazines given to the artist by American ex-servicemen. The piece reflects his fascination with popular culture, technology and glamour of American consumerism.

]]> 2021-09-26 07:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768232542 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768232955 The Independent Group forms, where the first pop artists in London's art scene meet and collaborate. They are known to have founded pop art and had a strong influence over the movement by challenging the dominant modernist and elitist culture to make it more inclusive of popular culture such as modern cultural artefacts, American mass media, science fiction, comic books, advertisement. The group met at the institution of contemporary art and was a collection of artist of various media such as sculptors, painters, architects and writers. ]]> 2021-09-26 07:56:36 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768232955 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234173 Frank Cordell may have coined the term “pop art." Cordell was a British composer and conductor who was active with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He had a wide knowledge of commercial entertainment and media and collaborated with John McHale on the This Is Tomorow exhibit in 1956 and delivered several lectures at the ICA, Independent Group, including "Gold Pan Alley", on the subject of commercial music, jazz and popular culture.
Cordell also installed the interactive microphone and electronic amplifier that provided cybernetic feedback of the ambient audience sounds at the TIT, and was the first example of an artistic "happening" in Britain. 

]]> 2021-09-26 07:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234173 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234539 The term “pop art” and the general concept that it entails is well-established among the members of the Independent Group. ]]> 2021-09-26 07:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234539 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234915 The Independent Group is now dissolved.]]> 2021-09-26 07:58:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768234915 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768235748 Lawrence Alloway writes an essay about pop art, called "The Arts and the Mass Media" which got the term pop normalized. Alloway was an art critic.]]> 2021-09-26 07:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768235748 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236072 Billy Apple and others first venture to the United States and meet Andy Warhol.  Billy apple was a New Zealand painter and sculptor associated with the New York and British schools of pop art in the 1960s and the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s.]]> 2021-09-26 08:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236072 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236363 The term “pop art” is used for the first time in the U.S. by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. ]]> 2021-09-26 08:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236363 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236589 Roy Lichtenstein produces one of his most famous paintings, Drowning Girl, which is an almost exact copy of a panel from the DC comic Secret Hearts. Lichtenstein was very influenced by comic arts imagery and recreated them with acrylic paints on Canvas and manually simulated the Benday dots used in the mechanical reproduction of images.]]> 2021-09-26 08:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236589 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236844 The American Supermarket exhibition takes place.  "The exhibition featured everything from chrome cabbages, wax tomatoes, and plaster leaves of pumpernickel bread by Robert Watts; cakes, cookies, and candies by Claes Oldenburg; a 3-D turkey by Tom Wesselmann; and an entire case of handpainted wax "meats." Roy Lichtenstein's image of a turkey and Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup can image were silkscreened on shopping bags which sold for $2 - a true "American Pop Art Store." The exhibit was one of the first mass events that  confronted the public with 
both pop art and the perennial question of what art is."
https://worldhistoryproject.org/1964/10/6/pop-art-exhibition-the-american-supermarket]]> 2021-09-26 08:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768236844 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768237353 Andy Warhol is shot by radical feminist Valerie Solanas and nearly dies from his wounds. He was shot from the false belief that he had stole Solanas Scum manifesto. Warhol had to wear a surgical corset for the rest of his life.]]> 2021-09-26 08:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768237353 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768237662 Andy Warhol publishes his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. The book presents a set of stories about Warhol's life in the Us in the prime of American Pop-culture and the pop art movement whilst sharing details about his own reflection and model of thinking on topics such as love, work, money, success and human relationships. Warhol develops his philosophy of everyday life and the philosophy of mass-culture.]]> 2021-09-26 08:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1768237662 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1819362612 Patrick Caulfield exhibited at the New Generation show at London's Whitechapel Gallery, which resulted in him being associated with the pop art movement.
. This was a label Caulfield was opposed to throughout his career, seeing himself rather as "a 'formal' artist  he saw himself as a formalist painter working in the tradition of Braque, Gris and Matisse.]]> 2021-10-15 10:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1819362612 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1914079615 Keith Haring uses his artistic platform to design logos and television adverts for an anti-litter campaign. "NYC mayor Koch publicly thanks Haring at the launch and Haring presents Koch his book "Art in Transit," which features photos of Haring’s subway drawings. Koch is a leading advocate against graffiti in the city. "https://dubdotdash.blogspot.com/2013/02/haring-meets-koch.html

]]> 2021-11-26 10:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1914079615 bebibunz https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1914208527 Pop artist and nun Cortia Kent, most known for her political screen-printing and typography becomes The Los Angeles Times one of nine Women of the Year.]]> 2021-11-26 11:43:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bebibunz/dm2d5zqxhl9swz4l/wish/1914208527