https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5 by: Spencer Witt en-us 2020-06-08 00:59:14 UTC 2026-04-29 21:04:54 UTC hello@padlet.com spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615891518 Definition: "Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the 1950's and flourished in the 1960's in America and Britain, drawing inspiration from sources in popular and commercial culture. Different cultures and countries contributed to the movement during the 1960's and 70's" (www.tate.org.uk)
Commonplace objects were often the subject matter, along with different portrayals of all aspects of popular culture. At first it was not taken seriously, as it rejected High Art, but now it has become one of the most recognized art movements.
www.britannica.com]]> 2020-06-08 01:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615891518 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615904731 After WWII, the economy grew tremendously, and people had more time and money than before. The television started a trend of importance for graphic images and logos. This led to the Pop artists' style that had "clearly rendered images of popular subject matter"
Artists started to attempt to make their paintings to imitate the look of industrial printing techniques. An example of this is painting the Benday dots, which were used normally to print comics. Later, instead of painting, artists would use industrial techniques.
www.khanacademy.org]]> 2020-06-08 01:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615904731 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615911900 Claes Oldenburg is best known for his soft sculptures. He chose normal consumer products of daily life to recreate, but especially those with close human connection.  This was part of The Store, a fabricated environment that Oldenburg created. This is often considered a moment of emergence of Pop art.
www.guggenheim.org]]> 2020-06-08 01:29:27 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615911900 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615922129 This monument was done by Claes Oldenburg and placed in front of Yale University and remained there for a year. This was right during the time of student protests against the war in Vietnam. It combined the masculine narrative of war with the tank base, and the feminine narrative of consumerism with the lipstick, critiquing them both. The original was eventually moved and a permanent version was made. Oldenburg would continue to make monuments as these, merging the boundaries between architecture and sculpture.
www.khanacademy.org]]> 2020-06-08 01:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615922129 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615923866 This piece was wonde by Andy Warhol shortly after the death of Marilyn Monroe. It represents the theme of death and celebrity. As the color turns to black and white, and then slowly fades, it shows the star's bright life and then her eventual death.
www.tate.org.uk]]> 2020-06-08 01:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615923866 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615925805 Andy Warhol liked to display images from consumerism and mass media. When this piece was first displayed, the canvases were setup to be like shelves, just like you were shopping for the soup cans. This was one of his last oil paintings, as he would soon turn to photo-silkscreen to produce many of his well-known images.
www.moma.org]]> 2020-06-08 01:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/615925805 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/619311862 Claes Oldenburg was prominent artists in the Pop art movement. Oldenburg is best known for his soft-sculpures, recreating products of consumer life as well as large installations, many which were made with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen.
He created The Store to showcase his painted plaster copies of items that you would find in a normal store. Later on he would create more large scale sculptures.
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]]> 2020-06-09 17:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/619311862 spencermwitt https://padlet.com/spencermwitt/nzpeqy5d13shqls5/wish/619334359 Warhol enjoyed "exploring the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture." (tate.org.ouk)
He used many different mediums and has created some of the most recognizable iconic portraits.
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