1. The Pop Art Movement
Alyssa Rollins, Leila Haddad, and Mona Patel

2. Popular (designed for a mass
audience). Transient (short-term
solution). Expendable (easily-
forgotten). Low cost. Mass
produced. Young (aimed at youth).
Witty. Sexy. Gimmicky. Glamorous.
Big business. This is just the
beginning…
Richard Hamilton in a Letter to Alison
and Peter Smithson, 16 January 1957

3. Origin
• Timeline: mid 1950’s to early 1970’s (time of economic prosperity)
• Concept first originated in Britain in early 1950’s by the Independent
Group
• The word pop has several origins
• Link to Marcel Duchamp

4. Pop Art
• Aimed to blur the line between traditional art and popular culture
(between “high” and “low” cultured art).
• Themes of daily object, mass media, and repetition, everyday life
• Coincided with Abstract Expressionism

5. Richard
Hamilton, Just
What Is It That
Makes Today’s
Homes So
Different, So
Appealing? 1956

6. Andy Warhol
• 1928-1987
• Fashion
illustrator, painter, sculptor, filmmaker, producer of
the Velvet Underground, magazine
publisher, philosopher, historian, diarist, model, phot
ographer, and archivist.
• Started off as commercial artist
• One of the founding fathers of the pop art
movement
• Themes: shoes, Campbell soup cans, Marilyn
Monroe, Brillo pads, disasters
• The Factory
• Shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas

7. Campbell Soup Cans, 1962

8. Gold Marilyn
Monroe (1962)

9. Marilyn Ditych, 1962

11. Orange Disaster 1963

12. Techniques Andy Warhol Used
• Silk-screening
• Repetition

22. Roy Lichtenstein
• Born in New York City on October 27, 1923
• Grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side
• Inspired by advertisements and comic strips
• Bright, graphic images parodied popular culture
• Died in New York City on September 29, 1997

23. Girl with Ball,
1961
Roy Lichtenstein

24. “This was the first time
I decided to make a
painting really look like
commercial art. The approach
turned out to be so interesting that
eventually it became impossible to do
any other kind of painting.”
-Roy Lichtenstein

25. Look Mickey, 1961
Roy Lichtenstein

26. Donald Duck: Lost and
Found, 1960
Look
Mickey, 1961

27. Drowning
Girl, 1963
Roy
Lichtenstein

28. Whaam!, 1963

29. Bedroom at Arles, 1992

30. Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles, 1888

31. Summary
• Dealt with painting, printmaking, and sculpture
• Originated in the mid-1950s
• Major artists in the United States include:
• Andy Warhol
• Roy Lichtenstein
• Jasper Johns
• Major artist in Britain:
• Richard Hamilton
• Difference between U.S. and Britain’s pop art is the U.S. seemed more
united