Warhol work with silk screening

Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil. A roller is moved across the screen stencil, forcing the ink past the threads of the woven mesh in the open areas.

Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.

examples of this are the coca cola bottles and the dollar bills works he did:
Warhol used silk screening in his works to show how thing get popular as they are mass produced.

The main themes Warhol focused on where famous people for example Elvis and Marylin and also focused on brands like coca cola and soup. by reproducing them over and over in this works.

Pop Mix

A mix of some of the most popular peaces of pop art at the time for different artists which include:

Andy Warhol: green coca cola bottles - 1962 and Campbell's soup can - 1962
Jasper John: target with four faces - 1955
Roy Lichtenstein: Whaam! - 1963
Robert Rauschenberg: Retroactive I - 1964
and
David Hockney's: A bigger splash - 1967

Andy Warhols works

green coca-cola bottles - 1962

white car crashes 19 times - 1963

campbell's soup can - 1962

Elvis - 1963

Marilyn - 1962

Andy Warhols works used silk screen print to reproduce images over and over again also his works usally involve popular subjects or people around that time e.g. Elvis, Cola, Soup, ect

Jasper Johns works

target with fore fases - 1955

numbers in colour - 1958-59

Ale cans - 1960

Flag- 1954-55

Jasper Johns work was to make make people not focus on a certain part of a image but the hole thing e.g. when people see a target they usually focus on the center of the bulls eye.

What Pop Art influanced

Today Pop art has influenced the way advertisements are shown, it has influences the fashion industry to produce new styles on t-shirts and other clothing and has influenced of art movements for example the plastic movement.

Influances of Pop Art

"The pop art movement started after WW2. This was because people realised how fragile life was", they started to want 'things' and society became more materialistic. Pop Art uses everyday objects in it's images (vacuum cleaners, cans, toothbrushes, TV, movies, etc.)

Robert Rauschenberg

Known as a Pop Artist, he is an important figure in the whole of art during the 20Th century, by being able to make art exist outside galleries so that art can be more than just paintings, canvases and sculptures.

A critic quotes "Rauschenberg made it possible for art to appear anywhere, from museums to the trashcan.


In 1953 he moved to a loaf studio in New York where not long afterwards he created one of his most known works of art where he rubbed out another artists piece of work, the work was a piece of Abstract Expressionism, the rubbing out signifies the end of the Abstract Expressionist school of art or to show it was another time for a new type of art to capture the public imagination. After the artist Jasper Jones destroyed all of his early works felling they where to influenced by Abstract Expressionism. The to Became friends and in 1955 set up a window design company.

In 1958 Raushenberg had his own show at Leo Castetelli Gallery, which launched his career as a pop artist.

by 1968 he was famous as an artist, so famous he was invited to watch the launch of Apollo 11 by NASA, making a good subject to use in his pop art, so he created "Sky Garden in 1969 to celebrate the Apollo 11 mission.

other works include:

• Bed - 1955
  
• Brace - 1962
  
• Canyon - 1959
  
• Estate - 1963
  
• Harbour - 1964
  
• Monogram - 1955
  
• Retroactive I - 1964
  
• Tracer - 1963
  

My attempt at pop art

Roy Lichtenstiens most known works

Roy Lichtenstien

At the age 33 he did his first piece of pop art a picture of a dollar bill. In 1916 Lichtenstein completed this first piece of pop art from a comic strip called "Look Micky."

Most of Lichtenstein work considering comic strips used the method Benday Dots (dotting oil paint on to a picture so they are big and bold to see unlike in the comic strips. Most of his comic book art lasted in the 1960's but can be see in many places today.

Lichtenstein was still creating art works until he died on the 29th November 1997.

Some of David Hockneys pop art works.

David Hockney

David Hockney is an artists. Born 9 July 1937, in Bradford, Yorkshire, England many people consider him as a pop artist, for example this work called "the bigger splash" where he used a technique called hard edged the show the sharpness of of objects and he also used bright colours to make it more bright and appealing.

At aged eleven Hockney went to Bradford Grammar School. To do what he wanted (art) he would have to be put into bottom class so he did so badly so he could join art class. At age sixteen He persuaded his parents to let him go to Bradford Art School.

In 1966 he when to go live in California and began to use bright colours and scenes he was fascinated by showers and swimming pools thought they where common in the US they weren't in the UK at the time, after the painting "American take showers all the time" the fascination with ordinary life made people think he was a pop artist although he doesn't consider himself to be one.

Hockney worked as a stage designer for operas and ballets. He designed covers for vogue magazine in 1984 and 1985 and also worked with photography and colour photocopy's as well as painting.

Quote from Hockney "the work i did with copying machine. . . were not reproductions, they were very complex prints"

He still works as an artist and travails between his homes in California and England regularly.

Pop Artists

There are many pop artists the most known are:

Robert Raushenberg

Richard Hamilton

Roy Lichtentein

David Hockney

Jasper Johns

and the most known
Andy Warholl

References

Book: "artists in profile" (Pop artists) by Paul Mason 2002

Sites:www.artchive.com
www.lichtenstienfoundation.org
www.warholfoundation.org
www.warhol org

Intro

Pop Art or " Popular art" is a form of art that contains familiar/popular images (e.g. famous brands or people). Pop Artists use many different techniques which most used was silk-screen printing. when pop art first appeared around after WW2 people considered whether or not it was art at all.