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Oh, Pop..!
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Oh, Pop..!
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Oh, Pop..!
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Oh, Pop..!
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Oh, Pop..!
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Oh, Pop..!
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Emerging in the mid 1950s in Britain and late 1950s in America, pop art reached its peak in the 1960s. It began as a revolt against the dominant approaches to art and culture and traditional views on what art should be. Young artists felt that what they were taught at art school and what they saw in museums did not have anything to do with their lives or the things they saw around them every day. Instead they turned to sources such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, pop music and comic books for their imagery.
In 1957 pop artist Richard Hamilton listed the ‘characteristics of pop art’ in a letter to his friends the architects Peter and Alison Smithson:
Pop Art is: 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.
Modernist critics were horrified by the pop artists’ use of such ‘low’ subject matter and by their apparently uncritical treatment of it. In fact pop both took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new ways of presenting it in art and can be seen as one of the first manifestations of postmodernism.
In 1957 pop artist Richard Hamilton listed the ‘characteristics of pop art’ in a letter to his friends the architects Peter and Alison Smithson:
Pop Art is: 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.
Modernist critics were horrified by the pop artists’ use of such ‘low’ subject matter and by their apparently uncritical treatment of it. In fact pop both took art into new areas of subject matter and developed new ways of presenting it in art and can be seen as one of the first manifestations of postmodernism.
Oh, Pop..!
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Exploring and expressing Pop Art through several projects intended to expand on the idea of contemporary pop art and how to approach it expressively with an eye on the present. |
Contemporary Pop Art
What are 3 characteristics of Pop Art?
- Recognizable imagery: Pop art utilized images and icons from popular media and products. ...
- Bright colors: Pop art is characterized by vibrant, bright colors. ...
- Irony and satire: Humor was one of the main components of Pop art.
What are the key ideas of pop art?
By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop Art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop Art.
By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop Art movement aimed to blur the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop Art.
What makes Pop Art different from other art?
Part of what makes Pop art unique is that it rejects the notion of uniqueness. Instead of trying to be unique, pop artists embraced mass-production and elements from popular culture. Artworks in the Pop art style often employ commercial techniques such as silk screening to produce multiple replicas of artwork.
Part of what makes Pop art unique is that it rejects the notion of uniqueness. Instead of trying to be unique, pop artists embraced mass-production and elements from popular culture. Artworks in the Pop art style often employ commercial techniques such as silk screening to produce multiple replicas of artwork.
Influential "Pop" artists to explore
Pop Projects
pop art
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- art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
Collaborative Grid Murals - Warhol Wall
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Each student will be challenged to reproduce a small segment of a larger Pop Art grid painting with a focus on color matching and composition. We will learn how to work with acrylic paint and the methods of the classroom. The subject is intended to project the vibe and direction of the semester.
Pop Portraits
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We will created hand painted portraits in the style of Pop artist, Andy Warhol. The end product will be assembled as a digital image. |
Political Pop - Constitutional Rights
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In collaboration with Elena's Civics course, we will produce comic style pop art portraits that depict an issue that someone faced in regard to the US constitution. |
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We have a commission to create artwork for a party at the MCASD. The builders, Level10 are throwing a party for all those involved in the construction of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's recent remodel at the La Jolla location. We will produce props for a Pop Art themed photo booth. The objects will be images associated with the original pop art movement of the 1960's, with a focus on Andy Warhol. These props will return to us after the party on October 6th. We will set up a Pop Art photo booth at HTHI for all to enjoy. |
Pop Cultural Symbol
Potential projects for the class of 2023:
The following projects are a pool of potential subjects we will explore during the semester. We will get to as many as time allows. Some may be altered, eliminated or expanded upon. It is most important that we grasp artistic concepts and develop projects with thoughtfulness and quality craftsmanship. Individual, Digital Portfolios, will host all of your projects and should exhibit well photographed and organized images supported by reflective written descriptions. Once the project is properly posted to the site, work will be assessed and graded.
The following projects are a pool of potential subjects we will explore during the semester. We will get to as many as time allows. Some may be altered, eliminated or expanded upon. It is most important that we grasp artistic concepts and develop projects with thoughtfulness and quality craftsmanship. Individual, Digital Portfolios, will host all of your projects and should exhibit well photographed and organized images supported by reflective written descriptions. Once the project is properly posted to the site, work will be assessed and graded.
Modern Art Timeline
100 Years in the
Western Civilization
1860's to 1960's
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Impressionism lends itself to pencil drawing because the images rely on degree's of value, whereas Post Impressionism lends itself to pen/ink drawing because the images rely on shape and line.
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We will create a number of artworks that explore features of Cubism, explore the African influence and create 3 or more images of one subject in a variety of styles. Cut them up and assemble them to create one unified image. |
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Though, this movement was sparked by the horrors of WWI, its nonsensical aesthetic hid the anti war sentiment in folly, showing disdain for the precious art and intellectual society. |
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Create an otherworldly image that merges objects and subjects in a unified, dream-reality. Choose your method and medium to produce a surrealist image, that "convincingly" blends one object or scene with another. This blend should look like all images exists within the same spacial location. |
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Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. (Wikipedia)
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The origins of pop art was a response by artists to abstract expressionism; it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art. They used impersonal, mundane reality, irony, and parody to "defuse" the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of abstract expressionism. (wiki)
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Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or concepts. |
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Conceptual Art is more about developing an idea rather than a craft. The artist conceives of a project and artisans produce the physical art. Joseph Kosuth One and Three Chairs 1965 |
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Artistic works that are intended to enhance or become part of the environment or make a statement on environmental issues. |
Assemblage Art
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Guerrilla art differs from other art forms in the fact that it has no external boundary between the image and the environment. |
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Hand drawn lines can be very personal. Each of us has our own method, style and touch when drawing. Line drawing can be very expressive. We will recreate an image, object or subject as a line drawing on wood panel in acrylic paint. |
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Choose an animated character and create a self portrait in the style of that character. |
Collage
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Collage describes both the technique and the resulting work of art in which pieces of paper, photographs, fabric and other ephemera are arranged and stuck down onto a supporting surface.
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In art, a symbol is usually a solid, recognizable thing—an animal, a plant, an object, etc. —that stands for something that would be hard to show in a picture or a sculpture. A force of nature, for example, or an idea. A symbol can also stand for someone's whole story.
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To prepare for a larger class project we will explore the artistic process by engaging in a mini-project of a similar theme. Going through specific art methods and procedures, should get us moving in the right direction as we kick off the semester. This mini-project will ask that we fantasize and have fun with a random object, the larger project will challenge us to reflect and take a look at ourselves through an intentional object, idol or savior.
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Skull Animation
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Using Photopea, create an animation from a drawing of a skull in the spirit of Halloween |
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Produce an artsy, low-fi, junk puppet theatre video from a script you have written. Pre-production work consists of character development, storyboarding, stage craft and set design. The concept is to produce an art film that references your story and is constructed from common, household objects.
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Frame Animation
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Using Photoshop and our art skills, we will create basic GIF animations.
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A Haiku is a Japanese 3 line poem using 5-7-5 syllables respectively. This video project will visually illustrate our Haiku. The next step is to narrate the poem on the video editor, then import the scenes and edit to produce a video that creatively illustrates your Haiku.
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Develop Your Character
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Produce an image of the persona you create, based on the fictional artist you fabricate. People alter their bodies, hair, and clothing to align with or rebel against social conventions and to express messages to others around them.
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Gather a few items from the; house, yard, or street, etc, and arrange them as a color spectrum. Just a few items will do and it could be a circle, line, grid, or whatever arrangement you choose. (If you are color challenged, try going from light to dark, using color value) |
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The journal will be filled with art exercises and ideas of the work we explore in both Art and Humanities. We will make a simple book of hand produced artwork for the front and back covers, and all the pages in between with the purpose of creating a back story for our "fictional artist assignment". |
Chill Loop Animation
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This simple digital animation will illustrate a continuous event in loop form. Using Photoshop video animation we will create an image flow with accompanying audio tracks to enhance the effect.
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Perspective and proportion are powerful elements to consider when making art. We will explore the differences and similarities between little and big (micro and macro), and the various ways to approach this topic when creating visual art and photography. |
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Atmospheric perspective – also called aerial perspective – is the effect you get when far away objects take on the colors of atmospheric haze.
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Anime Me
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Create a Japanese Anime style self portrait using exaggerated facial features that define this form of comic animation.
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Creating a Monster
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Create a monster that exhibits visible traits of evil. What physical features make a being appear to be bad in nature? Collect reference images and compose an evil being to be drawn and refined into a digital image.
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Recreate the pictorial elements of an existing artwork using related objects. Choose a famous work of art to "re-stage" from objects you gather at home. The objective is to transform the original into a surreal version by using alternative elements and keeping in step with the overall structure and composition of the original artwork. It should inevitably have Dada or surreal overtones. |
Derivative Characters
A derivative character is a creation inspired or "derived" from an existing illustration, but is altered enough to allow it to stand on its own and become a new original.
Essential Question:
Can you create a character that transcends the original and can stand on its own as a new original?
Essential Question:
Can you create a character that transcends the original and can stand on its own as a new original?
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"Create and Animate"
First create a painting, then digitally animate this work of art, then compose original music. Combine all together to produce a Youtube music video in the vein of the "Chill Lounge", music to dream to.... |
Re-Contextualize
Similar to a "meme", we will take an existing image and recreate an alternative story that tells an opposing perspective. We will choose a magazine image and re-contextualize the message in the spirit of the french, "Situationalists".
Personalized Logo: Artistic Identity
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We will experiment with a variety of mediums, materials and approaches in order to create a unique logo to brand your artistic identity. It is time to move beyond existing templates and clipart, and into imaginative, personalized design.
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Fine Art Reconfigured
A Virtual Mural: Making a Statement
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Find an empty wall in your neighborhood and visualize a mural that could be virtually photoshopped onto that wall. The visual of the mural should somehow relate to the culture of the neighborhood. It should reflect or react to existing ideas, activities and issues relevant to the community. What is the purpose of the wall..? How can a wall affect change..? |
Post-It Portrait: Who am I..?
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Sometimes we want people to think of us differently than what we really are. Many of us live our lives not really projecting what is inside of us. What are we hiding and why? Let's make a statement.... |
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In politics it is the objective of a campaign to find what they like in an issue and spin it to suit their own agenda. One image could be interpreted a thousand ways. With a bias and the proper influence, an instance, image or phrase could be sold under a number of veils. A choice to focus on a specific issue and disregard the rest is often the MO behind a political campaign.
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In this case, we are going to appropriate or "steal" from advertisers without their permission and use in connection with a topic/issue that you have chosen.
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Use a well conceived and stylistically deliberate, portrait photograph. Experiment with surrealist aesthetics and sensibilities to produce a mind-freaking portrait image that connects the subject to their purpose.
You Deserve an Award..!
In the spirit of the Surrealists and Dadaists, an art movement of the 1910's-20's, we will create a "Ready-made" award to our cultural values. The award will consist of a "found object" that already exists. We will construct a base, a plaque and paint the whole thing gold, or whatever color you choose to unify the assemblage
Imperfect Art
In the spirit of the famed 1980's New York artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and poet, activist, Maya Angelou, we will create illustrated poems that examine cultural norms and stereotypes. We will imitate the expressive, primal, almost childlike art of Basquiat.
Fine Art Mash-up
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This painting project requires that we search for and discover two favorite artists, mash the images together, and reproduce in acrylic paint. The twist will be to introduce a new contemporary artist with an older artist in and interesting and relevant manner. You might choose artists that have elements that engage one another conceptually or stylistically. |
Selfie-portrait
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We will create two self portraits; one will be shaded with pencil, the other will be simplified using only line drawing. |