2. B E G I N N I N G S
• Pop Art was developed in the 1950s first with the
Independent Group in London that included Richard
Hamilton
• New York, Los Angeles, France (Nouveau Realists),
Germany (Capital Realists)
• Originated out of Post Impressionism, Fauvism,
Dadaism, Abstract Expressionism, Social Realism
3. I was a Rich Man's
Plaything (1947)
Eduardo Paolozzi
4. Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a
Famous Monster of Filmland
(1964)
Richard Hamilton
The Green Stripe (1905)
Matisse
5. Marily Monroe (1962)
Andy Warhol
Squares with Concentric Rings
(1913)
Wassily Kandinsky
7. C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S
• Emotionally cold towards its subject
• Inspired by pop culture, media, advertisements,
popular images, cartoons
• New focus on mass consumerist, materialist art
• Emphasis on color, energy, and youth
• New mediums due to new technology (mass
production, silk screen, printing, Technicolor, etc.)
11. RI C HAR D HAMI LTO N
(1922 – 2011)
• Exhibited art at
• Began painting the Institute of
at St. Martin’s Contemporary
School of Art Art
• Entered Royal • Taught at the
Academy but Central School of
dropped out Art and Design
• Spent two • Joined the
years at Slade Independent
School of Art Group in London
12. IDEAS&TEC HNIQUES
• He made paintings,
drawings, collages, prints, • He expressed cold distaste
and miscellaneous crafts for the fashionable culture
• He was influence by Post-
War Britain • He reflected boredom and
passiveness in his art
• His art focused on
superficial emptiness of
consumerist culture
13. Just What Is It
That Makes
Today’s
Homes So
Different, So
Appealing?
(1956)
Richard
Hamilton
14. Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?
15. Portrait of
Hugh
Gaitskell as a
Famous
Monster of
Filmland
(1964)
Richard
Hamilton
22. Biography
Andrew Warhola was born in Pittsburgh
Began to work as a In 1952 Warhol’s first solo
commercial artist, usually exhibition, “Fifteen Drawings
under the name Andy Based on the Writings of
Warhol. Throughout the Truman Capote,” was held at
1950s and early 1960s, he the Hugo Gallery, New York.
illustrated a great variety of
published projects, and
designed department store
windows.
23. Books
A Is an Alphabet Wild Raspberries, a
cookbook of absurd
Love Is a Pink Cake, recipes
Self-published the A Gold Book, with
illustrated book 25 Cats many drawings based
Named Sam and One Blue on Wallowitch’s photos
Pussy,
24. Films
Poor Little Rich Girl Bike Boy
Vinyl I
Kitchen A Man
Lupe The Nude Restaurant
Outer and Inner Space Blue Movie
My Hustler Nico
The Velvet Underground The Chelsea Girls
56. C O N C L U S I O N
"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."
-RICHARD HAMILTON