What is Pop Art ?An idea created in the 60s by anti-establishment artists (who wanted to create art for the masses).

What is Pop Art ?An idea created in the 60s by anti-establishment artists (who wanted to create art for the masses).Based on the idea that art has always, and should continue to reflect what is important to the popular culture (every-day common people).Should show objects that are part of the popular culture.Should use methods that are part of the popular culture.Should reflect the attitude of popular culture.

What was popular in America?Mass production and Industrializationassembly lines, plastics (comic books)Throw away, disposable productsplastic, cardboard (Coke bottles and soup cans)Celebrities, movie stars, athletesElvis, Marilyn Monroe, Kennedy

Andy WarholMajor innovator of the idea of Pop Art.Used Screen-Printing to create imagesIt was an industrial, common means of mass production.It was cheap, fast and disposable (like Pop Culture).

Perhaps Andy Warhols best know image

The Campbells Soup can.

He created many many of these images, in singles and series.

He did however, also create sculpture.

Other artists during the same time period also created Pop style work, including much sculpture.

ROB RAUSHENBURGHelped popularize the idea of the readymade.The found object as art because of presentation.The way its was shown or presented to the public was more important than what it was.

The ready made...

Riding Bikes Berlin

MERET OPPENHEIMA member of the Surrealist movement of the 1920s along with Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and other writers, film makers, musicians and visual artists.

MARCEL DUCHAMPA French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp signed this urinal and placed it on the wall of a gallery, saying it was art because he said it was, and presented it as art.

MARCEL DUCHAMPHe pushed the idea of making people look at familiar objects in new ways.

Examining an object based on its form, not its function.

Your task...Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular culture)...

And turn this object into a piece of art.Make people look at it differently by presentation and/or modification.

Emphasis its form over its function. It doesnt matter what it does as much as what it looks like.

Your task...Take an everyday object (a symbol of popular culture)...

And turn this object into a piece of art.Make people look at it differently by presentation and/or modification.

Changing its physical appearance to alter the way people look at it.

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Watch the two videos by Pes to see some examples of everyday objects seen in new ways and given new life.