Art 101 Pt 2

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Pop Art Timeline and Location

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-Started in England
-Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.
-1st exhibition England 1956
-Lawrence Alloway 1958 coins Pop art term
-Post WWII

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Pop Art Concept

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-challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art.
-Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects, pop art is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism
-a response by artists using impersonal, mundane reality, irony and parody to defuse the personal symbolism and "painterly looseness" of Abstract Expressionism

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-studied commerical culture
-advertisement and it role in modern life

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Pop Art vs Dada

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While pop art and Dadaism explored some of the same subjects, pop art replaced the destructive, satirical, and anarchic impulses of the Dada movement with detached affirmation of the artifacts of mass culture

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Roy Lichtenstein

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basic premise of pop art better than any other through parody.[7] Selecting the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produces a hard-edged, precise composition that documents while it parodies in a soft manner.

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Andy Warhol

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-commentary on consumer and celebrity culture
-wanted to be a machine
-Iron out peronality and individuality
-hand never touches the page
-All american Symbolism
-Consumer products/celebrities
-corporate creations
-dispoable commodities
-intended for mass consumption
-He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame."
-producing prints using the silkscreen method

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Richard Hamilton

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"Todays Homes Are so Appealing"

--keeping up with consumer market
-pin ups idyllic culture
-referneces to modern life
-over production

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Fin de siècle

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-"end of the century"
-affected by the cultural awareness characteristic of France at the end of the 19th century
-Over all styles are characterized by decadence and aesthetically pleasing imagery
-in terms of art, fin de siècle is most often associated with Art Nouveau. For those not familiar with this term, I guess it could best be described as "botanical." That is, painting, sculpture, architecture, consumer products, interior design, poster, and commercial art with a strong organic motif--everything from stair banisters to clocks and cloisters.

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Art Noveau

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an international movement[2] and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890–1905
also known as Jugendstil (youthful style) Germany

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Artist in Fin de Seicle

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-Alphonse Mucha (low art, commerical, multiple prints, produced in quantity) (Slave epic 18yrs master work Cezch/ Prague)

-Aubery Beardsley ) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, executed in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic.

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Vienna Secession

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1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects. The first president of the Secession was Gustav Klimt, and Rudolf von Alt was made honorary president.

-The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Above its entrance was carved the phrase "to every age its art and to art its freedom". Secession artists were concerned, above all else, with exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition. They hoped to create a new style that owed nothing to historical influence.

-Ver Sacrum - publication sacrum = sacred truth

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Gustave Klimt

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-Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement.

-limt's primary subject was the female body,[1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism

-Not completed until the turn of the century, his three paintings, Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence were criticized for their radical themes and material, which was called "pornographic".[7] Klimt had transformed traditional allegory and symbolism into a new language which was more overtly sexual, and hence more disturbing.

-Klimt's work is often distinguished by elegant gold or coloured decoration, spirals and swirls, and phallic shapes used to conceal the more erotic positions of the drawings upon which many of his paintings are based