Thursday, September 4, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Roy Lichtenstien
Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist, his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and the comic book style. At the start of his career, Lichtenstein experimented with many different styles, forms and techniques of art and drew inspiration from a variety of art schools. Several of his first works were inspired by Picasso’s Blue and Rose periods, Braque and the Cubist art movement as well as the Expressionist school of art. This was evident through Lichtenstein’s consistent use of blues and pinks in his paintings and his interest in compiling art from pieces of wood, metal and other objects such as drill bits which he found.
Lichtenstein is most famous for his use of Benday dots to create Comic strips and advertisements for products such as Keds. He used stencils to eliminate visible brushstrokes and to create the appearance that his artwork was made by machine. He used vibrant colours and thick, bold lines that depicted reality as it is seen through mass media and photography. He experimented with many different subjects, ranging from cartoon characters, Women and nature. His unique artistic style of using everyday ideas from commercials and advertising has made him into one of the most famous Pop Artists.
Some more work from Lichtenstien below:
Pointing finger
Girl with ball II
Lichtenstein is most famous for his use of Benday dots to create Comic strips and advertisements for products such as Keds. He used stencils to eliminate visible brushstrokes and to create the appearance that his artwork was made by machine. He used vibrant colours and thick, bold lines that depicted reality as it is seen through mass media and photography. He experimented with many different subjects, ranging from cartoon characters, Women and nature. His unique artistic style of using everyday ideas from commercials and advertising has made him into one of the most famous Pop Artists.
Some more work from Lichtenstien below:
Pointing finger
Girl with ball II
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is a famous Pop Artist. Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon. Warhol is mainly known for his fascination for movie stars which first surfaced in 1962 when he begun working on a portrait of Marilyn Monroe. His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup can. Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art". From this Warhol developed his individual style. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, he worked more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process.
Warhol frequently used silk screening, his later drawings were traced from slide projections. Warhol went from being a painter to being a designer of paintings. 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. Warhol died in his sleep aged 58.
Mao
Mick Jagger
Several
Warhol frequently used silk screening, his later drawings were traced from slide projections. Warhol went from being a painter to being a designer of paintings. 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. Warhol died in his sleep aged 58.
Here are a few more images from Warhol.
Mao
Mick Jagger
Several
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