Pop Art

Pop Art 

What is Pop Art?

This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. It was most prominent in American art but soon spread to Britain. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans, washing powder, comic strips and soda pop bottles, the movement turned thecommonplace into icons.
Pop Art is a direct descendant of Dadaism in
the way it mocks the established art world by
appropriating images from the street, the
supermarket, the mass media, and presents it as art in itself.

This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. It was most prominent in American art but soon spread to Britain. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans, washing powder, comic strips and soda pop bottles, the movement turned thecommonplace into icons.
Pop Art is a direct descendant of Dadaism in
the way it mocks the established art world by
appropriating images from the street, the
supermarket, the mass media, and presents it as art in itself.

Who are the PopArt Artists:

Artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg took familiar objects such as flags and beer bottles as subjects for their paintings, while British artist Richard Hamilton used magazine imagery. The latter’s definition of Pop Art – “popular, transient, expendable, low-cost, mass-produced, young, witty, sexy, gimmicky, glamorous, and Big Business” – stressed its everyday, commonplace values.

It was Andy Warhol, however, who really brought Pop Art to the public eye. His screen prints of Coke bottles, Campbell’s soup tins and film stars are part of the iconography of the 20th century. Pop Art owed much to dada in the way it mocked the established art world. By embracing commercial techniques, and creating slick, machine-produced art, the Pop artists were setting themselves apart from the painterly, inward-looking tendencies of the Abstract Expressionist movement that immediately preceded them. The leading artists in Pop were Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Roy Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.

Representative Artists:


Richard Hamilton

Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Rauschenberg

Andy Warhol

David Hockney


Jeff Koons


Claes Oldenburg


Tom Wesselmann

Project 1: PopArt portrait - individual 

Pop Art Portrait

You must create a Four in One portrait include

1. one black and white portrait

2. one portrait with complementary colors

3. one special effect form Filter gallery

4. one portrait with a manipulated image that people can recognize the person
5. Speech bubble. 

In this Project you will need to use the following tools :

1. Select Tool

2. Filter Gallery

3. Draw Tool

Select tool

Tools in the Select group of the Expert mode 

toolbox

Move tool (V)

Moves selections or layers. 

Rectangular Marquee tool (M)

Selects an area in your image in a rectangular 

box. Hold the Shift key to make the selection a 

square.

Elliptical Marquee tool (M)

Selects an area in your image in an elliptical 

shape. Hold the Shift key to make the selection 

a circle.

Lasso tool (L)

Selects an area in your image in a free-form 

shape. 

Magnetic Lasso tool (L)

Selects part of an image by selecting the high-

contrast edges around a shape.

Polygonal Lasso tool (L)

Draws straight-edged segments of a selection 

border.

Quick Selection tool (A)

Makes a selection based on color and texture 

similarity when you click or click-drag the 

area you want to select. 

Selection Brush tool (A)

Selects the area where you paint with the 

brush.

Magic Wand tool (A)

Selects the pixels with similar colors in a single 

click.

Refine Selection Brush tool (A)

Adds or removes areas to and from a selection 

by automatically detecting the edges.  

Auto Selection tool (A)

Automatically makes a selection when you 

draw a shape around the object you want to 

select. 

Filter Gallery

Step 1 - Choosing an Image

Start with a photocopy or photograph of your own pictures, you can use Photobooth

to take a Four in One photo like this:

Please use the Normal Camara

Step 2 upload the image to Photoshop 
elements
Make sure you save the file the correct way:

 Step 3 use the select tool

Please use the Rectangular Marquee Tool

 Step 4 create a new layer

 Step 5 go Edit and click Copy Merged

 Step 6 go Edit and click Paste

Step 7 repeat step 3 to step 6 for other images  

 The rubric for the 4 images are:

You must create a Four in One portrait include

1. one black and white portrait

2. one portrait with complementary colors

3. one special effect form Filter gallery

4. one portrait with a manipulated image that people can recognize the person

The tools you must use in this project
1. Paint Bucket Tool

2. Filter Tool: please explore Sketch tool

3. Please go Enhance  and click Adjust Color

  4.  Add speech bubbles

5. Add text

Pop Art Comic strip- Group project
You must have
1.  One Educational Theme based story
Possible idea: Teamwork, acceptance, Kindness, friendship...
2. 4 or more comic strip panel
you can google search -comic strip panel 
template png to get the panel strip

 

3. Everyone in your team is responsible to work one or more PopArt style panels.

5. Speech bubble 

4. Tools requirements:

 Select Tool

 Filter Gallery

 Draw Tool

Final Result:

Tools for the Background:

Draw- Gradient

 Draw- Shape   

Tools for Ms. Hsieh:

 Filters Gallery- Sketch- Comic

Enhance- Adjust Color- Adjust Hue/Saturation

Select- Lesso

Draw - Eraser

Draw- Pencil

Tools for text: 

Text 

Shape- Talk Bubble

Add texture to be more like PopArt style:
Filter Gallery- Pixelate- Color Halftone

  Pop Art Comic Presentation: 

1. Finish Pop art Comic by using iMovie to finalize your project.

2. Upload the movie to this Google assignment.

Rubric:
1. Have a title( theme) for your comic Popart.
2. Add sound effect and conversation. 
3. Use One PopArt style for all panels- unity.

Critique /presentation Rubric: 

• What is the theme( big idea)? Why? What do you want people to learn from your comic
• What is Pop Art? What Pop Art elements/concepts you try to use in creating your project?
• What are Photoshop Tools for this project? 
• Art aspect critique: Elements of art / Principles of Design
• Team spirit: What is working? What is not? What is the internalize part of this project you learned?