Pop Art

Pop Art is a movement which began in England in the 1950s, and also in America. It focuses on brands, image and media.

 Richard Hamilton used collage to make a statement about society.

 –Edwardo Paolozii used domestic adverts and posters.

Andy Warhol focused on celebrity,branding, and how he thought that celebrity was a brand, as celebrities often lose their personality when they become famous.

 

Roy Litchenstein:

Roy Litchenstien is famous for his cartoon style portraits, with simple colours and outlines. He used a common method of colouring in comic books, using lots of small dots, made using either by hand or by stencil.

My Roy Litchenstein portrait:

I did a portrait of a classmate, using Roy Litchenstiens style.

 

 

Les Miserables Badge

I decided to make a badge for my propaganda project. In my chosen film, Les Miserables,there is a group of revolutionaries called the Les Amis De L’ABC, and they all wear these tricolour badges:

 

 

The badges that they wear are called Cockades, and originate from the French Revolution in 1789, where the cockades were used to determine a persons political stance. White was for the royals, Red for the revolutionaries. 

 

This was how I made it:

 1. Pin the end of the ribbon to a cork board,folding the end underneath the ribbon. Then fold the ribbon.

2. Pin the rest of the ribbon down.Then glue or sew the folds together where the corners meet.

3.Make another, but of red ribbon, a bit bigger than the white one.

 4. Cut out a round piece of fabric the same size as the red cockade, and glue it to the back. Glue the two cockades together.

5. Glue a piece of fabric on the back, then place a pin, and through the pin put another piece of fabric. glue that down.

 6. Stick on your button, and its finished!

 

 

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism is a art movement that became popular in the 1940s, and was inspired by surrealism. It has a focus on the spontaneous, automatic and the subconscious. Famous abstract expressionist included Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Abstract Expressionist paintings were usually done large scale, and was against other abstract movements such as futurism. It aimed to be rebellious, which meant that it came to be a symbol of artistic freedom in America.

Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko was born in 1903, died 1970,and was of Russian decent, but American born.

• Very dense layers of paint.
• Lots of layers to create complex tone.
• Mixed turpentine with oil paints, so it created a burn on the canvas.
• This means that you can see the colours painted underneath.
• Used contrasting areas of colour, with soft boundaries between them.

His work was abstract/expressionist because:

• The paintings don’t depict anything literally.
• More about the emotion that the image evokes than the actual painting.
• He tried to make his paintings into experiences of tragedy and ecstasy.
• “Tragedy is the only source book for art” Trying to express this as the basic conditions of existence.
• Most of the titles are literal (Black In Deep Red) or numbered ;the titles are not important.

He wasn’t interested in others attempts to interpret his work,  and thought the relationship between the viewer and the work couldn’t be expressed verbally.People might argue that the images are too similar/simple.

His work specifically fits into the idea of American freedom of expression, because there is no set way that his work has to be interpreted-Freedom of interpretation, and the colours blend into each other-they are free to mix.