FINISHED Slab Box

I finically finished the box for my sisters birthday which was a month ago. Oops!! Well she has it now and loves it!!

FINISHED Teapot

My pop art teapot is finished. It turned out so well. I feel it represents Pop Art really well!!

FINISHED Lantern

I finally finished my lantern. It is super cute and chic. I made it for my mom.

Art History Research: Pop Art

Pop Art: 1950-1960s

Characteristics:

• focus on the mass materialistic, consumerist culture of 1960s
• mocking commercial printing and conformity
• Reaction to abstract expressionism

Artists of the Era

Andy Warhol:

Campbells Soup Cans

1962

Marilyn 

1967

Roy Lichtenstein:

Whaam!

1963

The Melody Haunts my Reverie

1965

Art History Research: Abstract Expressionism

Abstract Expressionism: 1945-1960

Characteristics:

• emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation 

• has an image of being rebellious, anarhic, highly idiosyncratic and, some feel, rather nihilistic 

• implies expression of ideas concerning the spiritual, the unconscious and the mind 

Artists of the Era

Wassily Kandinsky:

The White Dot

1923

Picture With an Archer

1909

Willem de Kooning:

Woman IV

1953

An Abstract Painting

1949

Art History Research: Cubism

Cubism: 1907-1914

Characteristics:

• Abstract form
• Geometric shapes
• Simple yet bold

Artists of the Era

Pablo Picasso:

Guernica

1937

The Old Guitarist

1903

Georges Braque:

Violin and Candlestick

1910

Little harbor in Normandy

1909

Paul Cezanne:

The Large Bathers
1905

Forrest
1904

Art history Research: Surrealism

Surrealism: 1920s-1940s

Characteristics:

• Emphasis on the mysterious, marvelous, mythological and irrational to make art ambiguous and strange
• Exploration of dream and unconsciousness as a valid form of reality
• A willingness to depict images of perverse sexuality, scatology, decay and violence

Artists of the Era

Salvador Dali:

The Persistence of Memory

1931

Swans Reflecting Elephants

1937

Rene Magritte:

The Son of Man

1964

Time Transfixed

1938

Marc Chagall:

La Mariée

1950

White Crucifixion

1938