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Pop art






Why Pop Art? The term appeared in Britain in the 1950s and came from the word popular. Pop Artists wanted to produce more popular, less academic art, and also make comments on their society. In fact, Pop Art represented very familiar, common objects like beer bottles, soup tins and comic strips. Typical pictures of the period showed one object repeated many times. This imitated the way that people repeatedly see the same products in publicity on TV or in magazines. This art form was especially popular with young people but in general it had a strong impact on commercial, graphic and fashion design.

So who were the artists of the Pop Art movement and how did they start? They came principally from Great Britain and the USA. In the early 1950s, Robert Rauschenberg began to make collages using domestic objects and Jasper Johns painted a series of pictures of American flags. Then, in 1960, British artist David Hockney produced a painting called Typhoo Tea, which showed a packet of well-known tea. This was one of the first pictures with the name of a commercial product. The same year, in the USA, Jasper Johns produced bronze sculptures of Ballantine beer cans.

Soon, everydayobjects became the symbols of Pop Art style. In 1961, Claes Oldenburg produced sculptures of hamburgers and other kinds of fast food, and Roy Lichtenstein painted imaginary details from scenes in comic strips.

Pop Artists were different from previous artists because they didn't make one original picture with a title, but produced large series of paintings, all representing the same object. For example, Andy Warhol produced his famous pictures of Coca-Cola bottles and Campbell's soup tins in large quantities. Warhol didn't only represent well-known consumer products. He was also famous for his series of paintings of legendary contemporary personalities, like Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, which he painted using vivid, unnatural colours.

Task 2. Say if the sentences are True (T) or False (F). Correct the false ones.

1. Pop Art showed the things that people in the 50s and 60s bought, read and saw on TV.

2. David Hockney painted a can of beer in 1960.

3. Roy Lichtenstein was a famous comic strip artist.

4. Andy Warhol made a lot of copies of his pictures.

5. Warhol liked to paint realistic pictures of people.

 

Task 3. Answer the questions.

1. What does the word Pop mean in the term Pop Art?

2. What did Pop Artists paint, in general?

3. Who liked Pop Art?

4. When did Pop Art start and where?

5. Who painted Typhoo Tea and when?

6. Why was it an important picture?

7. How many Pop Artists can you find in the text?

8. Who did Andy Warhol paint?

 

Task 4. Paraphrase the underlined vocabulary units in the text in the written form. Make up 5 fresh-context sentences with the word combinations you like most.

 

Task 5. Write a summary of the text “Pop art”.

 

Task 6. Choose an everyday object or type of food or TV programme and write a short description of it. Say why you think it represents your culture. Remember to use topical vocabulary units.

 

 

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