POP ART

In what country did Pop Art originate

• Poland

• USA

• France

• Great Britain

Pop Art represents ...?

• Pop music and movie stars

• an optimism about life

• mass produced consumer goods

• all of the above

Pop art started in .....?

• the USA in 1970's

• Great Britain in 1950's

• the USA in 1960's

• Great Britain in 1980's

The artist who is considered the first Pop Artist

• Jasper Johns

• Andy Warhol

• Richard Hamilton

• Lawrence Alloway

He originally worked as a 'commercial artist' and his subject matter was derived from the imagery of mass-culture: advertising, comics, newspapers, TV and the movies.

• Robert Rauschenberg

• Andy Warhol

• Richard Hamilton

• Claes Oldenberg

"developed a pop art style that was based on .... mass-communication: the comic strip. It was a style that was fixed in its format: black outlines, bold colors and tones rendered by Benday dots (a method of printing tones in comic books from the 1950's and 60's)."

• Andy Warhol

• Sir Peter Blake

• Marcel Duchamp

• Roy Lichenstein

After World War 2, Great Britain and Europe had suffered a great deal of damage from the bombing of cities, the loss of life and injury of many soldiers and civilians plus the fact that most people lived on basic rations during the war years. Pop art became successful because....

• the USA represented a place of freedom, opportunity and new consumer goods

• it was a reaction against the abstract art style of Abstract Expressionism

• the use of found images, collage, silkscreen printing and film making allowed artists to express their ideas in different ways from traditional art making

• artists could get rich very easily

Which artworks were produced by Andy Warhol?

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which of the following statements are true?

• Roy Lichtenstein developed an instantly recognizable style of Pop Art inspired by the American comic strip.

• Pop Art is essentially a British art movement.

• Claes Oldenburg was the greatest sculptor of the Pop Art movement, creating many large scale public works

• Pop Art was a brash, young and fun art movement of the 1950's.

Which of the sculptures are by Claes Oldenburg?

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