Op+Art-Pop+Art

OP ART AND POP ART
DANECA RICH DAMARA TASHA

DEFINITION OF OP ART
 * Op art- also known as optical art, is a genre of visual art, especially painting, that makes use of optical illusions. Op art is also known as geometric abstraction and hard-edge abstraction, although the preferred term for it is perceptual abstraction.**

DEFINITION OF POP ART **Pop art- is an art movement int the 1950s to 1970s that incorporated modern popular culture and the mass media. it included such artist as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichenstein.**

MAJOR ARTISTS


 * Bridget Louise Riley- Was Born April 24,1931 in Norwood London. Who is one of the foremost proponents of Op art. Riley was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College. She Studied art. She left school early to look after her ailing father, and suffered a a mental breakdown shortly thereafter. After her recovery she worked in a number of jobs including several as an art teacher and briefly in art department of the advertising company J. Walter Thompson.**

Self Portrait of Bridget Louise Riley

Metamorphosis (Briget Riley)

Jasper Johns Background Number zero to nine(Jasper John)
 * Born and raised in Allendale, South Carolina, Jasper Johns grew up wanting to be an artist. “In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn’t know what that meant,” recounts Johns. “I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different from the one that I was in.”** **Jasper later on studied at the University of South Carolina from 1974 to 1948, for a totoal of three semesters. He then later moved to New York City and studied briefly at Parsons School of Design in 1949. While he was in New York, Jasper met Rober Rauschenber, with whom he had a relationship with, as well as Merce Cunningham and John Cage. Working together they explored the contemporary art scene, and began developing their ideas on art. In 1952 and 1953 he was statined in Sendi, Japan during the Korean War. He is an American contemporaty artist who primarily works in paintinand printmaking. He is also respresented by the Matthew Marks.**

[|Jasper John] Self portrait of Jasper John

This is one of Jaspers well-known pieces of art (Flag)(Jasper John)

Frank Stella was born on May 12, 1936 in Malden Massachusetts. He attended high school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He then attended Princeton University, where he painted while being influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollack and Franz Kline, and majored in history. His biggest influence in becoming an artist was visits to New Yorks art galleries. After his graduation from Princeton in 1958 he moved to New York City. He became a painter and a printmaker. He became a significant figure in minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He is one of the most well-regarded postwar American painters who still works today.

The New Embassy( Frank Stella)

Harran ll (Frank Stella)

Solomon worshipping a Pagan God(Frank Stella)

Self Portrait of Frank Stella

Claes Oldneburg

Claes Oldenburg ^_^ Claes Oldenburg was born January 28,1929 in Stockholm. He subsequently studied art under Paul Weighaardt at the art instituteof Chicago from 1950 to 1954. IN 1959, the Judson galary exhibited a series of Oldenburgs enigmatic images, ranging from monstrous human figures to everday object made from a mix of drawings, collages, and papier-mache. Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967.

Metric Mouse

One of his first monumontal sculptures. It was ultimaltely created in five scales. He got the idea of the metric mouse from going to Disney Land. After he had left he started making sdetches of the metric mouse. His idea came frome the most famous mouse of them all Mickey Mouse.

Spoon Bridge and Cherry



Searching for a subhect that was horizontal and included fountain, elements, so as not to dominate the garden they tried the spoon bridge. And then he had an idea along with coosje they had partnered up in this type of art. They thought t   put a cherry on the spoon. The cherry is mad  from wood to make the cherry part and i huge nail for the stem of the cherry.

Floor Cake

It was finished in 1963. it was a 3-D peice made from many materials such as paint, canvas, foam and many other materials. the sculpture is 9'6" long. It is located in MOMA, NewYork.

LINKS [|Bridget Riley] [|Bridget Riley] [|Bridget Riley] [|Frank Stella] [|Frank Stella] [|Frank Stella] [|Jasper Johns Link] [|Jasper John Link] [|Jasper John Link]

Mrs. Darlings comments: Lots of good information on the artists in the links for this page. Also you found images that represent your artist very well with the exception of "solomon worshipping a pagan god" I wonder about why that is so different in style from the other works by that artist. Could you check that out please? Also spelling or at least the typo's should be checked! I have highlighted the text in the worst offenders but you should check for more.