Year 8 Assessment Task 1– Pop Art Quiz Notes
When: In-Class Week 7 (30 minutes)
What: 15 Multiple choice/true false questions
Pop Art:
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Was meant to be fun
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Was a change from the seriousness of previous art movements, like Abstract Expressionism (where colour, shape, line
etc were used to convey emotion)
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Pop artists made artworks that appealed to their audience and questioned the concept of “what is art”
Changes in the 1950’s and 60’s that influenced the Pop artists:
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Television began to boom. Marketers started advertising more and products, brands and celebrities were becoming
more popular and recognisable.
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More products were being mass produced and some Pop artists created artworks that reflected this idea by repeating
the same image over and over
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The previous art movements had been very serious and the Pop artists wanted to move away from this by using fun,
light hearted images and icons from everyday life.
Characteristics of Pop Art:
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Flat colour,
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bright colours (primary and secondary colours),
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black outlines
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Ben-Day dots
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repeated images
Roy Lichtenstein (Pop Artist):
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Copied and slightly altered scenes from comic strips
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Only used primary colours (red, yellow and blue)
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Used tiny dots in his paintings called Ben-Day dots. These dots referenced the way
comic books were printed in colour using tiny dots to save ink.
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Art critics at the time said Roy Lichtenstein was a copycat and not a real artist be
cause he used images from comics
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This artwork (to the left) is called In the Car and is by Roy Lichtenstein
Andy Warhol (Pop Artist):
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Used repeated images, such as Marilyn Monroe or Campbell's soup
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He sometimes used screen printing to create his artworks, with each
colour being printed separately as a different printed layer.
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These artworks of Marylin Munroe (to the left) are screen printed.
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The Cultural Frame:
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Asks us to analyse an artwork to see how society's beliefs and values
are represented.
The Postmodern Frame:
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Asks us to analyse and artwork to see how an idea has been borrowed or challenged
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Like Marcel Duchamp’s The Urinal which challenged the whole idea of what art was.
Appropriation:
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When something is taken out of its original context (time and place) and is changed to
give it a new meaning
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