Pop Art

By masonryan11111

  • Eduardo Paolozzi uses the word pop in a piece of artwork

    Eduardo paolozzi, a Scottish illustrator/artist and leader of the Independent Group, begins a new style of art in the peice known as I Was a Rich Man's Plaything. This artwork included cut cut-up images of a young girl, cherry pie, a Coca-Cola logo, and the word pop.

  • Paolozzi presents Bunk! to the independent group

    Eduardo presented a lectur to the IG at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London with a series of collages titled Bunk! The peices included found objects like comic book pages, advertisements, magazine covers, and much more mass-produced graphics that refered to popular American culture. The IG was a group which members included William Turnbull, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, and the art critic Lawrence Alloway.

  • Many Artists and Critics start to use the term "Pop"

    John McHale, from the IG group, starts using the phrase Pop Art to describe an aesthetic expressed in art in response to commercialization ofWestern Culture.

  • Richard Hamilton's iconic Pop collage goes on display

    The collage Just What Is It that Makes Today's Home So Different and So Appealing? by Richard Hamilton is displayed at the WhiteChapel Art Gallery in London. This is when the Pop Art movement took off.

  • Hamilton defines Pop

    ‘Popular (designed for a mass audience); Transient (short term solution); Expendable (easily forgotten); Low Cost; Mass Produced; Young (aimed at Youth); Witty; Sexy; Gimmicky; Glamorous; and Big Business’

  • Peter Blake creates On the Balcony

    This painting shows random people holding peices of well known art peices.

  • Lawrence Alloway establishes Pop Art

    ‘The term, originated in England by me, as a description of mass communications, especially, but not exclusively, visual ones’
    Art critic Lawrence Alloway publishes the essay The Arts and the Mass Media which uses the phrase ‘mass popular art’.

  • Pop Art comes to he U.S.

    American artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg pioneer US Pop Art, using mass imagery, making collages and screen printing.

  • Roy Lichenstein produces his first peice of Pop Art

    ‘Pop Art is the use of commercial art as a subject matter in painting. It was hard to get a painting that was despicable enough so that no one would hang it – everybody was hanging everything. The one thing everyone hated was commercial art; and apparently they didn’t hate that enough either.’ Roy Lichtenstein

  • Andy Warhol has his first solo art show

    Warhol's first solo show consisted of 32 paintings of Cambell's soup cans. The style of Pop Art is being established with the common, primary colors, mainstream media, silkscreening, collages, irony, and large scale canvasses.

  • Warhol exhibits Marilyn Diptych

    At Warhol's first solo show in New York, he displays the Marilyn Diptych. This was only a few months after her death.

  • Symposium on Pop Art is held at Museum of Modern Art, NY

    The symposium introduces the term Pop Art to the art community. Warhol and Duchamp are in the audience.

  • The Guggenheim presents landmark Pop Art show

    Six Painters and the Object curated by IG’s Lawrence Alloway marks the high point of Pop Art with work by Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol included.

  • Lichtenstein’s Whaam! Goes on display

    Whaam! is exhibited at Leo Castelli’s gallery in New York City. The work epitomises Lichtenstein’s style – comic strip motifs, bright primary colours, large format, stylised form and humour. Tate Gallery bought the painting in 1966 for £3,940 and it is now on permanent display at Tate Modern, London.

  • Life magazine voices Pop Art backlash

    The magazine publishes an article on Lichtenstein with the title ‘Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?’ which galvanises distrust and criticism of the Pop artists as money-making copycats.

  • Warhol uses screenprinter

    At The Factory in New York Andy uses a screenprinter.

  • Roy Lichenstein quits producing Pop Art

    Roy abandons his iconic Pop Art style and starts working on modern sculptures and paintings.

  • Peter Blake designs Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve

    The Beatles release their eighth album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with art done by Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth.

  • Warhol is shot

    A radical feminist named Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol which changed his life forever. Pop Art was soon to come to an end.