ARTISTS RESEARCH PAGES You are to produce STUDIES POP ARTISTS Pages 10-11 (copies) and INFORMATION on Andy Warhol the following artists in Roy Lichtenstein OP ART ARTISTS 14- 15 preparation to stick on your Bridget Riley ARTIST RESEARCH pages. Victor Vaserley PSYCHEDELIC ARTISTS 18-19 Wes Wilson Victor Moscoso
A reminder When you produce an ARTIST RESEARCH page it must include the following :- • A title – the artists name • Images of their work • Information – biographical and about their work • Studies – copies of examples of their work in which you have tried to recreate a chosen image in an appropriate media • Annotation – notes about what you like about the artists work, why you chose the particular image to copy, what went well about your study and what your next steps are
If you haven’t got your sketchbook at home, do your studies on paper that can be collaged in at a later date. Try to use a range of papers and drawing media/techniques. Similarly do your annotations that can be stuck in later. Again try to use a range of appropriate papers.
Notes and Tips…… • All the WRITTEN INFORMATION for the pages is on the first page. • The images are on the following pages. • Some of the images have been turned on their side to make them bigger. • Include the Title and Date of a picture when you stick it your book • If you can research and print your own images that would be great. When doing your Annotation …Don’t forget….. Your OPINION? ✓ What you like and why? ✓ What you don’t like and why? ✓ How will you use this work to inspire you? Next steps…..
HLC - Try not to merely COPY but to include elements that you particularly like to INFLUENCE/DEVELOP your own style. NOTE the mages below are NOT by the artists we have looked at, but pictures that have ‘hints’ of their influences. POP ARTISTS Andy Warhol, 1928 - 1987, was the leading artist of American pop art, known as the "Pope of Pop." Known mostly for his silk screens of consumer culture and celebrities, he also produced drawings, sculptures, audio recordings, television shows, films, fashion, performance art, theater, photography, and early digital art. His first exhibition featured his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, and he later created art pieces of Coca-Cola cans and Brillo boxes at his "Factory" studio in New York City. His most famous pieces are 10 silk-screen prints of Marilyn Monroe entitled Marilyn and eight prints of Elvis Presley, Eight Elvises. Warhol also coined the term "fifteen minutes of fame." His works shocked audiences accustomed to appreciating art in an emotional and sentimental way.
Roy Lichtenstein, 1923 – 1997, was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and decorative artist. His work is most distinctive for its use of comic book and advertisement style and content involving the patterns of coloured circles that replicate benday dots used in newspapers. His most popular paintings are Spray, Whaam!, As I Opened Fire, and Drowning Girl. His Mirrors series questioned whether representational art directly represented reality. Lichtenstein became a household name for the way he used stencil-like dots, thick lines, bold colours, and thought bubbles to represent the comic book style. He used the grand scale of billboards to display his work.
OP ARTISTS Bridget Riley, born: 24 April 1931 (age 89 years), is an English painter. She is one of the best known names in op art, an art movement which uses optical illusions, wavy lines and black and white. She was born in London in 1931, studied at Cheltenham Ladies College and worked in an advertising agency. She was also a teacher for a short time, and worked in a glass shop. Her first solo exhibition was held in 1962 at Studio One in London. Since then her paintings have increased in value. In 2008 one of her dot paintings sold for over 2 and a half million pounds. The geometric patterns in Riley’s paintings often suggest movement. Some people have reported feeling seasick or experiencing a falling sensation after looking at them for too long. Although best known for black and white paintings, Riley also uses colour. She has always been interested in the effects of colour and contrast in her work. Some of her most well-known works include Movement in Squares, Diagonal Curve and Cataract 3. Her work Red Movement contains several colours, but has no red in it.
Victor Vasarely 1906–1997, was a Hungarian-French artist, who is widely accepted as a "grandfather" and leader of the Op art movement. His work entitled Zebra, created in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op art. Vasarely eventually went on to produce art and sculpture using optical illusion. Over the next three decades, Vasarely developed his style of geometric abstract art, working in various materials but using a minimal number of forms and colour. In 1959, Vasarely patented his method of unités plastiques. Permutations of geometric forms are cut out of a coloured square and rearranged. He worked with a strictly defined palette of colours and forms (three reds, three greens, three blues, two violets, two yellows, black, white, gray; three circles, two squares, two rhomboids, two long rectangles, one triangle, two dissected circles, six ellipses) which he later enlarged and numbered. Out of this plastic alphabet, he started serial art, an endless permutation of forms and colours worked out by his assistants.
PSYCHEDELIC ARTISTS Wes Wilson - was one of the best-known designers of psychedelic posters. Born: 15 July 1937 (age 81 years), Sacramento, California, United States Is generally acknowledged as the father of the ’60s ROCK CONCERT POSTER Wilson is also reported to have been inspired by Alphonse Mucha, Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele. He invented a style that is now synonymous with the, psychedelic era. In particular, he is known for inventing and popularizing a psychedelic font around 1966 that made the letters look like they were moving or melting. His style of filling all available space with lettering, of creating fluid forms made from letters, and using flowing letters to create shapes became the standard that most psychedelic artists followed
VICTOR MOSCOSO is a Spanish-American artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. Born: 1936 (age 82 years), Victor was the first of the rock poster artists of the 60’s era with FORMAL ACADEMIC training and experience He borrowed from comic books, VICTORIAN images, Art Nouveau, and pop art. Moscoso's use of VIBRATING colours was influenced by painter Josef Albers, one of his teachers at Yale. The vibration is achieved by taking colours from the opposite end of the colour wheel, each one having equal value (dark to light) and intensity (brightness). He was the first of the rock poster artists to use PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLAGE in many of his EPONYMOUS posters. Another feature of his work was his almost ILLEGIBLE LETTERING Eight Elvis Created in 1963
Andy Warhol
Marlin Diptych ‘Dollar Sign’ Following Marilyn Monroe’s death in August 1962, Warhol created this masterpiece which 1981 consists of 50 images of Marilyn using the same publicity photograph from the film titled Niagara.
Whaam! 1963 Girl with Hair Ribbon 1965 Roy Lichtenstein WES WILSON
VICTOR MOSCOSO Fall 1963 Blaze 1964
Nataraja 1993
"Epoff" Vega Nor, 1969 Zebra, 1937