Pop art developed in the mid 1950’s in England but realized it’s fullest potential in New York in the 1960’s. The media and advertising were favorite subjects for Pop Art’s often witty celebrations of consumer society. To me this was the era that American people got obsessed with food. Most of the pop art works are of food which was also around the time that fast food drive thru’s were becoming widespread in the United States. So this is what I chose for my exhibit….FOOD:)
Hamburger
Andy Warhol
Acrylic on Canvas
1985-1986
Campbell’s Soup Can
Andy Warhol
Silkscreen on Canvas
1964
7 feet tall glass coca cola bottle painting
Andy Warhol
1962
Andy Warhol was an American painter, print maker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement knows as pop art. Warhol was a hypochondriac, he developed a fear of hospitals and doctors. Which is ironic because he died at the age of 58, the doctors were later sued by Warhol’s family for wrongful death.
Spoonbridge and cherry
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
1985-1988
Giant BLT
Claes Oldenburg
1963
Blueberry Pies
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen
1999
Claes Oldenburg was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929. He attended Yale University from 1946-1950 and became an American Citizen in 1953. He began working with Coosje Van Bruggen later in his career and they were married in 1977.
Coosje Van Bruggen was born in groningen, the Netherlands in 1942. From 1971 to 1976 she taught fine arts and arts history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, the Netherlands. Ms. Van Bruggen passed away in Los Angeles, California in January 2009.
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Your blog was very well organized with the theme of Pop Art and more specifically Food within Pop Art. I totally agree with your explanation that there were many fast food chains growing as to why food was such a hot topic among artists. All of your chosen paintings fit within your theme and they all had factual details on them. Though one of the details for the exhibit was to have paintings dated after 1975 and there were a few from the 60’s. We can see visually how these pieces connect with your theme, so much explanation wasn’t necessary. My personal favorite is the Blueberry Pies sculpture because the blue color stands out nicely with the blue sky background and I love pie! However, I liked all the pieces chosen and I feel they are relevant because food is such a big part of the American lifestyle. We love great food and lots of it! If you had to pic only one food painting to represent America, What would it be of? Your blog was easy to read and very straightforward. I enjoyed learning more about the artists Warhol, Oldenburg, and Van Bruggen.
Your blog reminds me of an episode of the Simpson’s when Homer attempts to build a barbecue and it solidifies in cement and becomes outsider art. In that episode he is caught daydreaming at a painting of a can of split-pea soup… with ham. I don’t know if Andy Warhol ever did a split pea soup can, but I did learn of his uncanny fears and of his relatively young and ironic death. However, I would like to know what it was that killed him.
Based on your blog, I find Claes Oldenburg a much better pop artist because his art was a lot larger and more realistic than Andy’s. The three-dimensional figures make me want to jump inside of them or walk on top of them and this is a sensation not many people can say they have felt without looking at his work.
These pieces are quite interesting I am not sure I would want them on my front lawn but they are very creative in there simplicity.