Pop Art Informative Speech Outline

Ello’ Friends, Classmates & Mrs McGrath. Today I’m going to be talking about Pop Art. Wait, you’re probably wondering. Jacob… What is Pop art? Gee, if you don’t know.. Then you should probably find out… But I’ll explain it to you.. I guess.

The definition of Pop art says is “a movement in modern art that imitates the methods, styles, and themes of popular culture and mass media, such as comic strips, advertising, and science fiction” (TheFreeDictionary.com, 2015). Pop art was a movement popular in the 1960’s especially in the United States and in the UK, that revolved around pop culture, celebrities, objects. Pop art artists isolated objects, to make viewers see these objects from another perspective. Pop art artists used techniques like silk

Born 1928 in Oakland, United States, Andy Warhol become one of the worlds leading artists in the 1960’s American pop-art movement. (Biography.com, 2015). At a young age, Warhol became interested in Hollywood films and art. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology, and gained a Fine Arts degree. Moving to New York in the 1950’s, Warhol became known for his illustrations as a commercial artist. (Warhol.org, 2015). In 1961, Warhol decided to focus more on painting and created pop art. Warhol did not achieve great success, until he illustrated the famous Campbell soup cans which caused craze in the art world. After, Warhol created more pop art paintings, including more objects but also produced pop-art of celebrities at the time. (Warhol.org,

His paintings of celebrities massively contributed to mass media and pop art and was created also using the silk screen. He used bright, bold colours when printing to make the celebrity pop, and did not use the celebrities natural colours. Most of his celebrity illustrations were repeated, and used up a lot of space, and used dark lines to emphasise features. An example of Warhol’s most famous celebrity illustration was the Marilyn Monroe painting. Warhol created many versions of the same images, making them different colours, or evoking different messages. For example, this picture on the right, Warhol has made Marilyn fade in the left corner, and dark in the right corner. Warhol created this version of the celebrity painting as he aimed to show how Monroe was constantly present in media, news and how everything revolved around her and life, but made her light in the left corner, to show how still, she was mortal, and she would soon enough die out in the media. (Tate, 1962). Warhol’s celebrity pop art have messages of mass media, and pop culture. In the early 1960’s, celebrity obsession became popular across the US, as people were able to see celebrities on television, in the own comfort of their home, and the public lives of people who had fame and glamor became overexposed. Warhol repeated these celebrity images, as he aimed to show the exploitation of celebrities and mass media.