POP ART

Pop Art Architecture

a style which refers to structures that symbolically represent objects, most often with a hyper inflated scale, colour, proportion, and scheme with fantastic designs, vast sculptures on an architectural scale, or to any architecture produced that is more a metaphor than a building. It is popular, catches attention instantaneously and change the topography where it plays.

American Artist

 were inspired by what they saw and experienced living within that culture.

Early Pop Art

 was fuelled by American popular culture viewed from a distance

Characteristics of Pop Art

• Commercialization

• Popularization

• Dramatization

Commercialization

With  great emphasis  on flexibility  and consumption, and  the pursuit of popular interest, design has further become an integral part of modern market economy and business management. With the rise of humanistic thought, artists began to think about how to better serve the public, which also makes art and goods more integrated and more responsive to the needs of the public. Pop art takes an optimistic attitude towards the culture of the consumption age and the information age, and shortens the distance between art and the public through realistic images, making art break away from the original elegant coat and the exclusive characteristics of the aristocracy.

Popularization

In terms of design, pop style is not a pure and unified style, but a collection of various styles.  He pursues  the popular  taste of  the general  public, pays  attention to  the daily  life, abandons the  artistic fantasy of  perfection and  elegance,  opposes  the restrictions  and restraints  of modernism on design ideas, use bright, flamboyant and even dazzling “original colors” to make eye-catching and unique, and uses popular “symbolic language” and popular techniques to express the psychological demands of the general public.

Dramatization

Novelty, weirdness and strangeness are pursued by pop art. The characteristics of “pop”  design style  are changeable, emphasizing  novelty and  uniqueness, and usually  extremely pursue the  use of strong color  contrast in the design  process. Pop architecture uses  deconstruction, overlap, exaggeration, deformation, collage and other methods to express absurd aesthetic elements.

FAMOUS POP ARTIST

Andy Warhol

Roy Lichtenstein

Jasper Johns

Robert Rauchenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Andy Warhol

• Uses silk screening

• Uses a specially prepared section of silk as a stencil, allowing one silk-screen to create similar patterns multiple times.

Paintings - Campbell’s Soup Cans, Shit Marilyns, Coca Cola 3 (1962)

Roy Lichtenstein

• Rendetion of images employed a unique form of painting called “Benday Dot”.

• Small closely knit dots which applied to form a much larger image.

Painting’s - Look Mickey, In the Car, Happy Taers

Jasper Johns

• Educated at the University of South Carolina and Parsons the New school for Design

• Work with flags, targets, numbers, and maps

• Sculptural ideas into painting

• Every day objects: paint brushes, beer cans, and light bulbs 

• Collages

Painting’s - Three Flags, Map, Target With Four Faces

Robert Rauchenburg

• Constant innovator and improviser

• Moved from style to style and medium to medium, blurring the lines between painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and even performance and dance

• Sculptures were three-dimensional collages, known as “combines”

Painting’s - Canyon, Collection, Erased De Kooning

Claes Oldenburg

• Uses images and objects from the every day world, especially those that are small and unnoticeable

• Worked with large sculptures

• Performance pieces called “Happenings”

Painting’s - Typewriter Eraser, Spoonbridge, Cherry, Ping,

Archi-Foire

designed by Korean-based firm Iroje KHM Architects, the aim of the project is to enhance the identity of commercial buildings by using the concept of ''pop-art'', which is located in Gyeonggi-do, Korea. The design studio explains its design approach in a more contextual manner and Hyo Man Kim, is the lead architect of Iroje KHM Architects, says that ''to respond to context, to give identity as commercial building, the shape of this project has been curved shape like flower. We expect this complex building will be the architectural flower as land mark of this town.''