Transcript Post-Modernism

Andy Warhol
 1928-1987
 Andy Warhol began as a commercial
illustrator, and a very successful one, doing
jobs like shoe ads for I. Miller in a stylish
blotty line that derived from Ben Shahn. He
first exhibited in an art gallery in 1962,
when the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles
showed his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans,
1961-62. From then on, most of Warhol's
best work was done over a span of about
six years, finishing in 1968, when he was
shot.
Roy Lichenstein
 1923-1997
 He was born in New York City in October
1923. His parents were middle-class and he
described himself as having had a quiet and
uneventful childhood. Though art was not
taught as part of the curriculum at his high
school, in his junior year he started to draw
and paint as a hobby. His first subjects
were jazz musicians (the product of a
youthful enthusiasm for their music), and
his work was affected by Picasso's Blue and
Rose Period paintings, which he knew from
reproductions.
Jasper Johns
 Jasper Johns was born in 1930 in Augusta, Georgia,
and raised in South Carolina. He began drawing as a
young child, and from the age of five knew he wanted
to be an artist. For three semesters he attended the
University of South Carolina at Columbia, where his
art teachers urged him to move to New York, which
he did in late 1948. There he saw numerous
exhibitions and attended the Parsons School of Design
for a semester. After serving two years in the army
during the Korean War, stationed in South Carolina
and Sendai, Japan, he returned to New York in 1953.
He soon became friends with the artist Robert
Rauschenberg (born 1925), also a Southerner, and
with the composer John Cage and the choreographer
Merce Cunningham.
Claes Oldenburg
 Claes Oldenburg was born January
28, 1929, in Stockholm.
 Oldenburg studied literature and art
history at Yale University, New Haven,
from 1946 to 1950. He subsequently
studied art under Paul Weighardt at
the Art Institute of Chicago from
1950 to 1954.
Tom Wesselmann
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February 23,1931- December 17, 2004
Tom Wesselmann was one of the contributors to the three
original portfolios that launched the Pop Art Movement and
remains one of the vigorous of the group still producing
works. His works are in most major American museums,
including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney
Museum in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington
D.C., the Walker ArtCenter and the Minneapolis Institute of
Fine Arts in Minneapolis, the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Fine
Arts, the Worcester Art Museum, the Princeton University
Art Museum, the Atkins Museum of Fine Arts in Kansas City
MO, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Cincinnati
Art Museum, and many others.
Robert Rauschenberg
 Born in Port Arthur, Texas in 1925,
Robert Rauschenberg imagined
himself first as a minister and later as
a pharmacist. It wasn't until 1947,
while in the U.S. Marines that he
discovered his aptitude for drawing
and his interest in the artistic
representation of everyday objects
and people.