Pop art is a kind of medium that takes mundane, everyday kind of objects and draws them in a simplified, almost abstract form.
2. Brief biography (3 to 4 sentences) of Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis was an artist who began under the wing of Robert Herni. His first works were merely covers and drawings for papers, but then he dabbled in watercolors, which had a huge impact on him. One of the more notable things about Stuart Davis was how he affected American Cubism. His art was centered more on the synthetics rather than the analytical aspect of this medium. He moved from realistic to abstract paintings, drawing some that doubled as both a piece of art and an advertisement. Even though he his paintings were abstract, Davis claimed that all of his works could claim American daily life as their source of inspiration.
3. Brief biography (3 to 4 sentences) of Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana, or Robert Clark, was an artist much like Stuart Davis, full of creativity and ideas. His pop art is edgy, multicolored, and certainly stands out. Influenced by both American cultural and such things as road signs, Indiana used his works of art to express his positive and negative views on american life.
4. Choose a favorite work from each artist and write 3 to 4 sentences describing why you like the work of art/ find it interesting. Be specific. Include the title and date of the work.
Title: Constance Fletcher
Year: 1977
The painting Constance Fletcher is appealing to me for several reasons. One of those is the way Indiana paints her body. He has designed her dress and hat so that even though a head hasn’t been drawn in, you can see a rough outline of where it would be and what shape it has. This is a brilliant usage of positive and negative space. He also brings in the positive and negative technique to add detail to her umbrella and hat. The simplicity in this piece of art is also very nice. He uses big shapes, only going into detail on her hat and on the sleeves of the dress.
Visa
1951
Champion seems like a painting that clearly portrays Stuart Davis’s style. It’s an abstract piece of cubist art that also has some lettering in it. It is in fact the lettering that makes it so interesting to me. I like how he takes something both abstract and realistic and puts them together so they complement each other. To me, the poster has an excited, charged energy about it, probably due to the fact that it says “champion” and seems to have confetti all around it. It inspires a sense that someone won a race, or a game.
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