1. Pop art By Brenda Orozco

2. What is Pop Art? • Pop Art is a art movement where artists focused on familiar objects most common in popular culture, like advertisements • This movement started in England in the 1950’s and came to America in the 1960’s POP ART

3. Jean Dubuffet 1901-1985 Born in Le Harve, France

4. Interesting facts about Dubuffet • Age of 17, Dubuffet moved to Paris to study painting at the Académie Julian • Used Impasto (a layer on top of paint) on some paintings • Such as asphalt, pebbles, and glass • Mainly worked in Paris

5. More Interesting Facts about Dubuffet • By 1924 he gave up art and concentrated running a wine business • Started painting again in 1933 making mainly puppets and masks then gave up again in 1937 • Started again in 1942.

6. Subject Matter • Artist focused mainly on well known objects found in popular culture such as… • Advertisements • Comic strips

7. Mediums • Materials Artists used to produce works of art • Acrylic paints • Inks • Also included cloth, wood, plastic, metal.

8. Artists Involved • Some of the other artists that were involved in this movement were… • Wayne Thiebaud • Richard Hamilton

9. Dubuffet Worked With… • André Breton and Charles Ratton to establish an Art Brut collection • Located in Switzerland. • Famous Quote • Translated into: Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

10. Dubuffet’s Works of Art • Self portrait • 1966 • Marker pen on paper

11. Parade of Objects 1948

12. Peuplement des Terres • 1953 • Translates to “Settlement Lands”

13. Similar Pieces of Art • Theatre de Memoire • Family life (My Favorite)

14. 3-D Art • In New York • Discovery Green park (In Houston Texas)

15. Bibliography • Artcyclopedia.com • Google.com • Wikipedia.org • Dubuffet.com