pre-Pop Art described, explained in artist quotes - free resource, American art history

pre-Pop Art in America - described and explained in quotes of the involved artists + art images - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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American Pre-Pop Art is here described in artist-quotes of mainly Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. These artists searched for new ways to create modern art without the heavy and emotional implications of former Abstract Expressionism in the United States.

Their artist quotes illustrate the search for a break with Abstract Expressionism / the New York School. Moreover they express the connection and the path towards oncoming American Pop Art.
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Some artist-quotes on American Pre-Pop Art, by artists Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns - as a short introduction of their extended quotes in the PDF:**

• ’I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.’ - artist-quote of Robert Rauschenberg, 1965: in ‘The early 1950s’, Walter Hopps

• ’Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.’. - artist-quote of Jasper Johns, in: ‘Sixteen Americans’, (1959) Dorothy C. Miller, Moma, New York, p. 22

• ’I think a picture is more like the real world when it is made out of the real world.’ - artist-quote of Robert Rauschenberg in: Kenneth Coutts-Smith (1970), ‘The dream of Icarus’, p. 53
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  selection of free art-resources on American pre-Pop Art:

  • artist-quotes of Robert Rauschenberg, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg
  • artist-quotes of Jasper Johns, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]