Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
Roy Lichtenstein was commissioned to create the cover for Art in America's New York issue. It depicts a fantasy panorama of the World's Fair that was then being held in New York. Lichtenstein was one of the young artists hired to produce a mural...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
This very early major European show of "American Pop Art" appeared even before the important Venice biennial. Here the key pieces of Pop painting and sculpture are already in place. Pontus Hultén arranged this seminal exhibition and its beautiful...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
This retrospective of Hamilton's Pop works begins with his 1956 Just what is it… collage, and proceeds on to images that were inspired by Playboy articles, pin-ups, and even the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Hamilton writes in the catalogue that what...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
The 32nd Venice Biennial was the breakout point for American artists on the international art scene. The U.S. pavilion was organized by the Jewish Museum and featured eight key contemporary artists, who would become among the recognized core group...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
This exhibition was the creation of Lawrence Alloway, one of the people responsible for This is Tomorrow. The six artists in the exhibition, Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol, form the core group of Pop painters and...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
The museum divided the material for this exhibition into three sections; mixed media, works by Johns and Rauschenberg, and Pop Art. Although part of the Pop movement, Johns and Rauschenberg were already seen as something apart and earlier from the...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
The title of this exhibition reflects the idea that the art being created by this new generation was uniquely American. In fact, the artists are referred to as the "new patriots of American art." Interestingly, the word Pop appears nowhere in this...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
Janis selected a very international group of artists, which he exhibited under the anglicized term New Realists in reference to the contemporaneous French movement, Nouveau Réalistes. This show is recognized as the first major group exhibition of...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
The Independent Group was composed of artists, architects, and critics who would meet to discuss issues such as the role of mass media in contemporary fine arts. In fact, they used the term Pop art to refer to images created by and for the mass...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
This exhibition is an addendum to Six Painters and the Object. Lawrence Alloway selected the six California painters to represent the Pop movement as currently evolving on the West Coast. In his catalogue essay, Alloway stresses the adaptation of...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
Although this was artist and poet Ting's conception, it was under the guidance of Sam Francis that the monumental project took form. Francis assembled the group of artists to create the 68 lithographs that would accompany Ting's poems. The images...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
Jim Dine designed the cover for this catalogue. Alan Solomon's essay brilliantly defines the aims and objectives of the new figurative artists. Despite the name of the exhibition, the word Pop is not used to define the art or artists. In addition...
Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007)
This exhibition included what is now commonly referred to as the first Pop image, Richard Hamilton’s collage on modern life, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
