Posts tagged pop art
Andy Warhol at The Factory, New York, 1964
“ I like things to be exactly the same over and over again.” — Andy Warhol, 1964
The Warhol Exhibition opening, the Stable Gallery, New York, 21 April 1964
LSD TV: Robert Abel’s Mindbending Television Commercials of the 1970s - Dangerous Minds has a great article on the psych-freak inspired commercials of Abel and Associates who were pioneers in the use of computer graphics in TV commercials creating tripped out commercials for 7up and Jovan Musk Oil. Then again I grew up seeing this news promo for years in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hey, wait, I don’t remember “SWISH” being part of the old Batman television serious POP inspired action and sound effects, or is that “affect”.
Pop Art Pioneer Richard Hamilton Dies At The Age of 89 - The London-born artist’s best known work was his 1956 collage “Just What Is It that Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?”, the collage featuring a body builder and a tin of ham, earned him the title “Father of Pop”. He also designed the Beatles Beatles’ White Album. See more, in pictures: Hamilton at the Serpentine and Hamilton on his political art.
Was Andy Warhol's 'Campbell's Soup Cans' inspired by Willem de Kooning?
As the Pop art work goes on display at MOCA, the question resurfaces: ‘Why soup?’ The answer may be traced to the Abstract Expressionist.
Roy Lichtenstein, American Flag 1985
A purely accidental pop art moment on the minolta microfiche reader…and print.
Frieze Sucka! - “A visitor takes a photograph with her mobile phone on a painting by American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein entitled ‘Ohhh…Alright…’. The artwork is estimated to fetch 40 million US dollars, and will be auctioned as part of Post-War and Christie’s New York Contemporary Art Evening Sale 2010 in New York on 10 November 2010.”
Radio, 1962, by Roy Lichtenstein (From the Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, Exhibition at SFMOMA.)
Why The Bubble Won't Pop for Pop [Art].
“The best explanation of the art market may be that it is inexplicable, which is one reason its alchemy continues to fascinate and capture headlines. In no other market do we lavish wealth on such useless and arbitrary things…In 1968, in a lecture at MOMA, Leo Steinberg prophetically observed:
‘Avant-garde art, lately Americanized, is for the first time associated with big money. And this is because its occult aims and uncertain future have been successfully translated into homely terms. For far-out modernism, we can now read “speculative growth stock”; for apparent quality, “market attractiveness”; and for an adverse change of taste, “technical obsolescence.” A feat of language to absolve a change of attitude. Art is not, after all, what we thought it was; in the broadest sense it is hard cash. The whole of art, its growing tip included, is assimilated to familiar values. Another decade, and we shall have mutual funds based on securities in the form of pictures held in bank vaults.’”
