Exhibitions - Previous Exhibitions - Pop Art

03.11.07 – 25.11.07 View gallery

Brighten up the winter months with The Gascoigne gallery and it's eclectic exhibition of Pop Art

Pop Art

Including works by: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Sir Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield and Eduardo Paolozzi

£400 - £5000

Pop Art is the visual artistic movement that emerged in the mid 1950’s in Britain, helped subsequently by the focus brought on Britain by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The term, first used by art critic Lawrence Alloway, described works that could be characterised by the themes and techniques drawn from the popular mass culture – comic books and advertising.

Pop art aimed to employ the images of popular culture, encouraging the audience to reassess the products of the everyday world, emphasizing the kitsch elements of the time as opposed to elitist culture in art. Despite this commercial start, pop art is often considered to be very academic as the unconventional organizational practices used often make it difficult to comprehend. Pop Art is considered to be the last of the modern art movements and the precursors to post-modern art.

Pop Art coincided with the youth and pop music phenomenon of the ‘50s and ‘60s, and became very much the image of fashionable “swinging” London. Peter Blake designed album covers for Elvis Presley and the Beatles, whilst Andy Warhol immortalised stars such as Marilyn Monroe.