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American Pop Icons May 15–November 2, 2003 Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? That was the question posed by the title of the first Pop artwork, a collage by Richard Hamilton featuring cutout magazine ads and images of consumer products made in England in 1956. By the mid-1950s American artists like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg had thoroughly disrupted artistic convention by including things like lowly newsprint, snapshots, and paint-splattered fabric in their canvases—intrusions onto the sacred space of painting that critics could not abide. "Where were the pure fields of color and expression?" they implored. But by 1962, Pop art's momentum was too great to be stopped, and art collectors and the American public alike were clamoring for pictures of soup cans, celebrities, comic strips, and epic still lifes that mimicked the grand scale of roadside billboards and Cinemascope. American Pop Icons brings together nearly 30 seminal works by eight artists (including Johns and Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenberg, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol) that both influenced and defined the style in its heyday. Roy Lichtenstein, Preparedness, 1968. Oil on three joined canvases, 10 x 18 feet. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 69.1885 |
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