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Andy Warhol, America’s most famous pop export said, ‘Once you “got” Pop, you could never see a sign the same way again. And once you “thought” Pop, you could never see America the same way again’. The Pop art movement coincided with the birth of pop culture. More than just an artistic style, Pop became a way of life. Lurking beneath the glossy surfaces, bright colours, and graphic attraction of the distinctive style termed ‘Pop art’ was a culture of criticism waiting to be unlocked. Since the Pop art phenomenon of the 1950s and 1960s there has been ongoing critical examination of the movement; many exhibitions have offered alternative frameworks for understanding the movement and its subsequent influence. The continuing interpretation and reinterpretation of Pop art has stemmed from its diverse appeal. ‘POP: The Continuing Influence of Popular Culture on Contemporary Art’ includes works drawn from the Queensland Art Gallery’s collections of Australian, international and Asian and Pacific art. The works range from the early 1960s to contemporary works by artists who demonstrate a ‘Pop’ sensibility. The artists in this exhibition articulate their immersion in popular culture through innovative approaches to printmaking, collage, painting, sculpture and new media. This exhibition examines the works through the interwoven themes of popular and counter-culture, music and celebrity, packaging and advertising, media and medium. Popular culture, disseminated through modern mass media, continues to be a creative source for many artists throughout the world. Japanese artist Takashi Murakami characterises a new genre of artists who engage with a ‘critical pop’ approach to comment on the current climate of rampant consumerism. And then, and then and then and then and then 1994, Murakami’s portrait of his fictitious character, Mr Dob, represents the changing Japanese aesthetic, which embraces a Western-influenced commodity-based culture and an obsession with fashion, media and technological innovations. With conventions continuously smashed and reworked, Pop in all its various guises is still a worldwide phenomenon. View
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Art works (left to right) Lucy Francis Robert MacPherson Howard Arkley Tim Johnson
© Copyright 2003 Queensland Art Gallery
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