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Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern
Art
October 19, 2001 through January 13, 2002
Norfolk Southern Large Changing Galleries
October 19, 2001, Norfolk, Virginia - The Chrysler Museum of Art is pleased to present Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art, on view through January 13, 2002. Organized by Associate Curator Wendy Weitman, Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at The Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition visually documents the Pop art movement in Britain, Europe, and the United States.
Pop art, with its vivid colors and accessible consumer images, pervaded the culture of the 1960s. The movement first appeared in London, traveled to New York City, and then spread to Europe. Emerging in reaction to the introspection and heroic gesture of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Pop art looked to advertising, mass-media, consumer culture, and the "everyday" for inspiration.
As a chronicle of the radical social and political changes of the era, Pop art blurs the distinction between fine art and commercial art. Printmaking was the ideal medium to express populist ideas while also providing the means to produce multiple images that challenged the notion of originality and uniqueness in a work of art. With media such as silkscreen printing, photography, and lithography, images could be layered, repeated, and printed in a variety of colors to produce series of "editioned" prints. Multiples and prints were affordable and accessible to a much wider art audience. From its inception Pop art has always been widely enjoyed and collected.
Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923-97) |
Pop Impressions Europe/USA presents
some 90 prints and multiples that document the meteoric rise
in printmaking
in Europe and the United States during the 1960s. The
exhibition is divided into five distinct themes: Proto-Pop,
Mass Media,
Consumer Culture, Erotica, and Politics. These themes
preoccupied Pop artists and mirrored the predominant issues
of a society
on the brink of dramatic change: the assassination of
John F. Kennedy; the Birmingham race riots; the Vietnam War
protests;
the development of the Pill and the liberalization of
sexual mores; the affluence and prosperity of the '60s; and
the
visual bombardment of advertising, mass-media, and television.
Rare and exceptional prints by renowned European and American
artists such as Peter Blake,
Christo, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper
Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert
Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann
will
be on view. Pop paintings from the Chrysler's
own collection will also be spotlighted within the context
of this
exuberant exhibition.
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