National Food Day: Claes Oldenburg
One artist who undoubtedly symbolizes the Pop Art movement’s glorification of American culture by far the most in his subjects of everyday foods was Claes Oldenburg. His first installation/perfo ...
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Jewish American Heritage Month: Jim Dine
I will wrap up Jewish American Heritage Month with a great artist who has transcended the label “Pop Art” in brilliant ways in his art. Jim Dine emerged from the generation of American Pop ...
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Artist Birthday: Marisol
Marisol Escobar was one of the few women artists’ names associated with Pop Art. While she was renowned for her sculptures of celebrities and politicians, her anonymous figure sculptures contain ...
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Artist Birthday: Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg believed that art should literally be made of the ordinary world. His theory was that the reality of art would replace everyday reality. An important early work was The Street (1960). ...
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Remembering Wayne Thiebaud
We lost a truly unique artist this past December 25th. I associate Wayne Thiebaud more with New Realism of the 1960s, but he has been inexorably linked to Pop Art in many Western art history texts. Re ...
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Rethinking Classicism: Andy Warhol
Let’s consider modern classicism in the United States for today’s Rethinking Classicism post. Andy Warhol created some of the most recognizable, iconic artworks of the mid-1900s Pop Art mo ...
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A Bridge: Jasper Johns
The impression a reader gets from some surveys of art history, unfortunately, is that one artistic movement ends and another picks up in a totally different direction. We know this is not true when we ...
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Ode to Wood: Marisol
The Davis Art Gallery just opened a show called All About Wood. In that spirit, I’m showing you one of my favorite wood pieces. Several years ago at a Christmas party we played an art histo ...
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Pop Art, Again! Patrick Caulfield
While American art was “discovering” abstraction in the years immediately following World War II (1939–1945), Britain was exploring new territory. Their experience with abstraction h ...
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Art at the Beach: Tom Wesselmann
This week I present you with one of the more witty aspects of Pop Art. Pop Art parodied American culture in all of its aspects. Naturally, beach culture and tanning would be one of them. And naturally ...
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