Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Tom Wesselmann, etc.
Rosenquist James
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Rauschenberg R.
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Indiana Robert
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Dine Jim
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Hockney David
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Lichtenstein Roy
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Katz Alex
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Pop Art, popular art, gets its inspiration from the popular culture of the years 1955-1970. With its easily recognizable style, it is often seen as a symbol of American art with its imperialistic undertone. In reality, pop art production came from both England and the United States. The name itself was coined in 1955 by British art critique Lawrence Alloway.
Artists moved away from works expressing their inner selves and personal moods to produce pieces representing the clichés and stereotypes of the consumer society (portraits of movie stars and famous personalities, household objects, ads, food, etc). Prints became a popular medium. In a manner reminiscent of Dada, artists staged happenings.
The essential features of this art movement were: the use on a canvas of various materials, other than paint, often cast off materials, as well as very bright colors.
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Others movements :
ITALIAN NOVECENTO -
RAYONNISM -
NEW FIGURATION -
Index chosen on the movements, important currents and events in the XX 2nd century art
I wanted to give here, with 46 various short introductions, some general elements on the movements or currents of art, groups or exhibitions, which concern the artists whose works are presented in gallery or were it recently. The table, above, will make it possible to visually locate the periods or dates in time.
Each entry is followed of a list of the principal artists belonging to the movement or current. It may be that there is only one simple relationship between such or such artist and the movement in which in theory one locates it (Click on the names in blue to reveal work or works currently in stock).
It will be understood, some movements are represented much than of others in my gallery. The same artist will be often found in several movements (as each one knows it, it was thus).
Although these some introductions, briefly developed, are not addressed to the specialists, they will forgive me the few lapses of memory or choices which would lend to discussion. I hope that these tiny introductions will be however useful to some of you. Michelle Champetier
