Show Notes
When Pop Art hit its peak in the 1960s, artists embraced polkadots, popular culture, and consumerism. If you’re curious about how soup cans and comics became fine art, join Klaire Lockheart as she shares the details of this Modernist art movement.
Artists and Artwork: Yayoi Kusama (Accumulation No. 1, Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show, Infinity Mirror Room [Phalli’s Field], All the Eternal Love I have for the Pumpkins), Georgia O’Keeffe, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Andy Warhol (Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Diptych, Cow Wallpaper), Lynn Goldsmith, Claes Oldenburg and Patty Mucha (Soft Calendar for the Month of August), Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg (Spoonbridge and Cherry), and Roy Lichtenstein (Look Mickey, Drowning Girl)
Additional Topics: Appropriation, Intersectionality, Soft Sculpture, Jason Pargin (What the Hell Did I Just Read), Abstract Expressionism, Clement Greenberg (“Avant-Garde and Kitsch”), Marilyn Monroe, Serigraphy, Comic Books, CMYK Printing, and Ben-Day Dots
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