Today, the artistic director of the Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra, Guillermo Cervera, dedicates his speech not to a specific creator, but to an artistic movement of contemporary art: Pop Art. Through different artists that are part of the exhibition “INFLUENCERS in art. From Van Goyen to Pop Art “, and alongside other painters and sculptors representative of the movement, we let you immerse in the colorful and amazing universe of pop culture of the second half of the twentieth century.
Born in England in the 1950s thanks to the Independent Group and then, emigrating to the United States, mainly to New York, Pop Art marks a real break in art history.
Beyond an aesthetic renewal, it is a movement that carries a critical ideology in the face of modernity, mechanization, the notion of academic art and the emerging intellectual elitism.
Pop art, as its name suggests, is based on popular culture and illustrates and promotes the power of image. Between irony and criticism, artists highlight a new kind of realism, close to the impersonal world, in reference to mechanization and mass production.
Using objects and materials from mass culture by extracting them from their basic function to convert them in objects of contemplation. Pop Art invents a simple symbolism, capable of touching any of us as an inherent person and an integral part of society.
Known for its showy and striking style, the movement is primarily inspired by advertising and the subject of industrialization. Its artists represent a modern world, a world that is advancing rapidly, with a particular and direct language, all having in common the production of an accessible art to all.
So, we let you discover Andy Warhol, a key figure in the movement, and his screenprints, the animated and striking palette of David Hockney, the work of the “lettering” of the famous Robert Indiana and the contemporary works of Mister Brainwash.
