Pop art exhibition

Today I'm going to talk about the "Pop art Myths" exhibition that took place from June 10 to September 14, 2014 in the Thyssen- Bornemisza Museum located in Paseo del Prado, 8, Madrid. Even if the exhibition is no longer available in the museum , you can still visit it virtualy on their official website.

Paintings from many artists where present at the exhibition, some are not very famous but some others are the most famous of the pop art movement such as Andy Warhol and Liechtenstein who are not only the most famous but also the most present artists in the exhibition . These two artists' paintings are simple but very interesting, some such as Look Mickey, 1961 painted by Lichtenstein or Double Mickey Mouse,1981 by Andy Worhol. These two paintings are very simple but in the same time have hundreds of interpretations.

As a senior student in literary studies I think Pop art is a very interesting movement , which doesn't mean that all the paintings are masterpieces but most of them are really interesting, In the Thyssen museum exhibition, there was a painting that really caught my eye, Still Life #·34, 1963 painted by Tom Wesselmann.

Still life #34

1963

Tom Wesselmann

Aquavella Galleries

This painting was painted with a regular technique which is acrylic and collage on panel , but what I think is special about this painting is it's shape, it's circular with a 120.7cm diameter. I think the size tells us a bit a about the painting before we see it, because the paintor didn't chose a precise size he just cut a circle on panel and painted it , also with the fact the painting is round unlike others that are usually rectangular. The fact that the painting is round and it's bright colors is what made this painting get my attention at first but then after looking at it for several minutes it is also what is painted that interested me a lot. The pear, the milshake, the cigarret pack, the Coca-cola, the nuts and the flours are all daily american life objects but which one by one make nothing but together they form a (in my opinion) very beautiful painting which maybe doesn't really have a secret message that it wants to forward exept that with daily life objects we can make something amazing. After all I think that's pop art's main objective, to show that anything can be transformed into art, from daily life objects or habits to comics.

If you live in Sydney, Australia and you want to check out a pop art exhibition , well YOU'RE IN LUCK because for $20 you can see the exhibition in the Art Gallery NSW until March 1st 2015. 

Hope you liked my review and hope to see you soon in a new review. Cherio!