The 60s were characterized by public protest and revolutions - and Pop Art reinterpreted the events in Technicolor. As this exhibition at the Tate Modern boldly shows, there's way more to it than Andy Warhol.
Image: Nathalie Rancillac
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Discover Pop Art beyond Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein created the most famous icons of Pop Art, but other artists from Europe, South America and Asia also belong to the movement, and a Tate Modern exhibition explores their work.
Image: Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / DACS 2013
The spirit of pop
French artist Bernard Rancillac (b. 1931) created this work, "Pilules capsules conciliabules," in 1966. The Pop Art movement which emerged in the US had already reached Europe by then. Painters like Rancillac reinterpreted the American Pop Art style with irony and humor, creating their own Pop Art universe. Their little-known works are now on show at the Tate Modern in London.
Image: Nathalie Rancillac
Beyond Warhol
Andy Warhol is without a doubt the most influential and renowned Pop Art figure ever. Yet the Tate Modern exhibition "The World Goes Pop," held through January 24, 2016, deliberately left out his famous cans of soup and all the other usual Pop Art suspects to focus on more obscure artists who also developed their own version of the style in the 60s and the 70s.
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Pop Art fusion
Born in Tokyo in 1932, the Japanese artist Ushido Shinohara has been living and working in New York for a long time. He was already dealing with the Americanization of Japanese culture in his early works in the 60s. Here he combined a traditional printing process with loud fluorescent colors.
Image: Ushio and Noriko Shinohara
Collective coat
Nicola L. is the pseudonym of a Moroccan sculptor who has been living and working in New York since the 60s. She also designs art furniture. Her work explores the way the human body interacts with the image of society. For her textile sculpture "Coat," she created a huge rain cape for a group of people in 1973: Everyone can get under other people's skin.
Image: Nicola L.
Marketing provocation
The early Pop artists provocatively used everyday objects, such as cans of soup, boxes of detergent or bubble gum, and turned them into art by reproducing them in bright colors - and their works quickly became very expensive. The Polish artist Jerzy Ryszard "Jurry" Zielinski (1943 -1980) positioned himself against the commercial art market system. Shown here is his work "Without Rebellion" (1970).
Image: Todd-White Art Photography
Cubic like a woman's body
The Peruvian artist Teresa Burger (b. 1935) lives and works in Lima. She belongs to the wave of artists who explicitly adopted a feminist perspective in the 1960s. This 1968 installation called "Cubes" uses graphic elements to formally deconstruct the female body.
Image: Teresa Burga
Car paint
Her name is Judy Chicago and she also happens to have been born in Chicago in 1939. In the 1960s, the artist moved to New Mexico. Her vividly colored work integrates materials such as auto parts, engine hoods and car paints. She sees them as symbols of widespread machoism.
Image: Donald Woodman
Tate Modern in London
In 2013, the Tate Modern had already held a major retrospective dedicated to the father of Pop Art, Roy Lichtenstein. Pictured here is his triple screen installation "Three Landscapes" from 1971. The current exhibition, "The World Goes Pop," can be seen until January 24, 2016, in London.
Image: Estate of Roy Lichtenstein / DACS 2013
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Beyond Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake and David Hockney, from Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle East, several other artists in the 60s and 70s responded to the Pop Art movement.
The Tate Modern's exhibition "The World Goes Pop" shows how many artists throughout the world can be also connected to Pop Art. Their lesser known works went beyond celebrating western consumer culture and served as a language of protest.
Click through the gallery above to get an overview of the exhibition held in London until January 24, 2016.
