Andy Warhol / Roy Lichtenstein Exhibition
Event by Cairns Art Gallery.
The names Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein are synonymous with the influential and international pop art revolution that swept the world in the 1960s. Works by these artists are now iconic references to a time when young artists began to revolt against the prevailing art styles of art being taught at art schools and shown in art galleries around the world.
As part of the Cairns Art Gallery’s International Partnership Program, Andy Warhol / Roy Lichtenstein will open in the first half of 2023. The exhibition includes major prints on loan from the National Gallery of Australia, including works from Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup II 1969 series, a self-portrait from his Artists and Photographs 1970 series, and Electric chairs 1971 series, and Lichtenstein’s celebrated works including Nude with blue hair 1993, and …Huh? 1976.
British curator Lawrence Alloway first used the term ‘pop art’ in 1955 to describe a new form of popular art – a movement based on imagery drawn from popular culture, such as Hollywood movies, advertising, product packaging, television, pop music and comic books.
In the mid-1960s, artists in London and a little later in New York, embraced bold, simple, everyday imagery, and vibrant block colours in their work to create slick images using mechanical methods of production so that the medium of the artwork became as important as its ‘message’. In so doing they sought to destroy the divide between high and low, or commercial and fine, art.
Drawn from the National Gallery of Australia’s extensive collection, this exhibition of major prints by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein is an extraordinary opportunity for Cairns audiences to experience first-hand two of the world’s most famous pop artists of all time.
For more information on the pieces being exhibited visit Cairns Art Gallery website.
Exhibition Runs: 25th March till 18th June 2023
Cost: Free Entry!
IMAGE: Andy Warhol, artist / United States of America 1928-1987 / Multiples, Inc. (publisher) / Portraits from Artists and Photographs (Self portrait) 1970 / offset lithography, synthetic polymer paint / National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra
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