Sentences with phrase «british pop art movements»

Jones first gained attention as one of the founding members of what would become the British Pop Art movement when he was included in the epoch - making 1961 exhibition «Young Contemporaries» — despite being expelled from the Royal College of Art the year before.

In the Young Contemporaries exhibition of 1961 in which he exhibited alongside David Hockney and R.B. Kitaj, he was first identified with the emerging British Pop Art movement.

To celebrate the opening of Tate Modern's Richard Hamilton retrospective, we've profiled the five most important figures in the British Pop art movement, from elder statesmen to artists who died before their time.

This exhibition is a retrospective covering four decades of work byJoe Tilson, one of the leading figures associated with the British Pop Art movement.

Peter Blake is known as one of the leading figures of the British Pop art movement, and central to his work is his interest in images from popular culture.

Jones first gained attention as one of the founding members of what would become the British Pop Art movement when he was included in the epoch - making 1961 exhibition «Young Contemporaries» — despite being expelled from the Royal Collegeof Art the year before.

As a major contributor to the British Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Hockney is considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.

Seen as a founding member of the British Pop Art movement in the 1960s, he has been the subject of countless solo exhibitions worldwide including a major touring retrospectives staged at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Tate Gallery, London in 1988, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London (1995 - 6).

A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.

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An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

Although both British and American pop art began during the 1950s, Marcel Duchamp and others in Europe like Francis Picabia and Man Ray predate the movement; in addition there were some earlier American proto - pop origins which utilized «as found» cultural objects.

After training at Wimbledon School of Art she moved in 1959 to that hub of British Pop, the Royal College of Art, where she met and worked with key figures from the movement.

From Blast to Pop features works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and William Turnbull and explores the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism (England's first abstract art movement) and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

Much of his work provides artistic affirmation of the Black Is Beautiful movement, enlarging images of black models and performers while also building on Pop Art and»60s psychedelia and presaging 1980s appropriation art, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris OfilArt and»60s psychedelia and presaging 1980s appropriation art, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris Ofilart, as well as the patterned collage paintings of the British artist Chris Ofili.)

Considered as one of the most influential British artists of the 20th - century David Hockney was an important figure in the 60s pop art movement.

As a major contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960's, David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th - century.

Featuring over one hundred works by important British avant - garde artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and William Turnbull, the show explored the period between two defining movements in English Modernism: Vorticism, England's first abstract art movement, and British Pop art of the late 1950s.

David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century, and was a key member of the Pop art movement of the 1960s.

Originally a British movement of the late 1950s, Pop Art interpreted images from consumer culture with black humor, criticism, and irony.

During his early career of the early 1960s, Richter was introduced to American and British Pop art, a style which was just becoming known in Europe, and also to the Dadaist Fluxus movement and its Happenings, founded by the Lithuanian - born American art theorist George Maciunas (1931 - 78).

The term Pop - Art was invented by British curator Lawrence Alloway in 1955, to describe a new form of «Popular» art - a movement characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular cultuArt was invented by British curator Lawrence Alloway in 1955, to describe a new form of «Popular» art - a movement characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular cultuart - a movement characterized by the imagery of consumerism and popular culture.

The term Pop Art was coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway back in 1954, but it was during the 1960s that this playful movement took oArt was coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway back in 1954, but it was during the 1960s that this playful movement took oart critic Lawrence Alloway back in 1954, but it was during the 1960s that this playful movement took off.

Reminiscent of the 1960s Op Art movement, especially the British painter Bridget Riley, Auerbach's hypnotic paintings, sculptures, books and prints reflect abstraction, Minimalism and even Pop, with a meticulous attention to craft.

The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and»60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to the prosaic iconography of its painting and sculpture.

Christie's Modern British and Irish Art sales present a broad and exemplary sample of the innovative achievements and stylistic movements of the 20th century, from British Impressionism to Post-War abstraction and Pop Art.

One of the best known British pop artists, Blake is considered to be a prominent figure in the pop art movement.