Today, February 3rd, 2013 is your last opportunity to view eight wall works and one suspended work by legendary
German Pop artist Sigmar Polke at the Portland Art Museum.
At the same time, some artists who were presciently featured in the book, like the Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar (who recently received a stellar Tate Modern show) and
the German Pop artist Michael Majerus (whose estate is now represented by Mathew Marks), are only recently getting their posthumous due.
Mostly, I liked the idea of being an East
German pop artist and not having access to any pop!
Spring: Richter travels to Paris with Lueg; they introduce themselves to Parisian galleries as «
German Pop artists» and see works by Roy Lichtenstein at Galerie Ileana Sonnabend.
In 1963, Richter and Lueg traveled to Paris where they saw Yves Klein's work - the artist had died the year before at the age of thiry - four - at Galérie Iris Clert and introduced themselves to art dealer Ileana Sonnabend as
German Pop artists.
Not exact matches
It omits Sigmar Polke, whose
pop - culture - based, often tawdry paintings are at least a precedent, and Rosemarie Trockel, another female
German artist of her generation struggling in a field that was and maybe still is unusually male.
Part of the international art scene in the early «60s, she exhibited in New York with Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, and other
Pop and Minimalist
artist and in Europe with the Dutch Nul and the
German Zero
artist groups.
While
German artist Wolf Vostell was the frist ot incorporate television sets into his installations, the first formal explorations of video art came during the
Pop Art movement of the mid-twentieth century.
Part of a Hamburg - based clique of
German post-war
artists that included Martin Kippenberger, Wolfgang Bauer, Arnulf Rainer, and others, Albert Oehlen's anxious, heterogeneous body of work was opposed to almost every movement that preceded it, including
Pop, Neo-Expressionism, and conceptualism, though it also derives from many of those same movements.
DATE JOINED CHRISTIE»S: 2017 BASED IN: New York NUMBER OF YEAR IN INDUSTRY: 17 AREAS OF SPECIALTY: Post-War & Contemporary Art with a special focus on American
Pop Art & 1980's NOTABLE SUCCESSES: Established multiple
artist records for Twombly, Warhol, Rothko, Koons, and several younger
artists LANGUAGES SPOKEN: English &
German
One of the largest exhibitions MoMA has ever lavished on an
artist, the Polke show — titled «Alibis» — will serve as a vital introduction to his work (which most Americans have only seen in dribs and drabs) and help viewers understand how his early importation of
Pop techniques helped shape the work of Kippenberger, Oehlen, and the other standard - bearers of visionary postwar
German painting.
In their dislike of being categorized and labeled, they join the ranks of many other
artists, including the German Expressionists, Abstract Expressionists, Pop Artists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upo
artists, including the
German Expressionists, Abstract Expressionists,
Pop Artists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upo
Artists, and Chicago Imagists, who also rejected the labels placed upon them.
German - born and Los Angeles - based
artist Florian Morlat works in a constructivist -
Pop style that combines humble materials like cardboard and wood, with absurdist figurative gestures referencing pop icons like the Beatl
Pop style that combines humble materials like cardboard and wood, with absurdist figurative gestures referencing
pop icons like the Beatl
pop icons like the Beatles.
The works we now present illustrates important lines and tendencies in the Astrup Fearnley Collection's history — from the 1960s British and European
pop painting and
German Neo-expressionism via the British YBA -
artists and the American appropriation
artists in the 1980s and 1990s and to the past decades focus on the younger generation of international contemporary
artists.
Furthermore, the influence of American movies and media had a large impact on the
Germans of our generation and it was the movement of Abstract Expressionism,
Pop Art and minimalism that influenced the generation of
artists we collect.
That same evening Dior opened its inaugural
Pop - Up shop, causing a stir in the fashion world and featuring a collaboration between the fashion house and the
German artist Anselm Reyle.
German artist Dieter Krieg (1937 - 2005) forged a unique blend of
Pop Art,
German and Abstract Expressionism by rendering food, mass - produced household products and, yes, animals, using vigorous gestures with an intensity bordering on religious fervor.
To this day, the colorfully printed raincoats by Frankfurt - based
artist Thomas Bayrle in the exhibition «
German Pop» continue to walk a fine line.
German artist Hans - Peter Feldmann collects in order to appropriate and challenge aesthetic sensibility, Richard Hamilton's use of pre-existing photographic imagery is linked with
pop's consumerist strategies, and Dieter Roth,
German - Swiss conceptual
artist and long time collaborator with Hamilton, alighted most particularly (nay obsessively) on the postcard format, exemplified in Postkarte.
Just a few years later, Richter would style himself as a
German «
Pop»
artist, but in the 80s he returned to pure abstraction for its possibilities of «bitter truth, liberation, and... a completely different and new content... expressing itself.»
While not a movement in the strict sense, the term Capitalist Realism, with its double - edged irony, became a bracket label for a constellation of
artists, including Polke, Richter, and some of the pioneers of
German and European
Pop Art.
The richly textured, seductive paintings of
German artist Neo Rauch are marked by a «distinctive
Pop - Surrealist - Social Realist style,» as described by The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith in 2002.
The present work brings together a variety of media on a stunning and impressive scale from the
artist's trademark raster dots first explored in his visual investigations of
German Pop art in the 1960s to his explorations into abstraction in the 1980s.
While American
Pop Artists like Andy Warhol celebrated the bland ubiquity of supermarket packaging,
German Pop Art couldn't escape the long shadow of the Third Reich.
Konrad Klapheck is a
German artist whose style of painting combines features of realism, surrealism and a
pop art.
As you might expect, Tuymans finds his antecedents in the critical generation of
artists who preceded the neo-expressionists, namely the
Germans Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke during their early,
Pop «capitalist realist» period.
THEATRE JEFF KOONS *** THE TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH IT»S billed as a celebration of the kitsch contemporary
artist Jeff Koons, this vivid one - hour play by leading
German «
pop» playwright...
Of course Capitalist Realism had no such reputation in the U.S.; the
artists were parodying the overnight ascendance of
Pop Art, with its celebrity culture and embrace of everyday commodities, as well as the
German craze for all things American.
But already the art world had moved on and British and American
pop art was the new vogue that emerging
German artists such as Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter were flirting with, whose work from this period would form the basis of their future international fame.
Instead of turning to Conceptual art or
Pop Art, as many
artists did at the time, Baselitz revived the
German Expressionism, previously shut down by the Nazis, and he returned the human figure to a central position in the painting and sculpture.