Not exact matches
Their sculptures, fusing almost readymade
images and almost unforeseen forms, are thus the very concrete synthesis of a position that straddles two options: an expressionist subjectivism based on an authentically
Pop imaginary and a distanced
figurative conceptualism.»
The degree of illusion of their
figurative images and motifs was taken to extremes, since reality seen through the media and its consumable outer sheen was the key theme of
Pop Art.
Various movements, themes, and styles are represented, including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting,
Pop art, and Minimalism, as well as aspects of New
Image Painting from the 1970s and beyond, recent developments in abstraction and
figurative sculpture, and contemporary movements in photography, video, and digital imagery.
It is also related to American Lyrical Abstraction painting of the 1960s and 1970s, The Hairy Who movement in Chicago, the Bay Area
Figurative School of the 1950s and 1960s, the continuation of Abstract Expressionism, New
Image Painting and precedents in
Pop Painting.
The
pop artists, as they were later christened, produced
figurative and representational
images, and used found objects, to create art that was a visual commentary on consumerism.