17th October 2015
Tate Modern - a pop-tastic opportunity to get to know the pop-art that we never knew... The colours, the attitude and the references to popular culture are all there... but who are the creators? We go in search of answers.
The world goes pop tells the global story of pop art, breaking new ground along the way, and revealing a different side to the artistic and cultural phenomenon. From Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle East, this explosive exhibition connects the dots between art produced around the world during the 1960s and 1970s, showing how different cultures and countries responded to the movement.
Politics, the body, domestic revolution, consumption, public protest, and folk – all explored and laid bare in eye-popping Technicolor and across many media, from canvas to car bonnets and pinball machines. The exhibition reveals how pop was never just a celebration of western consumer culture, but was often a subversive international language of protest – a language that is more relevant today than ever...
Another brilliant show from Tate Modern. We left feeling inspired and upbeat, educated and visually refreshed... The works on show looked so 'now', I particularly liked the work of Judy Chicago... Big and bright. Brash, bold and beautiful. (The red coat by Nicola L is shown at top)
The world goes pop tells the global story of pop art, breaking new ground along the way, and revealing a different side to the artistic and cultural phenomenon. From Latin America to Asia, and from Europe to the Middle East, this explosive exhibition connects the dots between art produced around the world during the 1960s and 1970s, showing how different cultures and countries responded to the movement.
Judy Chicago - Birth Hood 1965
Ushio Shinohara - Doll festival 1966
Ushio Shinohara doing what he does
Teresa Burga - Cubes 1968
Politics, the body, domestic revolution, consumption, public protest, and folk – all explored and laid bare in eye-popping Technicolor and across many media, from canvas to car bonnets and pinball machines. The exhibition reveals how pop was never just a celebration of western consumer culture, but was often a subversive international language of protest – a language that is more relevant today than ever...
Another brilliant show from Tate Modern. We left feeling inspired and upbeat, educated and visually refreshed... The works on show looked so 'now', I particularly liked the work of Judy Chicago... Big and bright. Brash, bold and beautiful. (The red coat by Nicola L is shown at top)
10 out of 10!
