POP PRINTS

Pierre Ayot // Iain Baxter // Peter Blake // Patrick Caulfield // Greg Curnoe // Jim Dine // General Idea // Betty Goodwin // Richard Hamilton // David Hockney // Robert Indiana // Jasper Johns / Allen Jones // Alex Katz // Ronald Kitaj // Gary Lee-Nova // Roy Lichtenstein // Michael Morris // David Mayrs // N.E. Thing Co. // Claes Oldenburg // Robert Rauschenberg // Michael Snow // Joe Tilson // Andy Warhol // Tom Wesselmann // Joyce Wieland

Central Gallery
January 18 to March 22, 2009

Known for its revolutionary collapsing of the boundaries between high and low culture, the array of 1960s artworks that we have come to know as Pop Art has fundamentally changed how we think about art today. The new wave of 1960s artists borrowed from the bold graphic style, bright chromatic colours, and “new era” imagery associated with mid-twentieth century advertising and product design. The manner in which this exciting new universe of promotional pictures translated across television, magazines, and the built environment inspired a generation of artists to abandon expressive forms of art making and instead mimic and adapt these new languages of convenience, sensationalism, and glamour to develop new approaches to picture making.