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.
Exploring the influence and legacy of leading figures in Pop Art, the exhibition Pop Prints provides a rare opportunity to examine the work of British, American and Canadian Pop artists together in one exhibition. The diverse set of prints in this exhibition demonstrate how Pop Art, with its emphasis on repetition of the image and the appropriation of imagery from mass culture, had been especially drawn to the technical and aesthetic aspects of printmaking. Chosen by celebrated Vancouver Art Gallery curator Ian Thom from the VAG permanent collection, the works in this exhibition include prints by 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 and Joyce Wieland.
Organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery with the generous support of Spectra Energy
Generously sponsored by Funk Signs
Michael Snow
Carla Bley, 1965
lithograph, relief print on paper
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, McLean Foundation Fund
Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery
![Iain Baxter Bagged Day-Glo Oranges [from the Centennial Suite] , 1967 screenprint on paper Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Faculty and Administration of Simon Fraser University Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2595c15f38e46cf7b28031/1622153706619-EAVUL9C9H2IJYUP7QKOP/797C425C-EA68-4C45-8D35-B16C604D1DAF.jpg)