Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
Date: September 16, 2017 – January 14, 2018
Curated By: Billie Milam Weisman
Venue: Reading Public Museum
500 Museum Road
Reading, PA 19611
Tel. 610-371-5850
www.readingpublicmuseum.org
When the Pop art movement first surfaced in the mid 1950s artists sought to challenge traditional conceptions of art making by incorporating consumer culture and everyday objects into their work. Artists during this period transformed icons associated with mass media, comic books, and popular culture into visual expressions that often reflected a growing societal infatuation with consumerism.
When it originated, the Pop art movement sought to ironically emphasize images representing the commonplace or kitschy elements of a given culture. Today, contemporary artists have elaborated on the traditions established by the Pop artists who created an aesthetic style that reflected the changing needs and interests of varying societies. This exhibition merges art that reflects and comments on popular culture and vernacular of the 1960s until the present with selections curated from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. …read more about Pop Culture
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