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Description: | Pop Art arose in the 1960s in opposition to the power of abstract art in the US. Artists began to choose everyday subjects from commercial culture, such as Warhol's images of soup cans and movie stars, and Roy Lichtenstein's comic strip paintings. By 1968, a range of issues had arisen - the women's movement, Vietnam, black civil rights - about which abstract art had nothing to say. Brady's work may be seen as a parody of abstraction by using a cartoon style of production, like that of Lichtenstein or Caulfield, made in a impersonal, almost mechanical style. The large X in the centre may signify that abstract art represented a dead end.
An image showing a large cross in the centre which is surrounded by sharp edged shapes and rounded cloud shaped features | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Pop art Fine arts Oil painting Oil Paintings Art collections | Temporal: | 1968
20th century (1900-1999) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | BRADY; Carlene | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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