May 11, 2008 8:00 am US/Eastern
CBS 2 At The Met: Pop Art, Works On Paper
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Fun and familiar. This is art just about everyone can relate to. Pop Art, a uniquely American art came of age in the early 1960's. Fans are finding their way to the Museum's North Mezzanine Gallery to check out "Pop Art: Works on Paper," It's twenty-two drawings and prints from the Museum's collection.
Associate Curator Lisa Messinger told CBS 2's Dana Tyler that she had a good time choosing what to show off. Messinger said, "For me the collection is very personal. I know the artists I wanted and then within that, I picked pieces that speak to each other. It's meant to be fun. a really was humorous look at American Society."
There may be no greater patron of the Pop Art movement than Andy Warhol. Messinger explained, "He took the Campbell's Soup can, which even today is very popular with families. He really made a name for himself, taking everyday objects. A friend said to him in the 60's to just pick something that everybody knows and make art out of it. I chose these, chicken noodle was my favorite childhood soup!"
Taking a page from the funny papers, more mass media appeal in artist Roy Liechtenstein's "Reverie" from 1965. Messinger said,
"His thing was to take images based on comic book comic strips, then put in his own words something often more ironic. In this case, a young woman singing, melody haunts my reverie , it's all about a love affair gone wrong."
Artist James Rosenquist is still producing bold statements on posters. Visitors can't help but see how the artist's mix of everyday images in "F 1-11," from 1965, is decidedly anti-war. "It's a composite of different elements of the room installation with a young girl's face that could have come out of ad for a cereal. Then on top of her head is really what could be interpreted as a hair dryer or the tip of a missile which was the F-1-11 fighter bomber that the government used in Viet Nam.
A modern take on life and culture in the United States. "Pop Art: Works on Paper, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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