ANDY WARHOL AND THE POP AESTHETIC
Permanent Collection and Loans
ASU Art Museum
Nelson Fine Arts Center
June 21- Sep. 13, 2003
image credit: Andy Warhol, Pink Mao, Serigraph,
42 _” x 42 _”, Courtesy of Marilyn A. Zeitlin
CLOSING RECEPTION
Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003
7– 9 p.m.
Joint reception for the exhibitions:
Mexican Folk Art in Context:
Selections from the Vanesian Collection (Opening)
Museum Store Collects
(Closing)
Philippe Bradshaw: Chains and Video (Closing)
Ceramics Faculty Selects:
Clay from the Collection (Closing)
Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic:
Permanent Collection and Loans
Five early drawings and a classic screenprint of Mao Tse-tung by Andy
Warhol anchor this exhibition of artists who were associated with the
American pop art movement of the early 1960s. Drawn from the ASU Art Museum’s
permanent collection with loans from private collections, the exhibition
includes works by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselman, Ed
Ruscha, Robert Indiana and Roy Lichtenstein.
Pop art emerged as mass advertising and television became predominant
forces in American life, accompanied by a heightened consumer culture.
In 1962, Time reported that the average American was exposed
to about 1,600 advertisements per day. Pop artists drew from new and pervasive
sources of advertisements, billboards, comic books and mass produced items.
Their hard-edged and brightly colored works represented a radical shift
in American art from the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s who drew
upon their own subconscious for their expressive abstract or figurative
paintings.
Pop art was largely concerned with the way the individual processed all
of this information, its universality and its impact upon values. Andy
Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein pulled the imagery and even the techniques
at random, disassociating the image from its original meaning. Other artists,
like James Rosenquist or Tom Wesselman, selected, juxtaposed or manipulated
media images for more obvious social and political commentar.
Artists in the Exhibition
Artists represented in the exhibition include: Alfredo Manzo Cedeno, Roy
DeForest, James Dine, Vernon Fisher, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Roy
Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Andy
Warhol,
Tom Wesselmann and William Wiley.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
Organized by Heather Lineberry, Andy Warhol
and the Pop Aesthetic will be installed in the ASU Art Museum's
Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Duration
Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic (June
21 - Sep. 13, 2003) is open at the Nelson Fine Arts Center: Tuesday through
Saturday, 10 a.m - 5 p.m.
Support
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by Friends of
the ASU Art Museum.
ASU Art Museum exhibitions
Selected past exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum include:
Shared
Passion: Sara and David Lieberman Collection of Contemporary Ceramics
and Craft
Embracing Night:
New Ceramics by Farraday Newsome Sredl
Ties That
Bind: Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal
The Edward Jacobson
Collection of Turned-Wood Bowls
Fragile Monuments:
Paper Sculpture by Jyung Mee Park
Contemporary
Art Furniture: Sam Maloof, John Cederquist, Wendy Maruyama
Frogs
and Dogs: David Gilhooly and Roy De Forest
For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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