『アメリカン・ポップ・アート展』2013.8.7(水)〜10.21(月)/国立新美術館
アンディ・ウォーホルの最高傑作《200個のキャンベル缶》、日本初上陸!The John and Kimiko Powers Collection includes one of Andy Warhol's most important paintings, 200 Campbell's Soup Cans, as well as representative works by American Pop Art icons Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann, and by their precursors Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. There has, however, never been an opportunity to exhibit the entire Pop Art collection, even on its home ground in the United States.
It is generally agreed that American Pop Art is rooted in and is a response to elements of our contemporary culture, from the 1960s to the present, that go beyond the boundaries of art. In Japan, there have been only very few exhibitions introducing prime examples of 1960s Pop Art. The American Pop Art exhibition project originates in the deep desire on the part of Japanese organaizers, along with Kimiko Powers, to introduce the appeal of Pop Art to Japan. The exhibition presents the long awaited opportunity to experience these exciting works by Andy Warhol and other major figures of Pop Art.The first ever comprehensive exhibition of the John and Kimiko Powers American Pop Art Collection
A vision of the friendship between the Pop artists and a patron who recognized the importance of their work at a very early stage
200 representative works, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and multiples by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Wesselmann, Rauschenberg, Johns and other major Pop artists active in the 1960sIn the immediate post-war period, the United States was the quintessential consumer society. With the flood of advertising and the images that went along with the spread of television and radio, Coca Cola and the hamburger, and other such products became synonymous throughout the world with the United States. Pop artists tried to represent their own experiences of the surrounding society by using the techniques of mass media such as newspapers, comic strips, and advertising, and by depicting the images and incorporating the actual products of mass production. In contrast to the previous generation of artists, the Abstract Expressionists who conceived of the artist as 'hero' and the artwork as a noble or esoteric gesture, the Pop artists connected their art with low culture. They represented 'copies' of mundane objects from everyday life, and appeared to be anonymous as creators.
From around the late 1950s, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns had already been producing works incorporating common objects from everyday life, affixing these to the canvas. Rauschenberg and Johns are referred to as forerunners of American Pop Art that had its groundbreaking debut in the 1962 "The New Realists" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenguist, and Tom Wesselmann are recognized as the leading artists of the movement.