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Viena´s Albertina Museum is showing the work of Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein, with the exhibition “Black & White 1961 – 1968,” on until the 15th of May.
Lichenstein´s work forms an undisputed part of the collective canon of vanguard artists – and his popularity and fame has never shown any sign of slowing down. His aesthetic was born of a love of comics – one of the biggest forms of cultural media – and thematically, his interest in the mundane of the day to day, and the trivial ways that lives are controlled by the mass media, publicity, and social stereotyping.
Lichtenstien continued the tradition of the modern vanguard artists, who considered the idea of the death of art, and the preservation of technical skill and aesthetics – until he arrived at the ultimate antithesis of “art”: popular, mainstream culture, which was free of any artistic elitism or puritanism. It was this that enabled Lichtenstein to free art of its constraints and bring a whole new definition to modern art.
In 1961, he started drawing in black and white – a fascination which would last until 1968, forming the series of innovative works on show at the Viena Albertina.
More information about the exhibition: http://www.albertina.at/jart/prj3/albertina/main.jart?rel=de&content-id=1202307119260&reserve-mode=active&ausstellungen_id=1287026237355
Heloise Battista
For anybody who loves Pop Art, the “Black & White” exhibition is a must-see. Don´t waste any more time – rent apartments in Vienna and find out about one of Roy Lichtenstein´s most creative periods.
Translated by: Poppy
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