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Neo pop
John Buckley
"Pop" was the term coined by the English art critic, Lawrence Alloway in 1956 to describe the work of a new generation of British and American artists who reacted to the then entrenched position of Abstract Expressionism by creating an art which was a response to the post-war phenomenon of the new, rampant consumer environment. Artists like Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Claes Oldenburg, took the mundane stuff of everyday living - Television, packaging, Magazine ads, comics, billboards and the like and elevated it to the status of High Art.
We live now at a time when most of the major Art movements of the latter part of the 20th C, including "Pop", are being revisited, re-examined and re-cycled by new generations of younger artists who have been weaned on a diet of irony, quotation and post-modern-theory.
Neo-Pop gathers together the work of a number of these new-generation artists and allows us to see how their current practice comments upon and further extends the "Pop" genre into the first decade of the 2Ist C.
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Marcel Cousins appears courtesy of Helen Gory Gallerie
Kate Just appears courtesy of Nellie Castan Gallery
Callum Morton appears courtesy of Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
Scott Redford appears courtesy of Gould Galleries
David Wadelton appears courtesy of Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
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