Pauline Adamek
WORDS AND IDEAS – Lichtenstein and Los Angeles
Sunday, December 11, 2016
2:00 p.m.
This coming Sunday there will be a lecture presentation complementing the art exhibition Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.—currently on show at the Skirball Cultural Center in West Los Angeles.
Join William Hackman (art critic and author of Out of Sight: The Los Angeles Art Scene of the Sixties) and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp (KCRW art critic and author of Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s, as well as many other books, essays, and articles) in a conversation with exhibition curator Bethany Montagano about Roy Lichtenstein’s work in the context of the Los Angeles art scene. Moderated by art writer Jori Finkel.
For tickets and more information please go here – http://skirball.org/exhibitions/pop-for-people-roy-lichtenstein-la
About the Exhibition:
Renowned for his inventive interplay of line, dot, and color, Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) shaped a new form of fine art. Departing from the intellectual, nonfigurative style of Abstract Expressionism, Lichtenstein depicted everyday objects and drew inspiration from comic books, advertisements, and children’s books. By integrating such popular imagery into the realm of fine art, he invited viewers to recognize the world around them in his work.
Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A. explores how the artist, a vanguard of the Pop Art movement buoyed by a renaissance in printmaking, made fine art accessible to the American public in ways that had not been achieved before. The exhibition features prints from Lichtenstein’s Bull Profile and Surrealist series, as well as the iconic Sunrise and Shipboard Girl. Additional works on display range from political subject matter to paper plates, clothing, and shopping bags.
The exhibition also highlights Lichtenstein’s longtime collaboration with Stanley Grinstein and Sidney Felsen, cofounders of the prominent Los Angeles artists’ workshop Gemini G.E.L. Their groundbreaking printing house played a formative role in shaping the Los Angeles art scene and helped transform the city into a global center for printmaking and Pop Art.
Finally, to make Lichtenstein’s creative work truly accessible to all visitors, the Skirball will transform one of its galleries into an interactive space where visitors can step into Lichtenstein’s reimagination of Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles, brought to life in three-dimensional form.
WORDS AND IDEAS – Lichtenstein and Los Angeles
Related to This Exhibition
PUBLIC TOURS:
Public Tour—Pop for the People: Roy Lichtenstein in L.A.
Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday–Friday, 1:00 p.m., except November 24 and December 18 and 25
WORDS AND IDEAS – Lichtenstein and Los Angeles
Sunday, December 11, 2:00 p.m.
CLASSES:
Bedrooms and Bulls: Van Gogh, Picasso, Lichtenstein
Sunday, January 15, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., at the Norton Simon Museum
Sunday, January 22, 10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., at the Skirball
(2 sessions)
The Skirball Cultural Center is an educational institution in Los Angeles, California devoted to sustaining Jewish heritage and American democratic ideals. It has been open to the public since 1996.
