ARTISTS
Transatlantic
Transatlantic will feature a carefully curated selection of editioned works on paper by some of the greatest 20th Century British and American artists. Included are renowned pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, painter and collagist Robert Motherwell (husband and influencer of colourist Helen Frankenthaler), colourist Frank Stella, Pop Artists Tom Wesselmann and Andy Warhol alongside Sol Lewitt, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Rauschenberg, with work by British Pop Artists Sir Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Although Pop Art is now seen as dominated by American titans such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Britain played a ground-breaking role in the movement.
Emerging in the mid-1950鈥瞫 but with roots that stretch back to Paolozzi鈥檚 ground breaking work in the 1940鈥瞫 and born out of the 鈥業ndependent Group鈥�, a number of London-based RCA artists including David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield, organised themselves to bring together the seminal 鈥榊oung Contemporaries鈥� show of 1961, the first appearance of British Pop Art.
The cultural exchange of artistic conceptualism and practice between Britain and America is entrenched throughout the twentieth century with many emerging movements inspiring each other, most notably Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The postwar art world saw lively interaction between British and American artists and sculptors, critics, curators, teachers, and institutions.
Transatlantic will feature a carefully curated selection of editioned works on paper by some of the greatest 20th Century British and American artists. Included are renowned pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, painter and collagist Robert Motherwell (husband and influencer of colourist Helen Frankenthaler), colourist Frank Stella, Pop Artists Tom Wesselmann and Andy Warhol alongside Sol Lewitt, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Rauschenberg, with work by British Pop Artists Sir Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Although Pop Art is now seen as dominated by American titans such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Britain played a ground-breaking role in the movement.
Emerging in the mid-1950鈥瞫 but with roots that stretch back to Paolozzi鈥檚 ground breaking work in the 1940鈥瞫 and born out of the 鈥業ndependent Group鈥�, a number of London-based RCA artists including David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield, organised themselves to bring together the seminal 鈥榊oung Contemporaries鈥� show of 1961, the first appearance of British Pop Art.
The cultural exchange of artistic conceptualism and practice between Britain and America is entrenched throughout the twentieth century with many emerging movements inspiring each other, most notably Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The postwar art world saw lively interaction between British and American artists and sculptors, critics, curators, teachers, and institutions.
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