Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present
From November 30th to December 10th, 2024.
On our Artsy page
Glenda Cinquegrana Art Consulting is proud to present an OVR dedicated to two artistic movements born and developed between the 1950s and 1960s: Pop and Op Art, an exclusive online exhibition on our Artsy page.
Pop Art emerged in the United States as a movement that both celebrates and critiques consumer society and image culture, emphasizing reproducibility and the use of recognizable symbols from everyday life.
Richard Hamilton, one of the movement’s founders, explores these aspects of commodified daily life through collages and assemblages, reflecting on the relationship between art, media, and advertising. His work Swingeing London 1967, a photolithograph on glossy paper, captures the lively and innovative cultural and musical scene of London.
Robert Indiana explores universal symbols as personal experiences, such as love and identity. By using stylized letters and numbers, he transforms the signs of the American Dream into elevated works of art, as seen in 0, from the original Numbers portfolio of 1968, representing visions of infinity.
Roy Lichtenstein, on the other hand, reproduces images and symbols drawn from comics, using a visual effect that emphasizes the process of production and seriality. His work Rosenthal Plate, created for the renowned German high porcelain company, employs the artist’s stylistic techniques, highlighting two-dimensionality and the repetition of lines to give the impression of a printed rather than painted image. This is a clear example of Pop artists incorporating everyday objects and icons.
As for Op Art, it originated in France, focusing on the use of optical illusions and dynamic visual effects to stimulate the viewer’s perception, creating the illusion of movement, vibration, or depth on two-dimensional surfaces.
This is exemplified by Getulio Alviani, an Italian artist known for his kinetic and programmed art, which plays with light and movement for an advanced sensory perception. This is visible in his work Untitled from 1962, printed as a silkscreen on MDF panel by Plura Editions, Milan.
Or in the case of Jesús Rafael Soto, a Venezuelan artist who focuses on the use of movement and optical perception to engage viewers in visual experiences that seem to “live” and move. He works mainly with metallic surfaces and geometric modulations, as seen in Permutation (1955-1978), generating continuous movement according to the angle of observation.
Both of these figures destabilize perceptual certainties, making the viewer an active participant in the artistic process.
