Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest of Peru concentrates on the pomp and circumstance traditional to movie spectaculars, it is a lot of cornball...
...Pop never was as radical as it has been made out to be. For one thing, it is more readily accessible to the casual viewer's sensibility than the austere abstraction of, say, a Barnett Newman or an Ad Reinhardt. Its images, in fact, depend in part on instant recognition. Many of its subjects are the eternal themes of art-scrubbed, rubbed, varnished, stuffed and updated. Susannah and the Elders, an exercise in biblical voyeurism that has been painted by Tintoretto, Rubens and Rembrandt, becomes in Tom Wesselmann's rendition a pink plastic Great American Nude...
...Harold Lloyd teetering on the edge of a cliff, or Charlie Chaplin falling into a machine. The pictures visually crowd the spectator, jostle and shout at him. All the vernacular of commercialism-billboards, neon signs, girlie magazines, comic books-provides the imagery. By using such familiar props, the Pop artists are commenting on the new urban landscape of supermarkets and motel rooms, of roadsides and TV commercials, a civilization in which the old-fashioned nature celebrated by old-fashioned artists has become merely a fleeting view from the window of a car, train, plane or apartment house. Thus most Pop...
...movement, Pop is perhaps ebbing. But as its shock value wears off, it is easier to make judgments. The thin, acrid sensibility of Andy Warhol remains naggingly insistent, an idiosyncratic talent that can be derided but not dismissed. Lichtenstein's works are admired for their sharp elegance, Rosenquist's for their painterly quality, Jim Dine's for their intimacy. But each seems to have settled into the styles established by his own success. The one among them who seems to have continuously moved into progressively new and different areas, blithely leaving his successes behind him, is Claes...
...Pavilion at the World's Fair at Osaka next year. A motor inside will cause the ice bag to tilt, inflate, undulate and deflate on a continuous cycle. As an object, it is funny, anthropomorphic and intellectual all at once. It qualifies as kinetic or soft or Pop sculpture...