The 1960s: Soup Cans, Comic Books, Optical Illusions, and POPular Culture

Yesterday was the twelfth lecture in the 150 Years of Contemporary Art Lecture Series focusing on The 1960s: Soup Cans, Comic Books, Optical Illusions, and POPular Culture at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Andy Warhol - 100 Cans, 1962

"As American youths challenged their elders by protesting the Vietnam War and established cultural traditions, young artists confounded their elders’ traditions by making art from stuffed animals, bronze beer cans, electric chairs, dizzying spirals, Marilyn Monroe, stars and stripes, Mickey Mouse, George Washington and Simon Bolivar, plaster of Paris, altered pianos, tires and ladders, and more. Attendees will relive many aspects of the 1960s in the work of artists such as Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, and Roy Lichtenstein." -source

Next Week: Physical Fact/Fleeting Idea: Minimalism and Conceptual Art (11:15 am - 12:20 pm)