1. Exhibition Review: TATE MODERN
For my gallery study I decided to visit the Tate Modern as they were having a ‘Pop art’
themed exhibition called ‘Pop life’. It possessed a collection of renowned artists and their
most memorable works. I was interested in the pop art movement since one of the artists I
included in my project was Wayne Thiebaud. I found that the point of ‘pop art’ was to
challenge tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual objects of
popular culture is connected with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material
from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for thought
provocation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes
that led to it. I though that the different pop art shows that the Tate Modern were showing
were all effective visually in whatever theme they were challenged through clever
composition, use of colour and shapes, lines and space.
One of the rooms in the Tate Modern was devoted to the highly renowned pop artist
Andy Warhol and it was one of his pieces in particular that I found most compelling and