The
Norton Simon Museum has had their exhibit,
Duchamp to Pop since March and it will be at the Museum until August 29, 2016. The websites states, "For many of the 20th century’s greatest practitioners, the work of a singular artist exercised a potent influence—that artist is Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968). Duchamp to Pop draws from the Norton Simon Museum’s collection and rich archives of two seminal exhibitions in the early 1960s to illustrate Duchamp’s sway over Pop Art and its artists, especially Andy Warhol, Jim Dine and others."
To paraphrase, Duchamp’s definition of the
everyday object as art, his wit and irony established him as
the forefather of conceptual art. He was quintessential to the
Pop Art movement, a moniker derived from the term “popular culture.”
The Norton Simon adds, "From
the mid-1950s forward, Pop Art emerged as a response to the post-war
acceleration of production and consumerism, and it became the
predominant art movement of the 1960s. An inundation of media imagery
and advertising led artists to reflect on the world as it was being
marketed to them. At first glance, Pop Art can be seen as the antithesis
of conceptual art, but below its slick surface, it is a thoughtful,
occasionally flippant, critique of commerce and advertising. The use and
depiction of everyday items allowed Pop artists to challenge the nature
of marketing, explore identity representation and counter the
heavy-handed emotional intensity of previous generations, such as the
Abstract Expressionists."
Everyone should checkout this exhibition, which includes artwork from: Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode.
