ANOTHER LOOK AT POP ART...
After that rather bleak experience at the Maison Rouge, I needed to have something more colourful to look at. The next exhibition on my rather long list was « Pop Art - Icons that matter » - the Whitney Museum of American Art This is the Moma installation.. Collection. I’m pretty sure that it was with Laurent and Jerome that I went to see the Roy Lichtenstein retrospective many years ago. What ever it was, Pop Art certainly didn't really stimulate my curiosity. So why would I go along to this event? Simple, to see why I didn’t really like it.
All the major Icons were there. 60 + paintings. Fortunately the Maillol Museum can hang such large works successfully. They have space even if the crowd was in place when I got there. The exhibition focuses on figures such as Jasper John (the American flag that we all know too well), Robert Rauschenberg (for me his name always conjures up huge collage and I have never really liked them), Andy Warhol ( Marilyn Monroe and Cambell T