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Morgan McHaley conducts a tour of Artists of the Northwest 2004/2005
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Docent Scripts
Art and Science of Collecting (MS Word) - Permanent Collection, September 20, 2005 – October 15, 2005 and March 21, 2006 – April 14, 2006
Daily News (MS Word) - Daily News, December 13, 2005 – March 17, 2006
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Pop Art Definition for Docent Background Information:
Adapted from "The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists"
Pop Art was an art style that originated in the 50’s and was pursued by American artists through the 60’s and 70’s. The subjects are often common objects (golf ball, hamburger, hot dog, soup can) of modern commercial industrial America, comic strips and mass media as well as parodies of famous paintings. Lichtenstein’s images are usually large scale, often painted in acrylic paint using limited, flat colors and hard, precise edges.
Lichtenstein was one of the leaders of the Pop Art movement which was based on America’s post-World War II consumerism and mass culture. The basic concept was that of mass popular urban culture as the common culture shared by all, irrespective of profession. Films, advertising, science fiction, pop music, etc. and American mass-produced consumer goods were taken as the materials of the new art and a new aesthetic of expendability was proposed. (Not unlike what the artists in this exhibition are doing with the mass medium of newspapers.)
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Studio workshop accompanying tour of Artists of the Northwest 2004/2005 |
Sonja Blomdahl, Artist Studio Visit, Docent Trip to Tocoma, Washington, October 2004
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