Pop Art at Thyssen Museum to color up this summer in Madrid

The great gallery Thyssen-Bornemisza presents Pop Art Myths, the first exhibition in Madrid since that one in 1992 at Reina Sofia museum. More than 60 works from this artistic movement that show the public the new visión of pop art in 21st century.

Paloma Alarcó, Head of Modern Painting at the Thyssen-Bornemisza, explains that pop art turned into art every single thing around, breaking with the rules of the most elitist art from the avant garde and the abstract expressionist painters.

What pop art do, as we said, is to turn everything in an artistic matter, fast moving consumer goods, like the famous can of Campbell’s soup, or big myths like Marilyn and Marlon Brando that take part of the landscape from now on.

It’s true that this explosion of colors, this ingenious and funny artistic trend, is reinforced because of the “image revolution” ruling in this age throughout photography, cinema, televisión and advertising, and this is probably, one of the main causes why pop art connects immediately with the public.

The central axis in the exhibition is in Paloma Alarcó own words “the idea is that pop art looks to tradition and recovers the artistic genres: still lives, landscapes, historic painting…”

The exhibited works conform a pop art itinerary that goes from the british creations, followed by the important chapter of american pop art and the expansion through europe to close out.

The aim of this exhibition is to show that the mythical images from artists such as Warhol, Rauschenberg, Wesselmann, Lichtenstein, Hockney, Hamilton or Equipo Crónica, among others, “conceal an ironic and innovative code of perception of reality and one that still prevails in contemporary art today”