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Almudí Palace hosts, from today until 24 May, an exhibition to discover the Pop Art movement The exhibition, entitled 'XX artists of the New Figuration', includes a work by the leading exponent of this artistic movement, Andy Warhol, making it the first time you can see his work in a public hall.
The exhibition also includes works from 19 other leading artists of the Pop Art such as Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, John Genovese, Gudmundur Erro, Andrew Sillero, Luis Gordillo, Valerio Adami, Mel Ramos, Allen Jones, Eduardo Arroyo, Eduardo Úrculo, Ernesto Tatafiore , Equipo Crónica, Equipo Realidad Carlos Pazos, Ciuco Gutiérrez, Pablo Milicua, Lidó Rico and Eduardo Lozano.
The works shown are as paintings, sculptures and design objects, completing the sample with some of the most interesting artists who compose it.
The exhibition, whose curator is Marisa Oropesa, includes works by public and private collections.
The Pop Art movement or the New Figuration born in the mid 50's, probably due to saturation of abstract painting and the new concern posed by the interaction between real and painted objects.
It tries to find simple and recognizable images to elevate the status of art.
The work became another object of the American dream.
The artists bet on the representation of objects in everyday conformist world of consumption and advertising.
United States was the first proponent of this movement that swept Europe.
Spain, although belatedly, has an important group of artists who belong to Pop Art and New Figuration, as the Chronicle group.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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