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The Reina Sofia Art Center is currently presenting several exhibitions of note. The Taschen Collection in its first public showing ever – includes works by Albert Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley and runs through January 10. Through January 17, “Tierras,” is a selection of terracotta sculptures by the acclaimed Spanish painter Tàpies and a show of 100 oil paintings by Andalusian artist Vázquez Díaz, is running until January 10. Go to: http://museoreinasofia.mcu.es
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These Limited Edition Pop art canvases run to just 150 editions each, and come on the highest grade artist's canvas. Each one is accompanied with a certificate signed by the artist. Commissions in this style are ... possible - details for such commissioned works are shown immediately below.
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Squaresville is a collection of pop art works using the artist’s own illustration archive as source material. The paintings in the exhibit are executed on identical twelve-inch square panels, calling to mind an imaginary collection of LP covers. This is no surprise, as both Michael Devine and Wayno are very active in the music world, and the two first met as participants in a panel discussion during The LP Show at the Andy Warhol Museum in 2002.
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The inaugural exhibition for the new building will be The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion -- Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, on view from the grand opening celebration through Oct. 28, 2007. The visually stimulating and intellectually challenging exhibition presents a large selection of pop art collected by Weisman and his wife, Billie Milam Weisman. Artists featured include Cristo, Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, James Rosenquist and Andy Warhol, amongst others.
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Pop art started in Britain in the 1950s and spread to America in the 1960's. Pop artists used popular culture in their works. They neither praised nor condemned what they saw, but wove the flood of popular culture into their art in much the same way popular culture flooded into people's subconscious. They often used media, advertising and comic book art styles to bring art closer to real life.
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In 1964, Robert Rauschenberg won the International Grand Prize in the XXXII Venice Biennale which became known as "the Biennale of Pop Art". It was the first time since the inception of the Biennale in 1895 that an American artist was awarded the prize. According to a series of critics, Pop Art marked the end of modernism and the beginning of the postmodern era.
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