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The Eclectic Eye - Pop and Illusion

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The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, US, is hosting now an impressive exhibition with works from one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art, that of Frederick R. Weisman. He began collecting in the 1950's, together with his wife, buying European and American art, and slowly built one of the richest collections in the US, envied and praised by specialists. Fascinated especially by American 20th century art, Weisman managed to acquire several works by important artists of that time, such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore among others. A philantropist as well as a collector, in the 1980's he established the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, which still supports the artists through various grants, programs, exhibitions. The show "The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion" is a major one, reuniting some of the best examples of Pop Art from the Weisman Collection, ranging from the 1960's to the 1990's, many of these having rarely been seen before.


 


The first artworks that can be considered as Pop Art emerged in the American society of the 1950's, marking a radical turmoil and beneficiating to a large degree of the increasing influence of massmedia of advertising industry. Even if nowadays the iconic image and symbol of this movement is still Andy Warhol, he wasn't the only one. The exhibition at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center focuses on the use of illusion in Pop Art and it's evolution through centuries.


 


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2007-08-14

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