Image series 49 / 2014: Pop Art Food

Images and Representations

30 November 2014 | By: Bettina Pfleging

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With Pop Art in the 1960s came “everyday” to art. Many of the artists from this period find some of their designs in consumer or commercial objects and thus also in food. They present the topic of food, known since the Renaissance, in a new way. For example, they oversize food by inflation, or highlight their color. Surely this is only a part of popular culture, but the theme is ideal for the launch of our advent calendar around culinary delights and fancy foods in art and culture.
Advent Calendar 2014 on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ und Instagram.

The exhibition features with some 150 major works of the leading protagonists of this art movement the whole range of pop art. In addition, it also provides a historical view into the private collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig.

LUDWIG GOES POP
October 2, 2014 – January 11, 2015, Museum Ludwig, Köln

01

Erró. Foodscape, Ausschnitt, 1964; Virtuelle Diathek, Universität Hamburg, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar

02

Wayne Thiebaud. Lunch, Ausschnitt, 1964, Öl auf Leinwand, 91,5 × 152,5 cm, Stanford; Virtuelle Diathek, Universität Hamburg, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar

03

Andy Warhol. Cambell Soup, Ausschnitt, Siebdruck; EasyDB, Universität Bern, Institut für Kunstgeschichte

04

Jasper Johns. Painted Brone (Ale Cans), Ausschnitt, 1960, Bronze bemalt, 20,3 × 12,1 cm, Köln; Virtuelle Diathek, Universität Hamburg, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar

05

Tom Wesselmann. Stillleben Nr. 45, Ausschnitt, 1962, 65 × 85 cm, New York; Diathek online, Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Kunstgeschichte

06

Claes Oldenburg. Eiscreme-Sandwich, Ausschnitt, 1961, Musselin in Gips auf Drahtgestell, 55,9 × 55,9 × 17,8 cm, New York; Diathek der Arbeitsstelle für christliche Bildtheorie, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

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James Rosenquist. I Love you with my Ford, Ausschnitt, 1961, 210 × 237,5 cm, Stockholm; Imago, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

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Roy Lichtenstein. Bananas, Ausschnitt; EasyDB, Universität Bern, Institut für Kunstgeschichte