Modern and Contemporary British Prints, Drawings and Watercolours 1945-2000
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of Modern and Contemporary British Prints, Drawings and Watercolours from 1945 to 2000. This collection includes watercolours and drawings on paper and examples of printing techniques on paper including digital prints, screen-prints, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, woodcuts and engravings. The subjects of these objects vary from abstract compositions to depictions of people, objects or places. Key artists represented in these holdings include Peter Kennard, Joan Eardley, John Bellany, Bet Low and Nicola Hicks. This collection also includes works associated with British Pop Art including prints by Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Allen Jones and Joe Tilson, alongside work by Scottish artist Eduardo Paolozzi, who was a founder member of the British Pop art movement, and works by other important Pop artists, such as David Hockney and Jim Dine. There are also examples of works on paper by Bridget Riley, which share characteristics and influences with the Pop artists. Pop art is one of the major art movements of the 20th century. It emerged in Britain in the early 1950s, influenced by mass or ‘popular’ culture. Pop art represented a decisive return to representation and a reaction to previously dominant forms of ‘high’ art and abstraction, such as American Abstract Expressionism. Its development, in both the UK and USA, was part of a wider cultural phenomenon involving music and fashion as well as the visual arts. Although the end of the 1960s is usually cited as marking the end of the Pop art movement, many artists continued to work in a Pop art style. As we are based in Scotland there is a focus on work made by artists who were born, have trained, lived and worked here. For more information on this area of the collection please see Modern and Contemporary Scottish Prints, Drawings and Watercolours 1945 -2000.
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