German, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Wernigerode.
Painter.
Pop Art.
Otmar Alt trained in Berlin, where he lived, exhibiting since 1965 in private German galleries. He integrated well with his generation. His paintings have very jagged forms and clear colours. He might have been distantly compared with Miró, if he had not been able to adapt this style to the cheerful aesthetics of Pop Art....
American, 20th century, female.
Born 1929, in New York.
Painter, draughtswoman. Artists’ books.
Pop Art, Identity Art (Feminist Art).
Ida Applebroog studied at the New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lived briefly in California, teaching at the University of California, San Diego, and exhibiting her sculptures locally (as Ida Horowitz). After moving to New York in ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1930.
Painter.
Pop Art.
Allan d'Arcangelo studied at the University of Buffalo until 1953. In 1956 he went to New York and lived in Mexico from 1958 to 1959. Since 1956 he has appeared in the major collective shows of Pop Art - the art of salvaging real objects from everyday life, involving ordinary urban settings, everyday objects, rubbish, scrap, cartoons and their heroes. Since ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 24 September 1930, in Benicia (California); died 2 November 1992, in Benicia.
Ceramicist, sculptor, painter, printmaker, draughtsman. Figures.
Pop Art, Funk Art.
Robert Arneson studied at the College of Marin Kentfield, California (1949-1951), California College of Arts and Crafts (...
Danish, 20th century, male.
Born 1941, in Copenhagen.
Painter.
Pop Art, Minimal Art.
Self-taught, Per Arnoldi was influenced by the imagery of Pop Art. Arnoldi presents objects from the circus such as sticks, hats and balls with a mixture of humour, irony and a calculated naivety. He seems to have veered towards Minimalist austerity in very large formats involving vast monochrome areas separated by verticals in bright colours. He first exhibited in Munich (...
Canadian First Nations (We Wai Kai/Cape Mudge Band), 21st century, male.
Born 1975, in Richmond (British Columbia).
Painter, sculptor, printmaker, photographer.
The aesthetic of Sonny Assu (Liǥwilda’x̱w/Laich-kwil-tach) is a confluence of Northwest Coast formline motifs and popular Western culture. He is well versed in the traditional Kwakwaka’wakw arts of drum, blanket and basket making and uses these as the starting place of many of his artworks. Drawing on a pop sensibility, mass-media culture is used as a conduit to explore and expose these Kwakwaka’wakw traditions as well as the artist’s own mixed heritage. By bringing these seemingly desperate elements together, Assu’s works challenge popular notions of authenticity regarding Indigenous people and their art. Moreover, while the works may appear whimsical at first glance, they offer a sharp critique of Western society’s culture of consumption as it relates to colonisation, both historical and ongoing, in North America....
Hungarian, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1959.
Born 20 February 1931, in Budapest; died 22 March 1987, in Paris.
Painter, engraver.
Pop Art, Nova Figurace (New Figuration).
Atila first studied architecture in Paris, then in Stuttgart, before working with the painter Willy Baumeister. He moved definitively to Paris in ...
Belgian, 20th century, female.
Born 16 August 1935, in Namur, Belgium; died 10 September 1972, in Ghent, Belgium.
Painter, mixed media artist, performance artist (happenings).
Pop Art.
Evelyne Axell was a Belgian painter whose style was aligned with the Pop Art movement. Her short artistic career, between 1964 and 1972, was preceded by a successful career as an actress. Her paintings were more politicised than those of her male counterparts, focusing on female sexual liberation as well as the objectification of the male gaze.
Wishing to separate her own career from that of her husband, the Belgian film and TV director Jean Antoine, Axell enlisted the Surrealist painter Rene Magritte to mentor her practice. In 1964, Axell’s husband directed a documentary about the British Pop Art movement that gave the young artist the opportunity to mingle with Allen Jones, Peter Phillips, Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield, and Joe Tilson. During that time, Axell decided to disassociate herself from her gender by using the androgynous name Axell professionally....
German, 20th century, male.
Born c. 1935.
Painter, sculptor.
Groups: Spur, Geflecht.
Bachmayer was active with the
French, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Bordeaux.
Painter.
Balanci's work is influenced by abstract and Pop art, and is characterised by thick textures of cement and an amalgam of paper on to which he draws vague outlines. He has exhibited in Paris at the Salon de Mai and the Salon des Grands et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui since ...
British, 20th century, male.
Born 1940, in Luton.
Sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker.
Pop Art.
Clive Barker was associated with the Pop Art Movement in the early 1960s. His works from the years 1966 to 1969 included the use of facsimiles of everyday objects which he reproduced in brass, copper and bronze, either individually or in combinations, as, for example, ...
Portuguese, 20th century, male.
Born 1943, in Coimbra.
Painter.
Eduardo Batarda was influenced by the imagery of Pop Art and turned towards a more complex, if often self-reverential, type of painting, in which he depicted the contemporary world. He showed his work in solo exhibitions. In ...
German, 20th century, female.
Born 1934, in Frankfurt am Main.
Painter, installation artist.
Bauermeister lives and works in Cologne. In 1961, her work was featured in a group exhibition alongside American Pop artists Jaspar Johns and Robert Rauschenberg at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; all three artists were unknown at that time. In ...
American, 20th century, male.
Born 1930, in Chikasha (Oklahoma).
Engraver.
Denis Beall exhibited at the Paris Biennale of 1963. Although he drew inspiration from Nouvelle Figuration and Pop Art, his choice of subject matter nevertheless shows him to be close to a certain kind of Surrealism. He is represented in museums in London (Victoria and Albert Museum), Oakland and San Francisco....
Canadian, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1957, in Toronto (Ontario).
Sculptor.
Neo-Conceptual Art, Appropriation Art.
Alan Belcher lives and works in Toronto and New York. In the Pop Art tradition, Belcher uses advertising images, meaningfully exploiting their powers of enticement. His work consists of glossy colour photographs that are usually pinned, screwed, nailed or wrapped around various objects made of Plexiglas, metal or wood. By using the seductive colours of publicity photographs, and their perfect finish, Belcher's sculpture works on two levels. On one, he denounces marketing's manipulative wiles; on the other, he creates works of art that are almost Minimalist in their simplicity of form. Since ...
20th century, male.
Painter.
Bernardini took part in an exhibition organised in 1969 by the 'Distances' group and coordinated by Pierre Gaudibert at the museum of modern art in Paris. His work draws on Pop Art and is centred on day-to-day and mundane aspects of contemporary life....
Dutch, 20th century, male.
Born 1921, in The Hague.
Painter.
Hermanus Berserik was part of the 'Nouveau Réalisme' movement that emerged in the 1960s which, contrary to a widespread tendency in recent forms of realism, rejected any form of political or social engagement. In his paintings Berserik aims to establish a report that is intended to be neutral, which he transgresses with irony, a detailed inventory of every item that constitutes his environment, which is everyone's environment. He thereby places a more or less subtle emphasis on the elements that indicate the so-called needs that are imposed by consumer society, fossilised into manias in individuals - the 'things' ('Les Choses') that are condemned by Georges Pérec in his first book of this title....
Portuguese, 20th century, male.
Active in France from 1958.
Born 1935, in Alhandra, near Lisbon.
Painter, sculptor, screen printer. Figure compositions, interiors, landscapes with figures.
Pop Art, Nouvelle Figuration, Figuration Narrative.
René Bertholo was a graduate of the school of decorative art in Lisbon. He spent some time in Munich in ...
American, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1959, in Barbados.
Sculptor, installation artist.
Neo-Conceptual Art (Neo-Geo), Appropriation Art, Neo-Pop Art.
Ashley Bickerton lives and works in Los Angeles. He arrived on the American art scene in the mid-1980s. With Peter Halley, Jeff Koons and Meyer Vaisman, Bickerton, he belongs to the group of artists known as the ...
Swedish, 20th – 21st century, male.
Born 1957, in Stockholm.
Painter (mixed media).
Ernst Billgren studied at the Valand art academy (1982-1987). HIs paintings are presented with a flourish not dissimilar to Pop Art practices, the complexity of which adds a theatrical, distancing dimension. He has had many solo exhibitions in Sweden, and has participated in collective exhibitions in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Brasil and Mexico....
