Pop Culture & Icons: The Great Electric Mix - curated by Rose Boutboul

A curation by Rose Boutboul, Independent Curator at - Imagine a space where Velázquez's Las Meninas trade their austerity for neon yellow dresses and where Donald Duck becomes the centerpiece of a frenetic urban collage. Welcome to this selection, a veritable explosion of energy that shakes up the codes of art history, merging them with advertising aesthetics and comics. Here, the sacred and the profane become one: a figure of Jesus radiates against a background of hypnotic lines, while the Statue of Liberty reinvents itself under wild paint splatters. The eye is overwhelmed by the sheer abundance of color saturation. One glimpses the melancholic gaze of a Marilyn Monroe deconstructed by splashes of vibrant color, then is instantly transported to the polished, graphic world of 1960s Pop Art, with female faces rendered in dot patterns reminiscent of Lichtenstein. The contrast is striking between the precise lines of a Snoopy calligraphed with "Wow" and the exuberance of a bursting pomegranate, its seeds resembling hot air balloons floating across an azure sky.

15 Artworks

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