New York City Art Scene 1960s, Part 2 of 4

Bleecker Street, 1967. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

[Virtual tour] Following a period of embracing very subjective, expressionist abstraction, artists during the 1960s turned their attention back on their environment, especially the energy of the city, embracing popular culture, mass media, ordinary life, non-sophisticated materials and novel art making processes inspired by modern life.

Part 2 – Copy – print – multiply
While AbEx artists focused on individual expression and their own unique physical mark-making, Pop artists in the 60s often sourced imagery from their environment, from advertisement, newsprint, graphic novels and comics, as well as fine art prints as a commodity. Language became a source material as well, since its presence became ubiquitous, like on billboards and in magazines. Appropriation, printing methods, multiplications and works in series – these new techniques referenced modern media and also wanted to make fine art more affordable for the average consumer.

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