Sarah in the Sixties

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have." -Andy Warhol

Among many other things, the 60s was one of the most monumental time periods with some famous names like Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenburg. What am I talking about? …ART!

These artists reinvented the way we see our everyday things in a whole new mass-produced way known as pop art. Most of the paintings from this time are prominent all around the world, like these:

Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' and 'Campbell's Soup Can'

 

Lichtenstein's 'Sunrise' and 'Gall' 

Oldenburg's 'Clothespin' and 'Apple Core'

   

"I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me." - Roy Lichtenstein 

Today, we can see famous 60s art popping up in galleries all over. As I recently found out in an article posted by the LA Times, the Norton Simon Museum is featuring "Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the Sixties.” The showcase will focus on a few abstractionists who were notable in the 60s: Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Ralph Humphrey and Kenneth Nowland to name a few. “Their work was minimalistic with little brush work resulting in a magnitude of color, stripes and geometric shapes.”

Other famous 60s works appearing in art museums today include Wayne Thiebaud at the Crocker Art Museum, the Weisman Museum hosted an exhibition of 60 works by Lichtenstein, “Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s” currently exhibited at the Telfair Museum of Art, and many more.