‘Pop Goes the Portrait: Breaking and Remaking the Rules of the Portrait’ With MAS
Madison Art Society will host a Zoom art lecture, “Pop Goes the Portrait: Breaking and Remaking the Rules of the Portrait,” presented by Bob Potter on Wednesday, March 6 at 11 a.m.
The 1960s marked a radical turning point in American artistic expression in films, music, and art created against a backdrop of social turmoil and change. Abandoning Abstract Expressionism, which had dominated American modern art after World War II, painters like Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, and Alice Neal, along with photographer Cindy Sherman would enthusiastically return to figurative art and celebrate pop culture and themselves in bold depictions of the human form and spirit.
In a wide range of visual images, profiles of the artists, and historical context, this lecture will explore the artists, the people they painted, and the changing historical events and artistic movements that influenced society and the art of portraiture during this pivotal period in American art.
Potter is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He helped create an innovative art therapy program for Save The Children, launched a professional development program for art students at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, and is a docent at the Yale Center for British Art. He and his wife Jeanne, who is a master watercolor artist and teacher, live in Old Lyme.
RSVP to Marianne@RTDTECH.com by noon on Monday, March 4. This lecture is open to the public. Those who RSVP will receive the Zoom link on the day before the lecture.