The Middle Peninsula Fine Arts Association of Gloucester presents
Pop Art, Blurring Boundaries
Speaker: Trent Nicholas from the VMFA
Thursday, March 7
7:15 pm - 8:15 pm
The Middle Peninsula Fine Arts Association of Gloucester, a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts community partner, announces its program for Thursday, March 7, 2024: Pop Art, Blurring Boundaries. The speaker is Trent Nicholas from VMFA.
The program will be at Arts on Main, 6580 Main Street. The free to the public presentation starts at 7:15 PM.
Pop Art brought mass consumerist culture into museums and galleries in the early 1960s radically changing the course of art by eliminating the boundary between “high” culture and everyday life. Part of what paved the way was that it was the first major art movement with a sense of humor. This talk, using images of painting and film, surveys the American Pop Art scene and its leading figure Andy Warhol who invented his own Hollywood-style empire including “superstars” and his own celebrity status.
This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund.
