A new exhibition in Paris celebrates the Pop Art movement and in particular American artist Tom Wesselmann, one of its pioneers. Less well known in Europe than Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein, he worked with many of the same themes of advertising, collages, comic strips and mass media. As well as 150 of his work, there are 75 by other pop artists, including contemporary ones such as Jeff Koons and Ai Weiwei.
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinatti, Ohio, in 1931. He studied art after serving in the Korean War. He spent all of his career in New York and exhibited with artists like Lichtenstein and Warhol. He experimented with collage and produced a series of still lifes using everyday objects and the series "Great American Nudes".

From the late 1960s, Wesselmann experimented with shaped canvases, providing fragmentary glimpses of his subject, such as this self-portrait.

The exhibition presents 150 of Wesselmann's works alongside 70 works by 35 other artists within the field of Pop Art, from the 1950s to the present day. Including Roy Lichtenstein's comic-strip-inspired paintings.

Contemporary works by Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei continue Pop art's fascination with consumer and everyday objects. Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury took a car, often considered a male obsession in advertising and and popular culture, crushed it and "feminised" it with a coat of pink nail polish.

Pop Forever, Tom Wesselmann &...
Till 24 February 2025
Fondation Louis Vuitton Paris
There is a a downloadable guide in English that could be useful for class visits.
Copyright(s) :
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #60, 1973
Huile sur toiles mises en forme / Oil on shaped canvases, 310.5 x 845.8 x 219.7 cm
The Estate of Tom Wesselmann, New York
Tom Wesselmann, Still Life #15, 1962
Technique mixte et collage sur panneau /Mixed media and collage on board, 214,6 x 183,5 cm
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Gift of Mrs. Olga N. Sheldon, U-3282.1975
Tom Wesselmann, Self Portrait While Drawing, 1983
Huile sur toile façonnée / Oil on shaped canvas, 188 x 221 cm
The Estate of Tom Wesselmann, New York
Roy Lichtenstein, Thinking of Him, 1963
Magna sur toile / Magna on canvas, 172,7 x 174,6 cm
Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935
Sylvie Fleury, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Givenchy), 2009
Fiat écrasée, vernis à ongles rose (Givenchy) / Crushed Fiat, pink nail polish (Givenchy), 55,9 x 153,9 x 365 cm
Collection of Larry Warsh
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