HABS Artists visit Tate Modern

On Sunday 4 October, all boys studying art made a trip to the Tate Modern to see ‘The World Goes Pop’ exhibition in order to gain additional ideas for their current projects.

This exhibition expanded the notion of pop art into a far wider geographical context, showing how different countries and cultures contributed to the movement during the 1960s and 70s.

The lack of the more celebrated pop artists like Lichtenstein and Warhol made this exhibition particularly engaging as we were forced to grapple with new artistic concepts which explored the reworking of familiar visual tropes from everyday life into images of subversion or overt protest.

Politics, the body, domestic revolution, consumption and public protest were all explored in eye-popping Technicolor and across many media, from canvas to car bonnets and pinball machines. The exhibition revealed how pop was never just a celebration of western consumer culture, but was often a subversive international language of protest – a language which is more relevant today than ever before.