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Evening of cocktails and culture
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Date: 10 November 2004
Time: 18:00
The Friends of the Art Museum present an evening of cocktails and culture to raise funds for the Art Museum.
Barry Gibb, artist and lecturer renowned for his entertaining and informative talks on world art history, will be giving an illustrated presentation entitled "Pop and Prejudice"
Pop art arrived at the beginning of the 1960s to shock the art fraternity, the critics and the general populous alike with its easy-to-like, glamorised, commonplace subject matter, eg. Pin -up girls, Coca-cola, Elvis Presley and other media icons as well as comic-cut and pulp magazine heroes.
It reacted antithetically to the current avant-garde abstract expressionism and all the old art school prejudices about working from and using photographs and other second-hand imagery. The artists adopted the techniques of advertising art and its blatantly commercialized, sensual and sexy imagery. Pop art revealed to us the extent to which we view the world through media manipulated eyes.
Tickets for the early evening event are available at R45 per person (or R35 if you are a Friend) The price includes wine, snacks and cerebral entertainment. Tickets are limited and early reservation is advised.
For all bookings and enquiries please telephone Connie on 041 3671244 or 082 4720862. Tickets are also available at the Art Museum’s Arts Hall desk.
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