Larry Rivers | An American-European Dialogue : Ludwig Museum Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
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The American painter, musician and filmmaker Larry Rivers (1923-2002) is considered one of the most influential artists of the New York art scene in the 1950s-1970s. Already in the 1950s, he was one of the pioneers of pop art and influenced not only its most central figure Andy Warhol, but also a number of other artists in America as well as in Europe. Many of his own works from those years, however, reflect the immense influence of the important historical works of art and masters as well as some contemporaries have exercised on him. The way in which Larry Rivers dealt with painting, and later with assemblages, found objects and media culture, consistently shows that Larry Rivers used art primarily as a medium of reflection. For Rivers, the immediate quotation is significant, whereby the object and the manner of painting are as it were transparent and are present as components within their own new pictorial context. Sometimes painting and quoting are loosely connected, which makes the adaptation all the more obvious. He has often crossed traditional boundaries.
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