David Hockney and British Pop Art

The exhibition through out works on papers and photo, provides an insight into the work of fifteen artists who were acti-ve and influential in Great Britain during this period, and examines the network of re-lationships they established and the individual contributions they each made to the language of pop. The exhibition features one of the artists who belonged to the younger generation of the movement, known as the RCA (Royal College of Art, London), who emigrated to the United States and was reluctant to accept the label of Pop artist, David Hockney. Others also took part in the American adventure, such as Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield, Alan Aldridge and Allen Jones, and only R.B. Kitaj took the opposite route, be-cause he was born in Charing Falls (Ohio) and settled in England, where he gave his name to what we know today as “The London School”. Part of the exhibition Is also the music and fashion set that was very reactive at that historic moment, It was a youthful, emerging culture that immediately won over the public of its generation, and drew in the new elites, who thus had access to collecting, in keeping with the aspirational American “way of life”.