Pauline boty the only blonde in the world
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For This Week’s Piece Of The Week it seems only suitable that, like the Tate Modern, we go Pop.
You may or may not be aware, but the Tate Modern currently has a Pop Art exhibition going on, that opened last week, but with a twist. When Pop Art is mentioned, it’s likely that you’ll think Andy Warhol, Peter Blake and Roy Lichtenstein, but The Tate is aiming to change this.
It’s pretty safe to assume that most of us associate with Pop Art as an American movement, sometimes we remember it started in Britain, yet one thing we don’t associate Pop Art with is it being a global movement. The World Goes Pop explores a range of Pop Art from around the world.
For this week’s Piece Of The Week we’re staying closer to home in Britain, with a work by an often overlooked Pop Artist – The Only Blonde In The World by Pauline Boty
We all recognise Andy Warhol’s Monroe silkscreens that are almost synonymous with Pop Art alongside those soup cans. But, at around the same time, Pauline Boty was creating her own Monroe painting – The Only Blonde In The World is a different take on Warhol’s Monroes. Boty, much like Monroe was
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Format: Hardback
Size: 290 × 250 mm (113⁄8 × 97⁄8 in)
Pages: 34
Discover Pauline Boty, The Only Blonde in the World, 1963
Along with her peers David Hockney and Peter Blake, Pauline Boty spearheaded a second wave of British Pop, capturing the rebellious energy of the Swinging Sixties through new techniques such as collage.
She brought a female perspective to the fledgling movement and addressed contemporary issues, including gender, identity and sexuality in her bold, vibrant Pop pieces.
This striking painting shows Marilyn Monroe — the ultimate sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s — pinned between two fields of abstract forms. Dare you say your instinctive, first response?
Largely forgotten in the decades after her death (Boty died of cancer, aged only 28), her work is now enjoying an uptick in interest. It’s gratifying that Britain’s first female Pop artist is finally getting the widespread recognition she deserves.
I am really pleased to see that there is a programme on BBC4 tonight called Pauline Boty, I am the 60s. I am glad that she is finally getting the recognition she deserves. To celebrate the occasion I thought I would dust off this piece I wrote about Pauline back in 2019..............................................................................A couple of days ago when I was researching a piece about Adrian Mitchell I read that he and his wife had adopted a child who was the daughter of their friends the artist Pauline Boty and Clive Goodwin. This aroused my curiosity because I hadn’t heard of Pauline Boty before, so I looked for info about her. What I found was quite fascinating for me because I have always been interested in people who had a brief flirtation with fame and then disappeared into obscurity, or made an important contribution to the arts and have been unfairly overlooked. Pauline was one of the founders of the British Pop Art movement along with the likes of David Hockney and Peter Blake who both went on to be world famous, but Pauline has been largely forgotten. Another thing I have noticed about Pauline is that