テート・ギャラリーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (テート・ギャラリーInstagram)「Get to know... Pauline Boty 💥 ‘All over the country young girls are starting, shouting and shaking, and if they terrify you, they mean to and they are beginning to impress the world.’ Pauline Boty was a founder of the British pop art movement and the only woman painter associated with the movement in Britain. Her paintings and collages often demonstrated a joy in self-assured femininity and female sexuality, expressing criticism of the ‘man’s world’ she lived in and drawing references from both high and low popular culture. Like Andy Warhol, she recycled publicity and press photographs of celebrities in her art. She often painted male idols—Elvis, French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and British writer Derek Marlowe (shown in this work)—as sex symbols. This painting is an example of how she employed contrasting styles in her compositions to critique imbalances of power between images of men and women. She was also an actor and the popular press picked up on her glamorous actress persona, often undermining her legitimacy as an artist by referring to her physical appearance. She became an ‘it’ girl of the 1960s London counterculture - exhibiting works alongside other pop artists, posing for popular magazines including Playboy and appearing in film, TV and radio shows. Her rebellious art, combined with her free-spirited lifestyle made Boty a herald of 1970s feminism and paved the way for artists like Judy Chicago and Helen Shapiro. Boty died in 1966 at the age of 28, a few months after the birth of her first child. She was diagnosed with cancer during the pregnancy, but refused chemotherapy because it might harm the foetus. Her work was largely forgotten after her death but was rediscovered in the 1990s, renewing interest in her important contribution to pop art.」7月15日 2時22分