The American dream. From Pop to Today

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Vote McGovern by Andy Warhol (1972). Image courtesy of CaixaForum.

Graphic art in North America, which emerged in 1960, provides a fresh and diverse vision of artists facing the different periods of profound social and political changes that have been and continue to be experienced in the United States.

With the emergence of a young generation of North American artists in the sixties willing to explore the expressive potential of printmaking, graphic art went from being a marginal technique to being at the very center of interest and production of fine arts, becoming not only a critical art form but also a way to address social and political issues.

Graphic art provides a fresh and diverse perspective on how artists viewed this period of profound change in America: civil rights, the Cold War, the space race, the Vietnam war, rock music and counterculture, feminist movements and the questioning of the American dream due to the growing inequality between rich and poor. The American dream. From Pop to Today offers an overview of the development of graphic art in the United States from 1960 to the present day, in which special attention is paid to key figures in its history, such as Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibition, with works mainly from the British Museum's collection, includes pieces from all the artistic trends that have taken place over the years and emphasizes how artists were encouraged to create graphic work of an ambition, scale and unprecedented boldness.

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