Richard Pettibone: art as inventive criticism

March 30, 2020 at 11:42 p.m.
Richard Pettibone. Photo: sothebys.com
Richard Pettibone. Photo: sothebys.com

 

Prominent figure of pop Art and post-pop, Richard Pettibone He is an artist who offers an inventive and humorous critique of current life.

An influential American artist, he was a predecessor of the appropriation art of the 80s; that practice of quoting, copying or deforming pre-existing objects or works of art defined his style.

The cans of Andy WarholThe works of Roy Lichtenstein, the bicycle wheel of Marcel Duchamp and the flags of Jasper Johns were part of his collection.

In the series of paintings CombineRichard Pettibone united the works of various artists into one.

Among his most significant exhibits is his massive four-decade retrospective of more than 200 works at the Laguna Museum of Art in California during 2005-2006.

Although it is also included in the 2007 exhibition "What is painting"? At the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Richard Pettibone's work has been featured at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, MoMA, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York, as well as MoCA in Los Angeles.