The Liverpool Tate has showcased an exhibition focusing on the explosion of 'pop style' that came about in the seventies. It has been on for a few months and closes today but i visited the exhibition last week and found it very interesting to see the development of the style.
The exhibition was all about glamour, exaggeration, androgyny and a dose of the erotic, with the style being represented through art, film, photography and sculpture. Everything was about being 'over-the-top' and creating a great impact, i found that a lot of the exhibition was about the crossover of males and females, which was portrayed through males transforming themselves with the use of make-up.
I enjoyed the exhibition and it was interesting to learn about fashion and beauty trends from that era.
I also visited another exhibition, similar in theme to this one; The Art Of Pop Video at FACT (Foundation For Art & Creative Technology), which is a media arts centre also in Liverpool.
The exhibition was very simple in concept; several rooms with televisions mounted on walls playing music videos, each fitting into a theme showing the development of the pop video. Significant music videos from past years were included as well as the politically influenced and the amateur which were boosted by the introduction of YouTube. A very simple concept that is quite effective, this exhibition runs until May 26th and is free entry; it was nice to see pop videos that are regarded highly all in one place.
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