Talk
Introducing Eduardo Paolozzi RA’s ‘Moonstrips Empire News’
Curator’s Collection Talk
Tuesday 2 February 2016 3 - 3.30pm
Meet in the Royal Academy Library, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts
Free, no booking required.
RA Collections Assistant Curator Maria Alambritis introduces the work of Eduardo Paolozzi RA, perhaps best known for his mosaics at Tottenham Court Road station.
Sculptor and printmaker Eduardo Paolozzi was a leading proponent of Pop Art, which championed mass-media culture as superior to fine art. RA Collections Assistant Curator Maria Alambritis explore Paolozzi’s use of popular culture and his belief that art should reflect the everyday in this series of screenprints from 1967.