Allen Jones is one of the great legends of the history of pop art. Along with David Hockney, Ronald B. Kitaj, Richard Hamilton and so forth, Jones founded British pop art, a movement which like its American counterpart allowed the everyday world of the consumer society to take its place in the exalted temple of art. In the mid-sixties we see the first appearances of such fetish motifs as high-heels, latex clothing and slender female legs. Ever since, Allen Jones has resourced his painting, sculpture and graphic works through sex and eroticism. Jones defined the female body and his sexually loaded fragments and fetishes as the crowning glory of pop art, interpreted in a descriptively realist manner of formulation: Jones eschews schematic flatness of the seductive figures as in Lichtenstein or Wesselmann, but emphasises a physical, indeed in part haptic presence.

Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928. In 1945 he entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) where he majored in pictorial design. Upon graduation, Warhol moved to New York where he found steady work as a commercial artist. Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist, winning several commendations from the Art Director's Club and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. In these early years, he shortened his name to "Warhol". The 1960s was an extremely prolific decade for Warhol. Appropriating images from popular culture, Warhol created many paintings that remain icons of 20th-century art, such as the Campbell's Soup Cans, Disasters and Marilyns. At the start of the 1970s, Warhol began publishing Interview magazine and renewed his focus on painting. Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987.The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1994.

The works of Nikolaus Moser cannot be classified. They are hymns to colour. The beholder must only puzzle over whether the pictures are abstract painting or concrete abstraction. The painter repeatedly determines for himself a new approach to painting. Moser does not make use of any definitions preceding the work, but lets the work evolve from within. It needs no explanation. This means that there is no horizon of interpretation appearing on a meta-level. The pictures are not created by chance. Nikolaus Moser is an artist of intelligent design. But he and it pose the question as to when the point has arrived at which the picture is finished.

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