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The exhibition, which showcases about 200 works by 70 artists
and runs through to June 18, looks at American pop art or
printmaking over the past six decades, a period when the
country's wealth, power and cultural influence had never been
greater.
"In the first half of the show we are looking at pop,
conceptualism, minimalism (and) abstraction. In the second part
we are looking at various social issues within America (over)
those six decades," Hugo Chapman, Simon Sainsbury Keeper of
Prints & Drawings at the British Museum, told Reuters.
"I think the environment that brought (U.S. President Donald)
Trump's victory, you can see in this show," he added.
The exhibition, dubbed "The American Dream: Pop to the present",
includes works by pop art legend Andy Warhol and others who
shaped the movement, like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed
Ruscha, Chuck Close, Louise Bourgeois and Kara Walker.
"As a new president enters the White House and another chapter
of U.S. history begins, it feels like an apposite moment to
consider how artists have reflected America as a nation over 50
tumultuous years," said Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British
Museum.
(Reporting by Pedro Caiado, Writing by Maytaal Angel, editing by
Ed Osmond)
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