Artist Red Grooms

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This paper defines Pop art, of which Red Grooms was one of the founders, and its causative factors, such as a reaction to the increase in capitalist consumerism, particularly in countries like the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s. Pop artists, the author relates, questioned the formal aspects of art creation and presentation and refused to be confined by any conventional restrictions. While Red Grooms' art is unusually associated with large environmental sculptural works and happenings, the author points out that his oeuvre covered a very wide range of forms and mediums of expression, some of which are described in this paper.

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Introduction: The Context of Pop Art
Red Grooms and Pop Art

From the Paper:

"Red Grooms was born Charles Rogers Grooms in 1937 in Nashville, Tennessee. Grooms began his art career at the early age and while he was still a high school student, he had an exhibition of his work at a Nashville gallery. After school, Grooms studied art at Peabody College in Nashville. He was to move to New York in 1956, where he continued his art studies at the New School for Social Research. He remained in New York at it became both a source of inspiration for his work and his permanent home."

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