The World Goes Pop with Alan Cumming | Unlock Art | Tate

Actor Alan Cumming presents a quick fire guide to Pop Art.

From the streets of Manhattan, Alan Cumming whips through the history of Pop Art in America and Britain, from Andy Warhol's soup cans to Peter Blake's blue jeans.

Unlock Art is Tate's new short film series, offering a witty inside track on the world of art. Alan Cumming joins forces with new Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi, Frank Skinner and other celebrity art fans to introduce some of the big ideas that have shaped art history.

A new film is released each month, with topics ranging from the history of the nude and the nature of the art market, to Surrealism and Pop Art. The topic of the last of the eight films in the series will be put to an online public vote.

Unlock Art is a collaboration between Tate and Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts.

As an ongoing supporter of Tate's work, Le Méridien also sponsors the Outset/Frieze Art Fair Fund to benefit the Tate collection, which enables Tate to buy work by emerging artists at Frieze London.

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[SynthApprentice]

Look at it this way: at least the title wasn't Alan Cumming on Pop Art.

[SamariaDriscoll]

I remember watching this in my art class in community college ten years ago.

[joshy]

did anybody use this for their art homework lol

[tsslideshows]

Great. Loved it and useful for my art homework. 🎨

[susie]

Never thought I'd see Fegan Floop talking about pop art haha

[DarkAngelEU]

pop art is so rad we still can't get past it, even today's European "neoromantic" art is still full of pop aesthetics

Pop Art is cool and this video is very cool

[_Bizzy_]

What is the name of the song at the end? During the credits.

[maureenklingels-pruss]

everything you already knew about Pop Art, but hey why miss an opportunity to see the groovy  Alan Cumming

[BarryDesborough]

The date on the Hamilton piece is incorrect. 1956, not 1992!

[garypeterson]

Why is the Hamilton piece dated 1992? I think 1956 is more like it.

[soymilk]

who's here because of Mr.Maher's Honor project?

[HahaHaha-sufq]

I can only imagine the things he had to go through because of his last name

[charliehardstaff]

Anybody else doing this for home school

[stevelaferney]

Regardless how I understood PoP aRt it still seemed a ripoff of everyone concerned. Especially Warhol and his soup cans, photo repros, etc. The photographer who originally created the image to whoever held the copyright and trademark got ripped off. Not to mention the buyer and the rest of the world that swallowed much of this that was not really original nor artistic. Some pop artists were however very talented and produced work worthy of their efforts.