Major Pop Art exhibition opens in London

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LONDON (AFP) — A major new exhibition opened at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Thursday, bringing together 52 key works from one of the world's most popular and influential art movements -- Pop Art.

"Pop Art Portraits" contains works from 28 artists from Britain and the United States, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney, and is designed to show how the genre revolutionised portrait painting.

It examines how the artists depicted the famous and their use of images drawn from advertising, pop music, the cinema, magazines and newspapers.

"Pop art portraits are not simply celebratory they are also disturbing," Paul Moorehouse, the gallery's 20th century curator, told reporters.

Among the works are Lichtenstein's acrylic...