Pop Art - Belgium

Belgium

In Belgium, Pop Art was represented by Paul Van Hoeydonck, whose sculpture Fallen Astronaut was left on the moon during one of the moon missions. Internationally recognised artists such as Marcel Broodthaers ( 'vous êtes doll? ") and Panamarenko are indebted to the Pop Art movement. For Marcel Broodthaers the great example was George Segal. Another well-known Roger Raveel mounted a birdcage with a real live pigeon in one of his paintings. At the end of the sixties and early seventies Pop Art references disappear from the work of these artists as they adopt a more critical attitude towards America because of the Vietnam War's increasingly gruesome character. Panamarenko, however, has to this day retained the irony inherent in the Pop Art movement.