Pop Art Portraits

The National Portrait Gallery opened a major exhibition called Pop Art Portraits this week looking at the portraiture work of 28 British and American Pop artists from the 1950s and 60s.

The exhibition is divided into six different sections Portraits and Style, Fantasy, Pop Art and Film, Marilyn, Innocence and Experience, and it includes pictures by artists such as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Blake and David Hockney.

Pop Art Portraits runs until 20 January 2008 and tickets cost £9. Its open daily from 10am–6pm with late night opening Thursdays and Fridays until 9pm. The National Portrait Gallery is on the eastern side of the National Gallery, opposite St Martin in the Fields church. Leicester Square and Charing Cross are the nearest Tube stations. Map