As one of the last living Pop Art pioneers, and one of the first to investigate the modern cult of celebrity, James Francis Gill shot to fame with his vibrant artworks in the 1960s, becoming an almost overnight success, with pieces finding their way into galleries and museums within a matter of weeks. His Women in Cars series has seen huge success since its conception in the 1960s and remains firmly rooted in Pop Art history with its obsession with popular culture and colour. At the beginning of the 1960s, LIFE and TIME magazines regularly printed black and white images of movie stars and famous people getting out of cars, in early version of paparazzi shots. Gill saw this as a visual stimulus to incorporate large areas of colour into his paintings, as well as the reflections and shapes in the windscreen and windows, combined with portraits of beautiful women and famous men. The Women in Cars were born.
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