Pauline Boty
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Pauline Boty |
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Surrey, England |
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English |
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1938 |
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1966 |
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Biography
At the age of twenty-three, Pauline Boty had her first group exhibition with Peter Blake, Geoffrey Reeve and Christine Porter at the Artists International Association in London. An Observer review titled 'The New Satire' commented, "Ernst has known best how to impart a wayward poetry to photographic and printed fragments. By similar means his disciple at the AIA, Pauline Boty, alludes to the enigma of the space age with mock titles. Pungent comment in image and caption is the whole idea.
After Boty's early death she was written out of the history of British Pop Art. A recent exhibition and catalogue {Whitford Fine Art/The Mayor Gallery 1998) has uncovered her role. Boty trained at the Royal College of Art. Her paintings and collages juxtaposed images from women's and pornographic magazines, sometimes with vivid, sensual painted flowers, and she also drew upon literary sources (Gertrude Stein is invoked in the early work a rose is a rose is a rose).
In common with other pop artists Boty was fascinated by film (she also worked as an actress), and what she termed 'present day mythology'. Film stars appear in With Love to Jean Paul Belmondo (1962) and The Only Blonde in the World (1963), a painting of Marilyn Monroe in a still from Some Like it Hot (i959). a film in which femininity is seductive but also sent up as a comic, camp masquerade. Boty portrayed a confident female sexuality in the work 5-4-3-2-1 (1963), used on the catalogue cover for the only solo exhibition during her lifetime, at the Grabowski Gallery in 1963. A beautiful young woman is pictured laughing beneath a text that reads 'OH FOR A FUI' Political comment remained at the centre of Boty's work. She layered collage, text and paint to simulate and critique the mass-media modern world and the representation of femininity within it. |
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