"Antony Donaldson fait partie des artistes mythiques du Pop Anglais.Son analyse originale et schématique des formes et des couleurs proposées par l’environnement urbain, marie efficacité et étrangeté, figuration et géométrie avec une iconographie marquée par la répétition stroboscopique de pin-up girls, de voitures de course, de façades de cinémas, d’hommages à l’histoire de l’art… Sa toile Take Five est le premier tableau Pop entré à la Tate Modern dès 1963 !Ce qui a touché l’artiste à Los Angeles, ce n’est ni le temps ni l’histoire, mais avant tout l’espace. La Cité des Anges… « Le paradis et l’enfer » selon la formule de Bertolt Brecht, « La ville qui en donne le plus » le slogan officiel. Une ville « test », le prototype du XXIe siècle qui, depuis sa création, exporte son cinéma, ses séries télé, son design, son style de vie, ses embouteillages de voitures, ses fantasmes, ses angoisses et ses peurs. Tout pour exalter un artiste ! Comme d’autres artistes associés au Pop Art qui se penchent sur l’imagerie sexuelle – notamment Allen Jones, Tom Wesselman, Mel Ramos, Rober Graham – l’art d’Antony Donaldson peut être vu comme l’incarnation du balayage et des changements complets d’attitudes dans la société des années 1960 et qui ont imprimé un impact permanent sur les générations successives."
"Antony Donaldson is one of the mythical artists of British Pop artists. His original and schematic analysis of shapes and colours offered by the urban environment combine efficiency and strangeness, figuration and geometry with an iconography marked by the strobe repetition on pin-ups girls, racing cars, cinemas facades, homage to art history. His large painting Take Five was very first Pop artwork to enter the Tate collection in 1963 !What most affected the artist in Los Angeles was neither the weather, nor its history, but the space. The City of Angels… “Heaven and Hell” according to Berthold Brecht, “The City That Gives the Most” as the official slogan says. The prototype 21st Century “test” city that, ever since its beginnings, had exported its cinema, its TV series, its design, its lifestyle, its traffic jams, its fantasies, its angst and its fears. Everything an artist could wish for!Together with the work of other artists associated with Pop who embraced sexual imagery – notably Jones, Wesselmann, Mel Ramos, Robert Graham – Donaldson’s art can be seen to have embodied the sweepeng change in attitudes that occurred during the 1960s and that had a permanent impact on subsequent generations."
"Antony Donaldson is one of the mythical artists of British Pop artists. His original and schematic analysis of shapes and colours offered by the urban environment combine efficiency and strangeness, figuration and geometry with an iconography marked by the strobe repetition on pin-ups girls, racing cars, cinemas facades, homage to art history. His large painting Take Five was very first Pop artwork to enter the Tate collection in 1963 !What most affected the artist in Los Angeles was neither the weather, nor its history, but the space. The City of Angels… “Heaven and Hell” according to Berthold Brecht, “The City That Gives the Most” as the official slogan says. The prototype 21st Century “test” city that, ever since its beginnings, had exported its cinema, its TV series, its design, its lifestyle, its traffic jams, its fantasies, its angst and its fears. Everything an artist could wish for!Together with the work of other artists associated with Pop who embraced sexual imagery – notably Jones, Wesselmann, Mel Ramos, Robert Graham – Donaldson’s art can be seen to have embodied the sweepeng change in attitudes that occurred during the 1960s and that had a permanent impact on subsequent generations."