Pop Art #1 by bmac62
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Visiting the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City for today's upload.
My informal title: Soft Sax and the Ladies.
My focus: The Pop Art, "Soft Saxophone, Scale B" (1992) by Claes Oldenburg.
I've always had a bit of trouble with Pop Art. It has seemed incongruous to me. You'll really see what I mean when you see my next Pop Art upload.
So, I went back to learn a bit more. And here is the opening paragraph from what I found to be a very informative wiki.
"Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it." Here's the whole WIKI if you are interested in more:) Hope you are...
As I see Pop Art, there are all sorts of implications for us right here in the photography gallery! Now, I am thinking of going out and buying a stack of Campbell Soup cans:)
The artist made this Soft Sax using canvas, wood, clothesline, Dacron, resin and latex paints. What was Claes Oldenburg thinking???
Added: Two of the artist's acknowledged references were to a langurous female form and a twisting current of air in the form of a tornado. Ok, then...;-)
Bill:)
"This is a Big Deal"
Comments (43)
DAVER2112
That sax looks like it's seen better days LOL! Pretty cool captue. :)
MrsRatbag
I can't even begin to guess. This kind of art just goes way over my head, I guess I'm more of a traditionalist. Nice capture, though!
beatoangelico
SUPERB SCULTURE AND EXCELLENT CAPTURE...GREAT WORK..!!!!!
jmb007
superbe sculture!!!
Meisiekind
What WAS he thinking??? I am with Denise - a traditionalist! I remember visiting the Guggenheim in NYC and canning myself for the small heap of yellow salt lying in the middle of a huge open space with a 3 page description of the "art piece" - complete with it's own guard on duty! Pffft!!!! Sorry - that is weird... But I'm rambling... This is a marvelous shot Bill and the POV perfect including the form of the lady and even the visitor walking past!!! The sax - oh well - if you say so!!! LOL...
durleybeachbum
I LOVE Claus Oldenberg!! Folk seem very keen to purchase stuffed objects that look like furry animals..give me something more unusual every time! Art is: What nature is not: Joy in the making: Something old said in a new way: add your own thoughts here..... I'm with Carin however about conceptual art...luckily it will pass, very much like a bad curry
helanker
HA ! What an original ...thing, ok sax. I kind of like it. NOT that I would like to own it LOL! I bet he had fun creating it. Yes, I like it. Well captured too.
aksirp
pop-art... yes sometimes its cool, sometimes its make fast without work... but as you i am always open to show new expositions and somethimes its shit:) your picture is great with the sax in front and the two ladies background!
kbrog
It's an interesting way to express the softness of the music a Sax can play. Excellent capture!
kenmo
Wow Bill...that's certainly an interesting & unique shot...!!!
flavia49
fantastic capture!!
kansas
Interesting, but it doesn't appeal to me. Great photo, however.
babuci
Glad you mentioned sax so I don't have to guess what is this. I guess with pop-art imagination can be free. Nice capture.
Faemike55
The whole object of art is to generate a set of feelings from the viewer/listener/ad nauseum. the only good parts of the scene that you have her is the lady walking away and the lady in the painting looking like she'd rather be ANYwhere else than to be hung near this THING
neiwil
blondeblurr
The best thing about this - is your photo - to capture, what is real or fantasy to others...I rest my case. If he would have only added some more colour - to make it come alive ! unique to say the least, BB
goodoleboy
So Pop Art is what Andrea has been entertaining and provoking us with...hmmm...I should have suspected. The ossified saxaphone looks like it's loaded with old army canteens, or perhaps Thompson submachine gun drums. I can't tell what that black snout is that's sticking out of the mouthpiece. Anyway, you got some excellent, sharp foreground and background focus, along with fine composition, detail and lighting effects in this offering.
auntietk
Your photograph really shows this off to its best advantage. The lighting is wonderful, and your composition with the two women to one side of the sax is nicely done. The image conveys the open space of the museum. Very well presented!
bazza
Mmmm Nice capture Bill.. Yes I can see a sax in this I think, great info too.. well done!!
CoreyBlack
A very quick comment as the cafe I'm writing this from is about to close. Interesting photo. Art is in the eye of the beholder I guess. As the son of professional artists I'm pretty open to just about anything artistic, and I'll admit to liking the subversive quality a lot of PopArt posseses, but that doesn't mean I like all of it. I'm not sure I like this piece or not. Looks kind of like an explosion at a vacuum cleaner factory. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
jocko500
pop art is art that pop hhahhaahha just a joke. anyway i like the picture of the girl in this too
RodS
Great shot, Bill, and most interesting commentary. I rember several years ago I visited the Nelson with a photography club I was vice-chairman of at the time. In one of the rooms devoted to "Modern" art there was a 'sculpture' on the wall. This sculpture appeared (to me, at least) to be a large bit of debris from the aftermath of a serious automobile collision. They wouldn't let you take photos back then, or I would surely have photographed it. But I stood there for several minutes trying to visualize in my mind what, exactly the artist visualized when he/she created this piece. I finally gave up and went for a cheeseburger....
hipps13
very interesting, I agree caught my attention warm hugs, Linda
MrsLubner
Your composition is perfect.
whaleman
Okay Bill, I have now "comtemplated" it, and what I see is another piece of hot-glue-gun work created by someone without any skills in sculpture, likely just to provoke comment as your photo has obviously done. Unfortunately museums seem to be populated with acquisition staff of the same ilk, paying big taxpayer dollars for stuff like this while works of true artisans like woodcarvers go unnoticed. "We can't display this carving, it looks too much like a real heron!" Thanks for reminding me why I avoid so-called art museums. Your photo, on the other hand, is very well done, showing the only visitor scurrying away from the junkpile and the ill-positioned woman displaying shadows from non-existant light sources! After you're done though, you really should reformat your data card to remove all traces. I guess people might take this as a rant, but no, I have not yet begun to rant...
mariogiannecchini
Beautiful capture ! For the beauty of the sculptures I leave to others more qualified the review!
jayfar
Great capture Bill, the composition is almost perfect to my eye, but I think it might be better if the lady was walking in instead of out! Ok you can't have everthing.
lyron
Excellent capture!!!!
jendellas
MMMM I suppose I can see a saxaphone, not really my cuppa tea but great pic from you Bill.
debbielove
Er! No! Sorry.. Not me.. But you knew that.. I would guess judging by the dates a HUGE amount of mind altering drugs were involved somewhere along this.....piece of....'arts' creation.. But, sorry not me.. Not the bit of 'art' on the wall behind.. Rob