MarchTheme(Art Movements): Pop Art (7/7) by gallimel
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*"What is pop art doing in your opinion?"
"It is using the commercial potential of art, I reckon."*
Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
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Subject: Digital Quest For Affection, two pictures assembled, and moduled in Adobe Photoshop 3
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Pop(ular) art was used to define, in England,a wave born in the 60s in USA, and from there quickly spread all over the world.Pop Art moves from the acknowledge that we live among commercial objects,bombed by constant visual advertising about them,that multiplies these objects in infinite numbers of copies,watchin us like totems from the walls of our streets, from tvs, from papers.Just like in previous times other objects and subjects were having their own languages to the viewer, so these industrial objects have theirs, that we naturally understand by osmosis since we are authomatically capable, living in these times where they are present too,to relate with that reality that makes our minds "consumistic" which they represents.We are conditioned by this situation, and this has modified as well our ways to see and to get the images around us.Pop art puts under our eyes the trivial, that we live immersed in, and tell us that this trivial has its sense; this trivial, is actually us, our societies' mark. And it is not a bad thing.Often people have related Pop Art to Dadaism. But again, Dadaism was a controversy against the kind of trivial that pop Art celebrates not like a disease but like a statement.Something that exist, so better analyze it than refuse reality.Pop Art wants to celebrate the trivial not because it is good in itself, but because it is a sign of current times, and it's artistic to describe the current times just like they are. With the language apt for it.The trivial object gets then observed, decontestualized, extruded from its frame with a similar way than Metaphisic and Surrealism used, but without any other aim that make us see that that trivial object do exist. As an important, yet undervalued, part of our life.Most relevant Pop Art names were Oldenburg, Warhol, Lichtenstein.Before them, as passage artists we shall mention Johns andRauschenberg. The three major names, in their personal accents, study detailes of life as we live it, enlargin their importance, and at the same time lucidly makin them sterotypes, revealing the conditioning they excercise onto us, by a sort of apologetic erasing based on deconstruction.When Lichtenstein enlarges comics, or objects, or even famous paintings from the past, and through mechanically handly reproduced topografic technique colours them with widened lines of basic nuances and primary red, yellow and blue, he brings us to a new reality. He enlarges to make us see, but as the colours widens their lines and dots, our eye, and then our mind is not anymore capable to reckon the object, once again,not anymore because we undervalue it, but because we are getting too deeper about it.In this thin balance between the trivial and the depth of thoughts about our society mechanism, stays the greatness of Pop Art, too often misconceived by many who state they like it, even.
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This was the last piece dedicated to The Art Movements. I thank the people in 2D Forum for challengin me in takin these tasks :) Hope you enjoyed. I enjoyed to create these 7 Sisters, quite unusual creations from me.
Comments (47)
nagishiva
It's amazing. Totally wonderful attack on the theme of shallowness :) When you told me the idea I wasn't honestly expecting it to look like this though..it's even greater :) And even though I can't have this one I am happy as I will recieve the one you posted two days ago.. :) I love my apartment now..full of drawings ;) Good job on this one though. I love when you are cruel ;)
gallimel
I love to be cruel too ;) The title it is in full expressing what I mean here. I hope just that people read it and try to understand ;) But I know many will open and think.. where's the rest of the chick body? ;)Ah, this one is a bad trick!" And there my sarchasm will have come to its peak. I am happy you'll have again on your walls all my sketches and paints of this series. Ia msorry if I kept for myself teh Fauves one.. but it was something all loved to stay here :) in my house :) Hope you don't mind :) Hugs :)
Tanialmeida
good visual impact i like the way my eyes follow through and explore! excellent composition and presentation ciao e bona domenica Meli ;0]
ICB
nice styl,good composition and idea. Good work.
bern
Pretty good work !
linkinpark
Fantastic composition as always honey,I love your sense for using colours!
jyriviuhko
Excellent journey... learning alot!!
polyphilo
Mmh... I guess there's a joke of words (but working just in italian language) disguised inside the picture... isn't it ? :-)
Synapse
Heheheeee... well Meli, you're in my Favorites (and I don't wanna enter into a debate with you about the validity of this!!) so I got sent straight here and thus saw the full image BEFORE the joke thumbnail, so it kinda missed the point. But I love the sexy-thumbnail-trap idea (it sure serves to double your hits or even triple them!) it's such a nice wind-up! My dear friend Balthaz@r must've been the king of innovative thumbnails here at 'rosity :-)
Anyway, I like the idea of doing it with trendy mobile phones, or "portable microwaves" as my band friends call them... I am a complete muppet when it comes to mobile phones and this pretty much sums up the way I see them! Infinite hugs honey, and glad your weekend's going so well :-)
Whitemouse
I am sure the phone company is going contact you to do the commercial!! LOL, great work.
jgeorge
Not my style, but great idea! I enjoyed the whole serie (and I admit that in following these 7 pics I learnt some things I didn't know)... Thank you, Meli! (and thanks to Synapse too, for pointing up the thumb thing... I'd missed it if it weren't for you ;))
altecfive
My thinking is the same as igeorge, Great
tjames
Has a very Warholish quality, yet doesn't go to extremes.
syndroid
I had to watch the thumbnail too... anyway, great work here and the description is something I enjoy as well.
Akinom
Close to Andy Warhol I think! Wonderful idea and fantasticly done! Great use of colors! Compliments!
tallpindo
Not so different from Ruth offereing her sandal to Boaz so she could work in his field. The sandal as kitsch lives in the flip phone with risque melodrama.
groush2
Yes ! ....Well Done !!!
gab-mag
Wow, great composition, Meli: I even could see the butterfly that comes out the phone's display, like commercial spot, hehe! ;-)
Lorrainejoy
Meli, you should enter the Renderosity Magazine Cover contest. You could win. The deadline is April 9th. You are a wonderful artist.
Niutek
Very pop-artish, indeed. The whole series was a wonderful idea and really perfectly executed one, too. Superb work, Meli :)
mooncat
Very cool!!
SophiaDeer
Excellent Pop art work, Meli!! Your talent is phenominal!! Gorgeous work with great colors!!
borsy
Excellent artwork!!! Color, composition and idea definantly "pop"!!! I loved the whole art movement series!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
vangogh
When I saw the preview and then read the title, I thought, what does this have in relation to Pop Art? Of course when I viewed the whole image, it was so clear. Nice jab at all the nudity surfers, and in a way your preview in itself is Pop Art too in that pin up images and poses of nude women holding swords is as commonplace and numerous as all the material things that surround us every day. Love the double interpretation of that and I enjoyed viewing very much and will hate to see march leave us because I enjoyed your series very much.
irix.
not much left here to say they said it all^^^ so ill say excellent ! and agree with everyone else lol hugz meli!
gunsan
Very cool pop art Meli. Agree with all above.
Sebulba_the_Dug
Very nice and I like the repedative nature! This a very beautiful piece, I really like this one! It is Very beautiful! I love your work!! :)
cockjuice
Is this Pop Art? Just Kidding, playing dumb here. I thought the hands in the video display were typing but on closer inspection, ah ha itchy noonies. . .I bet you are glad to have all seven done no? Great job on the series Meli, your research is so thorough. Bravo!
AxoNe.FLuX
excellent example...great job! ^,,^
Heart'Song
Wonderful ideas and wonderful representation. I have enjoyed this series very much!