:narrows eyes at art:
Oct. 10th, 2007 02:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperThose in central London may have seen a helicopter dragging a banner this lunchtime saying 'Pop Art is: Gagosian'. So me, being the good little consumer, went and did exactly what they wanted and googled Gagosian, ending up at the gallery's website. Pop Art exhibition. See me go 'Bor-ing.'
Yeah, I'm one of those people whose automatic reaction to most Pop Art - or at least that which proclaims itself to be (I'm not including retro-themed kitsch, that's never deluded itself that it's great art) is an :eyeroll:. Has been ever since I discovered it. I hate it and always have because it's so bloody derivative and wouldn't recognise an original idea if it donned a sequinned jumpsuit and started singing Elvis - its entire premise is 'ohmigosh aren't we so *clever* for taking other peoples' work, copying it badly and presenting it as art?' I have no problems with its source - Campbell's labels are good pieces of design, and as for Lichtenstein... well, I used to yell 'Excuse me, he wiped out the details and context and really good line work of the original war and romance comics! Traced! *Bad* tracing at that!' at my art teacher when we were being forced to study Pop Art. And as for the ones who do collage of magazine pics, don't get me started. The only half-decent thing to come out of Pop Art as a movement was the banana, and the style of that was stolen from the standard two-colour printing of adverts and posters.
:ommmmmmm:
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go and calm myself down by looking at Pollock images.
Yeah, I'm one of those people whose automatic reaction to most Pop Art - or at least that which proclaims itself to be (I'm not including retro-themed kitsch, that's never deluded itself that it's great art) is an :eyeroll:. Has been ever since I discovered it. I hate it and always have because it's so bloody derivative and wouldn't recognise an original idea if it donned a sequinned jumpsuit and started singing Elvis - its entire premise is 'ohmigosh aren't we so *clever* for taking other peoples' work, copying it badly and presenting it as art?' I have no problems with its source - Campbell's labels are good pieces of design, and as for Lichtenstein... well, I used to yell 'Excuse me, he wiped out the details and context and really good line work of the original war and romance comics! Traced! *Bad* tracing at that!' at my art teacher when we were being forced to study Pop Art. And as for the ones who do collage of magazine pics, don't get me started. The only half-decent thing to come out of Pop Art as a movement was the banana, and the style of that was stolen from the standard two-colour printing of adverts and posters.
:ommmmmmm:
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go and calm myself down by looking at Pollock images.
