Help!! Pop-art!

No

Floyd if they are not picky I don't see why not.

Ditto Marlene

What I have always thought of as pop art is more comic book art of cartoon art.

Maybe I should just make a 15x30 canvas print of a check for a donation to the cause. lol

How about this?

That one is better Floyd, if they are not picky.

Why not ask your friend what he/she thinks you should enter as pop art? Then they will see you don't actually do pop art and stop bugging you.

Is there such a thing as Pop-traditional-conservative art Floyd? Yeah! Take a quick photo of some Cambell's chicken noodle soup. Then work the wonders of photoshop (or whatever program your using) on it. Make sure to brighten up those colors. Might even want to migrate an image of Hendrix into it. "Hendrix in Chicken Noodle!"

(... and don't forget to give credit where credit's are due)

According to the dictionary pop art is...."art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values"

That second image is closer but still a stretch. Take a photo of some pop culture icon and run it through the FotoSketcher illustration preset and there you go. :)

He will tell me anything Val, just to get the money. He has no regard for my wallet what so ever. Nor would I his if the role were reversed...

Floyd, I think your joking idea of an image of the donation check could actually work. It would be a commentary on charitable giving. I'd take the image and colorize it in 4 different vivid hues and put them up in 2 image x 2 image configuration.

no for Kokopelli too, Floyd.....and as an aside, Kokopelli was a pedophile.

Floyd, I agree with Mary...that would be cool...you can make it say whatever you want too.

Hope you let us know what you end up doing.

When you think of true pop art, think of Andy Warhol and Lichtenstein. I'm sorry, but neither works.

Peter Max's work is another example of Pop Art.

Pop Art is generally rendered in simple lines, with bright colors. It's flat-looking and sometimes cartoony. Perhaps you could take one of your truck photos, Floyd, and run it through some Photoshop filters to give it a Pop Art look. Might be worth a try.

Floyd,

I consider this Post Pop Art. If you want to buy a copy, I will completely discount it. I'd be honored.

Dave

PS I did it during a time I did not sign my work. LOL

Check out a print with the Orange FT 17 frame from Pixels.

Floyd, both of your pics are awesome pop art. They both look like pop art, but one is pop landscape. That's new!

Floyd,

Brain storm a little. Just go to a grocery store, hardware, fast-food joint etc. Take some photos of some cheap everyday consumer products. Use basic filters to make the image into a B&W accenting the edges so it looks almost like a drawing or something similar. Slap some sloppy unrelated transparent colors over it and BINGO, POP ART! I'd do a colorized iPhone, iPad, or a Big Mac maybe, a light bulb, a screw driver, a potato, carrot. Whatever. Let your imagination fly. Then run with it. Oh yes, and make it oversized and as vapid as possible.

Does this art show have a working definition of Pop Art that they are using as a guideline for acceptable submissions?
You should ask them... I am sure you are no stranger to the idea that different shows have different levels of flexibility RE: submissions.

Also... a different question: Do *you* in order to maintain your integrity as an artist / art dealer, feel the need to conform to certain standards RE: adhering to the idea that if one submits ones art in a Pop-Art themed show, the art that *you* submit (nevermind what else is allowed in), ought to actually qualify as Pop Art ? Or are you ok with just tossing their way whatever it is you want to get rid of this week, if they will accept it?

I would have to do some research on Pop Art if I were asked to submit an entry to a Pop Art show... and figure out what it is that I wanted to say with my probably not very notable contribution to the genre. It's one of those genres that has fuzzy edges around the category, and can be pushed in a number of directions. Even so, the ideas embodied in the expression - the conceptual art aspect of Pop Art, seems to me important.

Sorry, that's probably not a helpful answer.

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David R:
Are you suggesting he enter a parody of pop art? LOL

Here you go Floyd, just in case 1 of me is not enough! Feel free to use this image anyway you want. Lol!

"Are you suggesting he enter a parody of pop art? LOL"

I think DR is suggesting that pop art IS a parody.

Floyd:
I think you could probably take any one of the images on your portfolio, repeat & colorize it more or less the way Mario did, and voila, Pop Art.
Possibly aim for an image that would in some way be iconic of it's type.

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David K:
Well, in some respects it is a form of parody. So...there you go.

The POP in Pop Art refers to popular culture. The movement was a commentary on mass production and mass consumption.

Landscapes ain't pop culture or even mass produced.

Replace Mario's portrait with images of Katy Perry then that would be Pop Art. :)

Scan or photograph a coin and do a tiled and colorized set.

"The POP in Pop Art refers to popular culture. The movement was a commentary on mass production and mass consumption.
Landscapes ain't pop culture or even mass produced."

About landscapes not being pop culture. Well... maybe. Usually they're not pop culture, but depending on the particular landscape, the Pop Art genre boundaries could be pushed to include certain iconic landscapes. A pop art landscape of the Grand Canyon, could be done, for example. A cityscape of a skyline of St. Louis, including the arch, or San Francisco including the Golden Gate bridge could be done as pop art. A lighthouse seascape, or an old barn could work.

Try driving across the country along route I-70. I'm thinking of the stretch between Denver and St. Louis with all those agricultural small town flat skylines dominated by these enormous almost cathedral-like grain elevators that stop looking so cathedral-like the closer you get to them. I could see something like that as the basis for a pop art piece.

Any old landscape wouldn't do... there would have to be a statement about how deeply imbedded, perhaps overplayed, the image is in our culture.

"Replace Mario's portrait with images of Katy Perry then that would be Pop Art." :)- David King

How about this David? this is a photo of my son Jeremy Carta and Katy Perry having her hair done before a show.

Mario,

Too predictable. LOL

Floyd,

Go with the Post Pop Art. ;)

Dave

What do you mean predictable, when's the last time you saw a photo of my son? Lol!

"What do you mean predictable, when's the last time you saw a photo of my son?"

Never have, so obviously he is not a pop culture icon.

Mario,

Last year when you were showing us the very same pic.

Dave

Well, there's Pop Art and then there's "in the style of" Pop Art. So, I think, particularly in this instance - it's a charity thing, people, not a treatise on historical definitions of art styles - simplifying and stylizing just about any image to resemble the style will do, if you want to use something you have vs. creating something from scratch.
If I were so inclined to create from scratch, I would use fidget spinners, Kardashians, drones spying on people, people with cell phones, etc. Probably want to stay apolitical, but there's a treasure trove there.

Something tells me Floyd has left the building.

Dave

"Never have, so obviously he is not a pop culture icon."- David King

True David K, he not a pop culture icon, he is though hair stylist to many pop culture icons, mens hair cuts start at like $750 not including blow drying, that was a few years ago.



"Mario, Last year when you were showing us the very same pic."-Dave

Dang Dave, I don't remember what I did three days ago much less a year ago. Lol!