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Post by chetzar on May 14, 2009 12:47:39 GMT -8
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Post by thecreep on May 15, 2009 21:14:06 GMT -8
Nice article. I especially like the "I don’t know enough about art to talk about it." point.
One of the reasons why I love, pop surrealism (or whatever is called now) is because it infiltrates our minds so easily. For example, the "I Am 8 Bit" exhibition gave people to ability to talk about art, they might know about mediums or perspective, etc but they sure know about video games.
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Post by Bytor on May 16, 2009 4:10:05 GMT -8
Nice article. I especially like the "I don’t know enough about art to talk about it." point. One of the reasons why I love, pop surrealism (or whatever is called now) is because it infiltrates our minds so easily. For example, the "I Am 8 Bit" exhibition gave people to ability to talk about art, they might know about mediums or perspective, etc but they sure know about video games. You are so right, I think the pop surreal movement defiantly relates to the average person and people aren't afraid of it, they know when they look at a piece of pop surreal art if they like it or not and they don't seem to intimidated to speak up about it. But I am starting to think that the average person maybe doesn't realize concept that fine artist create art that is for sale and that the galleries sell it for them. Now I haven't done a major pole on this or any kinda serouis research, but I did have a fairly intelligent man from NYC see my work and then one of the first things out of his mouth was," do you sell your work?" . This made me start to wonder if many others didn't really know that artist do sell their work and that they could own it, that purchasing the work wasn't for just the "rich and famous" |
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Post by thecreep on May 16, 2009 17:10:49 GMT -8
You are so right, I think the pop surreal movement defiantly relates to the average person and people aren't afraid of it, they know when they look at a piece of pop surreal art if they like it or not and they don't seem to intimidated to speak up about it. But I am starting to think that the average person maybe doesn't realize concept that fine artist create art that is for sale and that the galleries sell it for them. Now I haven't done a major pole on this or any kinda serouis research, but I did have a fairly intelligent man from NYC see my work and then one of the first things out of his mouth was," do you sell your work?" . This made me start to wonder if many others didn't really know that artist do sell their work and that they could own it, that purchasing the work wasn't for just the "rich and famous" Very true, I know many average people are not aware that the art is for sale. One of the things that would surely scare off people like this, is the prices. While pop surrealism isn't quite just for the rich, an average joe or jane would see an 11" x 14" painting for $2000 as an outlandish amount of money. So the pop surrealism scene has been able to throw a wider net across viewers than previous scenes have, but there is still a select group that is able to enjoy the art as far as collecting goes. |
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