Wednesday 14 November 2012

Pop Art - Ordinary Painters Can Create It, Too, And How

By Jacob Jines


There are three major ways in which ordinary painters typically evolve into pop art practitioners. If you're wondering who the 'ordinary painters' discussed in this topic are, they are those who did not start out in popular art and instead excelled in more conventional movements such as abstract expressionism. We are referring to that conversion, from the conventional art (which is usually somewhat elitist) to the popular art as an 'evolution' because, firstly, it tends to take place slowly. Secondly, it is an evolutionary process because the artists who go through it tend to view themselves as better artists at the end of the conversion. Becoming popular art practitioners cannot be achieved overnight or in the blink of an eye. It is often a simultaneous process: they create popular art but they do not stop with their conventional art works.

Of course, in due time, it will become noticeable how they will be creating more and more popular art works, and less and less of the conventional art. There will come a time when popular art will be the only thing they will be working on. At that time, they are officially pop artists. Let us try to define the various triggers to this evolution from conventional art to popular art.

By exposing themselves to products of popular art movement, ordinary painters will have better chances at becoming pop art practitioners. Products of popular art are found to be attractive by most ordinary painters once they've been exposed to them. This will spark a challenge within them to come up with something similar or just as attractive. This convinces them to try learning or studying the various practices in popular art. These artists would then be immersed so deep in popular art that there will come a time that they will no longer be interested in practicing conventional art. This marks their full conversion into pop art practitioners.

The pop art movement has many famous names of pioneers and people who popularized it. They have penned many literature regarding the subject, and ordinary painters could refer to them and use them in their quest to become pop art practitioners. These literature are not really something that is purposefully looked for by the practitioners of pop art who have made it big. Rather, they come across the literature 'accidentally.' These literature are actually very informative, delving into popular art in great depth and showing how it fares against conventional art. You would even learn about how pop art is better than the elitist conventional art. You can see how effective the literature is in turning ordinary painters into popular art practitioners.

Of course, ordinary painters could also learn from the best. They should try to interact with other pop art practitioners when they could. if you compare pop art practitioners from other artists, you will see how different they are. They seem to have more zest for their art. It is also clear that they earn more from it. They seem to draw more meaning from their art. These interaction with pop art practitioners will effectively urge these painters to try out practicing popular art. They subsequently evolve from being conventional art practitioners, into being popular art practitioners.




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