POP ART

Here is my new piece: POP ART! It`s photographs on wood and drippy interior flat wall paint, mounted on a Wall Street Journal ! I did NOT crop it because the newspaper is part of the piece; a...Roy did this alot, so there! I do not believe that this has been done before. Those are Roy Lichtenstein photos that I took of his prints. That is ironic, a print of a print. Roy tried to do something new, now Claude Bovee attempts a FIRST too! I know you are not very impressed now, but many years later you will look back on this as a break-through art work! I will go to Cloverfield today, because this is a piece of POP ART film making; just what I desire to experience in its home-grown aura of DESTRUCTO AMERICANO, no-holding-back doom and gloom 9/11 metaphor, box office busting monster throbbing...cornball schmaltz...perfect for a day off holiday. Once there was a way to get back homeward, once there was a way to get back home, sleep pretty darling do not cry...Sir Paul... BOY, YOU`RE GONNA CARRY THAT WEIGHT, CARRY THAT WEIGHT A LONG TIME.

SUBURBAN BLISS!

Pop, as Lichenstein saw it, was an "anti" movement, opposing "all of those brilliant ideas" of the past. This is from G. R. Swenson who wrote some articles about Pop art in the early 1960s.

Interiors Series: Blue Floor, 1990

This one by Roy Lichtenstein uses the printing media of lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint. This is huge and comes in at 51 1/4 inches by 77 1/2 inches. Thus, it`s hard to get the complete effect from this rendering. Oh, yesterday`s article was in Newsweek, not Time. It`s 'Special Report the Story of Pop'. You must read it, because it was written in 1966, and has the spontaneity and authenticity of that time. It hasn`t been retread through constant redefining of Pop art, I mean. Blue floor was taken from an industrial catalog and then processed into a redefined piece of Pop. This is the perfect suburban life of the 1960s!