Friday, November 16, 2012

The Three Roads Painters Take On The Road Towards Practicing Pop Art

By John Beckvar


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. It is a fact that conventional art has always been viewed as being a bit elitist. It has evolved to popular art, though; however, said evolution could only be described as slow. It can also be classified as evolution because, at the end of this slow transformation of the art form, the artists deemed themselves to have improved greatly as artists. You should also realize that ordinary painters cannot just become popular art practitioners instantly, or whenever they want to. It is often a simultaneous process: they create popular art but they do not stop with their conventional art works.

After some time, you will notice a shift in their concentration, with them veering towards creating popular art works more than conventional art. A point eventually comes when they become dedicated to popular art completely, and when they therefore qualify to be termed as being pop artists. We now venture to look at the specific ways in which this evolution from conventional art to popular art is triggered.

Popular art works abound, and if an ordinary painter wants to eventually become a pop art practitioner, he should try to get exposed as much as he could to these works. Generally, ordinary painters like what they see when they manage to get close, or be exposed, to products of popular art. As a result, their curiosity is roused and they start to look into ways to come up with something similar. Soon they will find themselves deeply immersed in studying popular art practices and techniques. The lure of popular art would be so powerful that, at a certain point in time, they will no longer be interested with conventional art. When this happens, one could safely say that they have fully transformed into pop art practitioners.

The evolution of ordinary painters into pop art practitioners could also be facilitated by studying the various pop art literature that are now made available by the pioneers of this art movement. It is a sad fact that many of these literature are not really sought out initially by aspiring pop art practitioners. Rather, they come across the literature 'accidentally.' The literature in question tends to go to great lengths, in showing how popular art is better than conventional art which is depicted as, among other things, elitist. Some of the artists in question are persuaded by the literature in question, leading to their evolution from being conventional art practitioners to popular art practitioners.

Another way that would spur your evolution would be if you come into contact with pop art practitioners and spend a lot of time with them. Often, the practitioners of popular art tend to be rather different from other artists. They seem to enjoy their art more. They seem to earn more from their art. They derive more meaning from the art that they create. Naturally then, practitioners of conventional art who get to interact with these popular art practitioners are drawn to this particular art movement. This would spur their evolution from practitioners of conventional art to being more involved in practicing popular art.




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