Pop art: Difference between revisions

== Quotes on Pop art ==

=== 1960s - 1970s ===

* The reason I’mI'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

* The name [Pop] sounds so awful. [[Dada]] must have something to do with '''Pop'''. it's so funny, the names are really synonyms. Does anyone know what they're supposed to mean or have to do with, those names? [[Jasper Johns|Johns]] and [[Robert Rauschenberg|Rauschenberg]], Neo-Dada for all those years, and everyone calling them derivative and unable to transform the things they use, are now called progenitors of Pop. It's funny the way things change. I think [[John Cage]] has been very influential, and [[Merce Cunningham]] too, I think.. ..History books are being rewritten all the time.

* Everybody has called '''Pop Art''' 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. America was hit by industrialism and capitalism harder and sooner and its values see more askew.. .I think the meaning of my work is that it’sit's industrial; it’s what all the world will soon become. Europe will be the same way, soon, so it [Pop Art] won’twon't be American; it will be universal.

=== 1970s - 1980s ===

* People keep on wanting fetish figures, and things like that are very popular. That’sThat's '''pop art'''. There was an enormous resistance to Abstract Expressionism and there still is to that school, which is not dead at all. But pop art came as a reaction to that because kids can’tcan't paint abstract expressionism unless they’rethey're under five year of age. Because it really is tremendously hard work and it’sit' very challenging. But the point is, people love an immediately recognizable word – if you put a word in anything, they lie it.. ..I am not interested in culture at all. Once a work of art has gotten into the culture, its dead as far as I’mI'm concerned. I think there is a difference between art and culture. Or as the sage once said, “Art"Art is what we do"; culture is what is done to us.

* What interests me is to paint the kind of anti-sensitivity that impregnates modern civilization. I think art since [[w:Paul Cezanne|Cezanne]] has become extremely romantic and unrealistic, feeding on art. It is Utopian. It has less and less to do with the world. It looks inward — neo-Zen and all that. '''Pop Art''' looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself.'''

=== 1990s and later2000s ===

** [[Grace Hartigan]]; Asas quotedcited in "'Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies"' in ''The New York Times'' (18 November 2008)

* I’veI've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as [[Dada]] and [[Surrealism]] and '''pop art'''. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That’sThat's what I’veI've always done.