Friday, November 9, 2012

Ways To Turn Ordinary Artists Into Practitioners Of Pop Art

By Aeron Clerk


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.

As time goes by though, the artists in question find themselves devoting more time and energy to the production of the popular art pieces, as opposed to the conventional art pieces. Eventually, they earn a reputation as pop artists once they completely let go of conventional art and concentrate solely on popular art. Let us try to define the various triggers to this evolution from conventional art to popular art.

One sure way that would pave the path of ordinary painters towards becoming pop art practitioners is to expose themselves to various products or art works that are defined by popular art. Generally, ordinary painters like what they see when they manage to get close, or be exposed, to products of popular art. They are subsequently compelled to figure out ways of coming up with similar artist products. This convinces them to try learning or studying the various practices in popular art. The point when they become pop art practitioners is when they fully stop creating conventional art. Instead, they will only be doing popular art and none of those conventional art works.

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. More often than not, they only happened to stumble on these literature. If you need to gain more understanding about popular art, devouring all the related literature will go a very long way in providing all the information you need. 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.

Of course, ordinary painters could also learn from the best. They should try to interact with other pop art practitioners when they could. Often, the practitioners of popular art tend to be rather different from other artists. They seem to enjoy their art more. It also appears as though they earn more from the practice of their art. They also seem to find their art more meaningful or with more depth. These interaction with pop art practitioners will effectively urge these painters to try out practicing popular art. As a result, we would see more and more conventional art practitioners making that shift to becoming practitioners of popular art.




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