Richard Hawkins.Lately, I've been so involved in making and looking at paintings that Johns, Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, and Warhol are among the last artists I'd seek out. American Pop can be about as interesting as pondering a stop sign. The shade of red or the curve of the S are pretty much beside the point. British Pop artists seemed less horny horn·y adj. 1. Made of horn or a similar substance. 2. Tough and calloused, as of skin. for critiques of authenticity and originality. As painters, they adapted and hybridized some of the looseness and ambivalence of '40s figuration fig·u·ra·tion n. 1. The act of forming something into a particular shape. 2. A shape, form, or outline. 3. The act of representing with figures. 4. A figurative representation. 5. and the game-playing of gestural abstraction. Either way, it had more to do with painting than literalizing a Newman zip into a flag's stripe. Peter Saul Peter Saul is an American painter born in 1934 in San Francisco, CA. His work, which has connections with pop art, figurative art, and expressionism, became known and successful in the 1960s. He continues to paint provocative, well-reviewed, and collected paintings. and Joe Goode Joe Goode (b. 1937) born Joseph Goode, is an American Artist. Goode was born in Oklahoma City, OK, and from 1959 to 1961 attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Birth of "Pop Art" Goodes's first solo show was at James Newman's Dilexi Gallery in 1962. have been favorites for a long time, too, though their attraction to the materiality MATERIALITY. That which is important; that which is not merely of form but of substance. 2. When a bill for discovery has been filed, for example, the defendant must answer every material fact which is charged in the bill, and the test in these cases seems to of paint probably accounts for their not being the first artists you think of as epitomizing Pop. American Pop paintings, to generalize, tended to depict clean, clear, and indisputable icons on reduced surfaces--which is to say, they were readily reproducible. I wouldn't make a case for more material, less iconographic paintings being better. It's just that a Warhol is the same on the wall as it is in print, only bigger.--AS TOLD TO RUSSELL FERGUSON [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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