Tag: Pop art
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Everybody’s doing the twist (even pop artists)
I saw clips off the 1962 film Pop Goes The Easel aeons ago, but never watched the full BBC Monitor documentary by a young Ken Russell until now. It featured an equally young looking Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. What I love about this, and the clip I saw many moons…
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Jim’ll Paint It
In hysterics over this, Jim will paint anything people suggest in MS Paint – some of which comes over as actually quite artistic, in a sort of Thiftstore Outsider art meets Pop art way. Above is ‘Ann Widdecombe riding Space Mountain’ – of course! And here’s ‘Brian Blessed riding a Henry hoover alongside D’n’B DJ…
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Waiting for Garfield
Behold Dan Walsh’s genius Garfield minus Garfield; which is unusual in a whole sea of C&D’s regarding derivative and transformative works of cartoon/comic characters is that Jim Davis is not only a fan but they did a book together. Very cool of Jim…as Dan points out the whole idea isn’t new, although the idea of…