Pop art (or plonk art) is a pejorative slang term for public art (usually large, abstract, modernist or contemporary sculpture) made for government or corporate plazas, spaces in front of office buildings, skyscraper atriums, parks, and other public venues.
The term is a form of wordplay from the term POPart and connotes that the work is unattractive or inappropriate to its surroundings – that it has been thoughtlessly "plopped" where it lies.
The term "plop" suggests the sound of something falling heavily and suddenly. It also holds connotations to excrement.
Some defenders of public art funding have tried to reappropreate the term. The book; Plop: Recent Projects of the Public Art Fund celebrates the success of the Public Art Fund in financing many publicly placed works of art over the last few decades, many of which are now beloved, though they may at first have been derided positively as "ploppings". Ron Robertson-Swann's VAULT (AKA YELLOWperil) being a case in point.
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HOWEVER, in 1933, at the height of the European avant-garde, amidst a constant need to create new works to shock the public, Piero Manzoni was born. This Italian artist became one of the most innovating and representative characters of the conceptual movement. Brimming with creativity, his works were full of absurd images loaded with irony and social commentary.
He believed the artist was not intended to be a supreme, untouchable figure. Through his anthropomorphic creations, silhouettes of strange objects, surfaces covered in gesso, or even line drawings rolled up into cardboard tubes, he paved the way for a world where the normal was becoming passé. He found his place in the art world through the conceptual.
He believed the artist was not intended to be a supreme, untouchable figure. Through his anthropomorphic creations, silhouettes of strange objects, surfaces covered in gesso, or even line drawings rolled up into cardboard tubes, he paved the way for a world where the normal was becoming passé. He found his place in the art world through the conceptual.
THE ARTworld is RHIZOMATIC
In the rhizome, one is always in the middle, in the process of becoming. The quote from A Thousand Plateaus, "In the rhizome, one is always in the middle, in the process of becoming," encapsulates the essence of the rhizomatic philosophy proposed by Deleuze and Guattari.
No inside or outside, no upper or below, no in or out. One is in the world being ... human
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