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Originally posted by TheNight
You're not getting it. The whole point of ARTPOP was to bring art - or, perhaps more specifically, the idea of art - into the mainstream. Not only was she bringing awareness to a collection of famous works ( The Birth of Venus, Mona Lisa, and The Persistence of Memory, to name a few), but she was also trying to bring the very notion of why people create art in the first place into minds of your everyday individual. Her reasoning for it, in this particular case, was to release anger, to vent her rage in a constructive way, and to regain her figurative sanity. But she encouraged fans and non fans alike to find their own reasons to be creative, and to channel that creativity into their art. Many of you seem to think all she did was wear a few outfits with pretty paintings on it, and while on the surface it may seem so, there really is much more to it than just a nice look. Again, in doing these things she was attempting to bring the world of art into the mainstream and pop culture. (Thus "the reverse Warholian experience," as Warhol and other pop artists' goal was to do the exact opposite - to bring pop culture into the sphere of art - and thus the title ARTPOP, which is the reverse of pop art.) Could she have been a bit more clear and effective with her delivery of this theme of the album, perhaps incorporating some of these ideas into more of the songs themselves rather than primarily in the imagery surrounding the album? Yes of course - even I won't deny that. But if you actually do some digging, or really let the album and it's themes simmer inside you for a bit, it will make sense.
But that's not what you asked. Personally, I find myself very open to most art forms - however, I have a special place in my heart for surrealism in general (Dalí especially  ) and many of the works from the Renaissance period, along with various works of modern/contemporary art. I wouldn't say "she turned me on" to any of these, more so that she pointed them out to me. I was the one that formed the affinity - she just helped me to see the value in them in the first place. And contrary to what many of you are implying, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. |
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This is why they needed Taylor Swift to do it.