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Originally posted by Rihhyonce
Art does not have to be groundbreaking, revolutionary, or push boundaries. The only stipulation that defines art is that it is created with the purpose of evoking an emotion or reaction.
Lady Gaga can write an entire thesis about how ARTPOP is inspired by Koons and Da Vinci or whatever references she wants to pull, but that still doesn't make her any "more" of an artist than any of her peers.
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This.
Modern art (it's already 100 year old) is nothing more than a statement. It started with mocking with art by submitting urinal (toilet), a bicycle wheel mounted on a chair,... to exhibitions.
Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel
It doesn't has to be beautiful, complicated, referencing to something,... Just a statement.
Everybody can try adding some random references or difficult words to their homework. I see the aimless babbling without any structure, cohesion or understanding.
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Pop art employs aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects. It is widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of abstract expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.[3] And due to its utilization of found objects and images it is similar to Dada. Pop art is aimed to employ images of popular as opposed to elitist culture in art, emphasizing the banal or kitschy elements of any given culture, most often through the use of irony.[2] It is also associated with the artists' use of mechanical means of reproduction or rendering techniques. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_art
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I see Katy as the reaction to artists taking pop too serious, trying to look sophisticated, elitist behaviour,... She sees herself as a cartoon character on stage, used banal, kitschy objects on stage, pin up girl look in OOTB era, isn't afraid to release dated music if she feels the need to do so, folding toilet paper in Roar lyric video
(can't get more banal, everyday than that),...
She and her fanbase doesn't force people to see deeper meaning in everything. Some fans see a meaning, a concept,... behind the face value, some fans don't. We are free to experience our fave not the same way as others in our fanbase.
Gaga is the opposite of the spirit of pop art and likes to bring art references into pop. I'm sure she knows that and reverse the words pop art to artpop.
Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl
The suicidal thoughts in I'm Still Breathing from OOTB and the blue wig might be influenced by this.
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There is very little negative critical commentary specifically addressing Drowning Girl. However, in the early 1960s Lichtenstein's theme of comics-based work was hotly debated. In a 1963 New York Times article, Brian O'Doherty wrote that Lichtenstein's work was not art, saying Lichtenstein was "one of the worst artists in America" who "briskly went about making a sow's ear out of a sow's ear."[9] This was part of a widespread debate about the merits of Lichtenstein's comic blow-ups as true art. In January 1964 Life ran a story under the title "Is He the Worst Artist in the U.S.?" on this controversy.[42] Later reviews were much kinder and Todd Brewster noted that this may have been motivated by popular demand saying in Life in 1986 that "Those cartoon blowups may have disturbed the critics, but collectors, tired of the solemnity of abstract expressionism, were ready for some comic relief. Why couldn't the funny pages be fine art?"[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning_Girl
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Nothing new that people debate whether it's art or not art. When enough people start liking it, the consensus can change.
Critics might be stuck in their old world view or afraid to like new things because of looking bad in the eyes of their peers. They did a sorry-that-we-didn't-recognized-you-tribute to Bob Marley 22 years after his death.