Pattern

When walking into this exhibition my first immediate thoughts were that the world goes pop was wacky random and completely unrelated. My thoughts then went to thinking about each room as an individual instead of the artwork as an individual or the whole exhibition as an individual. Each room either followed a theme or an artist. This is what lead me to think about each room as an individual. 

 

This exhibition was a host to paintings and sculptures and video artwork. The themes as I have already mentioned were different in each room. Room One was the introduction to the rest of the exhibit as it introduced the contexts and themes explored in the rest of the exhibition. Room two was focused on Eulalia Grau and joe Wilson. I didn't understand what this room's artwork was meant to represent as such I did not like this room. 

 

The Third room was about Pop Politics. This Room was addressing political issues and as politics doesn't interest me I didn't pay attention to this room. Room number 4 was about Cornel Brudaşcu. The 1970s saw Romania open up to international exchange to a certain degree (though travel to the West was banned). Counter-culture, music and art influences could be experienced through Western magazines. Cornel Brudaşcu’s work from the early 1970s reflects these conditions. 

 

Room number 5 was about Pop at home. This room interested me as it was creative yet also as crazy. This room contained a range of different artwork but all the artwork was focused on either the change in the role of women or the role of a man. Room 6 was about Pop Bodies and as the name suggests the artwork was associated with different body parts. 

 

The list continues but I found that as I went through the exhibition I found each room weirder than the next. Personally and Emotiocnally I was very distant from all the themes at this exhibition which mean that I didn't connect with any of the themes. Personally, I felt that it wasn't artwork at all. I had no favorite piece of work and the majority of the artwork left me confused, although one particular piece left me very confused. 

 

The piece labeled fallout by Kiki Kogelnik c.1964 left by with no understanding of the piece even after the short explanation of intentions. I was unsure what this artwork was meant to mean or signify and I still feel this way. It was said that Kogelnik developed a visual language characterized by weightlessness and the flattening of the human figure.

 

This can be seen in Fallout where a human silhouette floats in a cosmic landscape. The work was meant to allude to the presence of humans in space but also to the loss of the individual self within a consumer society. Its title was also to suggest the aftermath of some cataclysmic nuclear event.

 

I was inspired by the work at this exhibit as it helped me to realize that art is purely subjective and that art might look aesthetically unpleasing to me but it might be aesthetically pleasing to someone else, It has inspired me to continue with my work no matter what anyone says about it because I enjoy this work. I would recommend this to a friend because I believe this to be a very inspiring piece of work and They might find the artwork in this exhibition to be very aesthetically pleasing.