When I hear an old hindi song played on loud speakers a rush of despise takes over me. And then after several suppressed grunts, I realize that it was the same song my mom very intently made me listen to in the car when I was, I guess, 10years old, on one of our annual trips to Kulu Manali. But now I am programed to not display any amount of affiliation to hindi songs because of the percept that alternative is cool, popular is NOT.
We, in our quest for individualism, like to segregate ourselves from the herd. We have tendencies to deviate from the general consensus to prove the point of our aberrational behavior. We refrain from providing any sort of benefits of the doubt to popular forms of art and in the process, even develop a strong aversion to it without venturing into much reasoning. We like to hate Britney, Titanic and The Da Vinci Code even before we really scale them thoroughly. Our attention deficits only but help us achieve this.
Like Rachel, we all have movies that we say we like and movies that we actually like. We update our orkut and facebook profiles the way we want others to look at us, seldom the way we really are. Britney gets replaced with Bjork. Titanic with Citizen Kane and Da Vinci with The Fountainhead.
Pop becomes synonymous with pedestrian. And pedestrian with the proletarian. Proletarians aren’t the rebels. And this goes against the DNA of our young blood corpuscles.
So we forsake pop for alternative. And we keep refining ourselves. Keep specifying ourselves. Keep defining ourselves. Dictating our hearts to succumb to the impositions of our conditioned minds. Forgetting that the only dictatorship our choices are subject to is that of the heart’s.
art - blue shot Marilyn, of Marilyn Monroe Pop Art collection
artiste - Andy Warhol
url - http://fits.depauw.edu/aharris/Courses/Stolen/FinalProjects/RHARPER/_images/Marilyn.jpg
additional url - http://www.webexhibits.org/colorart/marilyns.html
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egun in the late 1950s, Pop Art in America was given its greatest impetus during the 1960s. By this time, American advertising had adopted many elements and inflections of modern art and functioned at a very sophisticated level. Consequently, American artists had to search deeper for dramatic styles that would distance art from the well-designed and clever commercial materials. [5] As the British viewed American popular culture imagery from a somewhat removed perspective, their views were often instilled with romantic, sentimental and humorous overtones. By contrast, American artists being bombarded daily with the diversity of mass produced imagery, produced work that was generally more bold and aggressive.
As we replace things, wouldn't that be a transition? We as civilization need to move on !! As a means of progression. If Titanic cannot replace citizen kane, or vice versa, then would a monument-like San Fransisco bridge or the golden gate replace the angel statute in Central park. It is just like one century turns into another millennium, the world shrugs off a thing to into its archive only to replace it with another.
As I say, it is a cycle of pretension. Closer home - madhubala is a classic example - would that be replaced by madhuri nene? I guess time shall tell. Archive or Not - Some things change the world and we define the change only to realize that was not a change.
Confusing ? Well, so is time - let us divide past, present, future - today only for tomorrow ....
Hugs
R/
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