let's see art: pop to popism & chuck close exhibition

So my art class had a fun excursion this December to see these Pop to Popism and Chuck Close. (LOL um if they somehow found my blog and are reading this - hi guys?) I count these as the first two exhibitions I've seen because the ones I've seen before were in Year 8, I wasn't that interested in art and we had to fill out booklets for school the whole time which cut out the time to actually appreciate the works.
Yeah, school kills everything.

Pop to Popism

No pictures were allowed in this exhibition, unfortunately, but OH MY GOODNESS WE SAW REAL, AUTHENTIC, GENUINE ANDY WARHOL AND ROY LIECHTENSTEIN AND ALL THEM PEOPLE STUFF.

Pop art, so seemingly ordinary but so influential

My friend and I literally stood there going "OH. MY. GOSH." My favourites had to be the wonky chair, Warhol's stuff and... Actually, I forget (not surprisingly, since I have a short attention span and a habit of being forgetful).

But let me tell you, it was amazing. My friends and I judged so hard, though, when we saw the lead pencil still on many of the canvases. Like excuse, we would lose so many marks if that was in our school-assessed work. Of course we were offended by the lead pencil.

Click HERE for a link to the gallery's pop art website for the exhibition. Go and educate your way to pop. 


Chuck Close

Yo Chuck Close, how on earth can you paint this? Oh right, talent.

The story of Chuck Close goes like this: This American ex-photorealist is face blind and after being paralysed BOOM he starts doing some funky work in a wheelchair like in the picture on the left.

What amazed me was seeing the progress of a professional artist. There were scraps of things, a gazillion sketches and so many revisions shown in the exhibition and the sequence in which Chuck Close made his works.

(I didn't take many pictures because my friend was doing all of that.)

Other notable things that we saw in other exhibitions we went in to kill time

• Cindy Sherman 
• Really graphic works that I never want to see again
• People laughing for hours wearing funny suits
• Jackson Pollock
• Basketballs suspended in a tank
• Awesome solar etching 

So yes, this is a great exhibition. If Pop to Popism or Chuck Close are popping into your town, I say go see them!

Over and out
xx
Cece