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"POP ART"
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(Impressions on George Seurat) |
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| The goal of any balloon artist is to create a recognizable likeness and image of something that already exists. My goal, as a balloon artist, was to use balloons to create a memorable art piece that goes beyond the traditional "balloon dog". In this piece, I explore the area of "pop culture" by using 8,460 hand rolled balloons to create a portion of a famous George Seurat painting. It is almost to scale with the original Seurat painting. History: Neo-Impressionist, George Seurat is credited with creating pointillism (a form of art that uses painted dots of color to blend into a recognizable image). In this work, I make my own impression on Seurat's most famous work "Sunday on LaGrande Jatte" using each balloon to create a "dot". Then those series of dots create the image similar to Seurat's painting. I see this as an impression of an impressionist, using pointillism style to illustrate pointillism and a balloon artist making balloon art. Even a pun is created by the fact that famous art is called "Pop Art" and art made from balloons can "pop". |
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FUN FACTS ABOUT "POP ART"
(it consists of:) 8,640 hand rolled balloons 72 days to make 7 feet tall 3 feet wide 94 pounds |
