Pop Art Shows: art for the people, pop by the people

Pop Art is a vision of democratized art within society. It is, in fact, the true future of art: art for the people, by the people.

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In the recent past, art production and ownership was naturally hindered by the physical limitations of the amount of art one could personally produce. This inspired artists like as Warhol to set up his Art Factory — a studio production team mainly producing screen prints of Andy’s original designs in the earlier years and a fully autonomous art machine in later years.

Pop emancipates art from the notion of the artist working in his studio and returns instead to an earlier model of the art studio collective producing art to order. That’s one reason why you see a strong Japanese presence of Ukiyo-e, Hanga and Manga in our archives.

Once was the time that every home was adorned with original art — from the first daubs on cave walls to the highly decorated homes of the Egyptians through to the intensely decorated artefacts of the Celts. Pop art in one sense has reduced art to the mundane (Warhol’s Campbell Soup can being an obvious example) and yet, simultaneously, elevated popular culture, media and celebrity itself to the lofty heights of art.

The most encouraging thing about pop art is the way it offers, at last, real art back to the people at a price every working man or woman can afford - a price dictated by the materials involved in its production only and free from the price hikes that galleries would make in order to preserve it for the elite.

At the Pop Art Machine, we present a conflicted set of Pop Art visions:

1) consecrate the pop aesthetic
2) destroy what you worship
3) abhor the copyright
4) abide the obliger

Through the millions of pages available at Pop Art Machine, we encourage you to download and produce works for your use, for sale, for rip off, for drab office walls, your dog, etc..

And as we press forward to bigger and better machine processes and interactive pop design tools, we ask that you help us only by spreading the word about our ideas and our web site. Link to http://popartmachine.com/ and download often!