Artist Jeff Koons has a solo show opening at the Serpentine Gallery in London, including works from his Popeye series. “I watched Popeye when I was younger… I always see a little bit of my father in Popeye,” the American artist commented. Obviously Koons is not the first from the fine arts world to use comics as inspiration – Roy Lichtenstein springs to mind for his pop art comics work, which remains controversial with some comics artists who thought he merely copied their work with no permission or credit. Wherever you stand on that issue it does beg the question of what is art? If another artist creates a work inspired by a mass medium like a comic strip and its in a gallery is it ‘proper’ art now and if so what does that make the original comics artist’s work? Or is it just knocking off someone else’s hard work? Opens can of worms and steps back rapidly… (via the BBC)
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July 1st, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I’m going to see this tomorrow. Unfortunately, I don’t expect to see what his certainly currently his most relevant (and now no-doubt valuable) work – Michael “Jackson with his pet monkey Bubbles” – on display!