Pop Art Paintings
(collection of paintings that Natasha could clearly label as Pop Art)
"Pop art is the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!"
Robert Indiana
"Pop art is about liking things."
Andy Warhol
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Although I classify a lot of my artwork as pop art, I concider a few of my paintings as more 'pop-artish' than the rest. Most of them I've created back in college and they are a good representation of my taste in art at that time. I've always been influenced by the things I enjoyed in life. As a child I would go to see an opera with my mother and an hour after we came back she would find me writing a libretto for an opera of my own, which I would later perform for her and my grandmother. After I discovered George Simenon I started writing detective stories. After visiting a museum of Fine Arts I opened up my own mini-museum inside a glass bookshelf and so on. My mother found my creative endevours quite amuzing and although she also made fun of some of them, (which I forgive her as would anybody who ever heard me sing), I never felt discouraged to pursue all artistic venues that interested me.
I kept my ability to be influenced by everything around me into my adulthood, but I started having doubts as to whether it was a positive quality or just something that distracted me from my goals. After all it's hard to stay on course if you're constantly compelled to do everything from embroydering to gardening. As one would expect, I became concerned that I was as unfocused in my art as I was in my life. I was a surrealist one day and a pop artist the next. I became afraid that I was spreading myself too thin until I realized that since I was only following what came to me naturally it must mean that I was doing exactly what I was suppose to do in this life. I came to terms with being all over the artistic spectrum and I can't wait to discover more things to be inspired by.
