I get really excited when I feel like mainstream or slightly alternative companies are tapping into my core knowledge and love for high culture and fine art. It’s like they’re PAYING ATTENTION and finally realizing who they’re main audience is (me). It’s like a silly inside joke that only WE get (me and the advertisers). [...]
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Part of my research for my thesis in Creative Visual Studies entails looking at art that appropriates canonical works that have preceded it. Many artists often borrow the language of artists who have come before them to comment on the political undertones of where art has been and where it lies stagnant today. Here is an obvious [...]
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