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David King

5 Years Ago

Help Me Name This Art Style!

I've been working hard lately on a new style of automotive pop art that I think could gain a following, there are growing indications that there is interest. No sales on FAA yet, but several elsewhere, (I am now in the female apparel market!) I'd like to brand this style but I am at a loss for what to call it. I want a name that indicates the subject is transportation and somehow illustrates its vibrant and colorful nature. Here is the link to the collection;

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/11-david-king.html?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=786204

I'm talking specifically about the art with the brushstroke backgrounds, not the rectangles.


So, you got any ideas?

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Ronald Walker

5 Years Ago

Auto pops. Carism. Spontaneous transportation. I tried! Love the work in any case!

 

Mary Bedy

5 Years Ago

Maybe use an acronym: APA - Automotive Pop Art. Too vague?

Whatever, you come up with, I'm a big fan! I can see this taking off, David.

 

Becky Titus

5 Years Ago

Driven To Abstraction

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

dabbling in automotive
transporting into a new palette? a bit long
auto expressions



---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Rudi Prott

5 Years Ago

Not new. It looks absolutely like a serigraphy of Andy Warhol (even when made digitally).

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

stuccarto sort of like stucco and car?

it has a fresco look

auto fresco


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

CAR SHOTS

HOT CAR SHOTS

AUTO MAGIC

AUTOIMAGINATIONS

 

Lise Winne

5 Years Ago

I can see this kind of thing selling well on tee-shirts to autophiles. Pillows and totes too. This is the kind of art that can transcend the wall.

I can see these kinds of images selling well at antique auto shows too.

Anyway, I would have tag words like autophile, vintage car pop art, classic car pop art, Andy Warhol, car show posters, tee shirts, tote bags -- perhaps list the products that have the most sale-ability.

For a brand name, how about Autophile Pop Art?

For "vintage car popart" on google (in images):

https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+car+pop+art&rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS566US566&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMmuLbwtnbAhWH3YMKHQDWD-wQ_AUICigB&biw=1137&bih=735

For "classic car pop art" on google:
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS566US566&biw=1137&bih=735&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=TbYlW7PrBcbZjwTi2JAo&q=classic+car+pop+art&oq=classic+car+pop+art&gs_l=img.1.0.0.64399.66180.0.68123.7.7.0.0.0.0.94.488.7.7.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.2.141...0i8i7i30k1.0.YIhK1-og2n8

 

Lise Winne

5 Years Ago

I like Roger's ideas for a classier descriptive name, but telling what it is directly may get more visibility on Google.

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

automotive expressions - make it a bit longer


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Lise Winne

5 Years Ago

An idea to make these images stand out from others working along the same line is to have a character that is distinctly yours, sitting in the front seat of some of these autos. Then your work would be instantly recognizable because they'd associate your work with the figure. It becomes something else other than automobile pop art (though if I were you, I might want to pursue both, with and without the figure).

Just an idea ...

(former art teacher here)

I guess I'm thinking along the lines of famous artists like Philip Guston who used a Klu Klux Clan figure doing every-day things (and is recognized for his style based on that):

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS566US566&biw=1137&bih=735&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=AbklW56BK6KkjwTMmLzABw&q=Philip+Guston+klu+klux+clan&oq=Philip+Guston+klu+klux+clan&gs_l=img.12...764019.777507.0.779396.27.23.0.4.4.0.154.1778.22j1.23.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.14.843...0j0i67k1j0i10i67k1.0.gY5yHmkFPCg

Or Willem DeKoonings woman paintings (which all have a distinctive style):

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1OPRB_enUS566US566&biw=1137&bih=735&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=ubwlW8ixJeSPjwS226yQDQ&q=willem+de+kooning+woman+paintings&oq=willem+de+kooning+women&gs_l=img.1.2.0i10k1l3.5444.8538.0.12283.6.6.0.0.0.0.223.575.5j0j1.6.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.6.574...0j0i67k1.0.nakYso581kI

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

Googled my 4

Only Hot Car Shots, (hotcarshots.com) is available...the other 3 are taken.

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

Auto Imprints (autoimprints.com is available)

 

Val Arie

5 Years Ago

David, I don't know what to call it but it is very cool!

 

David Bridburg

5 Years Ago

Fauvist Pop Art

Dave

 

Ed Meredith

5 Years Ago

Vehicul-art

 

Jim Whalen

5 Years Ago

Uber Chroma

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Ron, I like the word play, in particular "spontaneous transportation", not so much as a brand, but I'll try to use it in the ad copy somehow.

Mary, thanks for your comments on my images. Acronyms are convenient but probably not often good for branding though, that is unless the acronym is also a word.

Mike, I like auto expressions or automotive expressions but those domains are taken.

Rudy, I don't claim to be original, though I don't believe I've ever seen the artwork you are referring to. I did a search and I really don't see much resemblance, of course Warhol was the original pop artist, any pop art is going to trace it's lineage to him. Again I don't claim to be original, just a little different. I do know I haven't seen anything quite like this for automotive art.

Lise, I understand what you are saying and that is an interesting idea, but figures just aren't my thing. You are right about "transcending the wall" with this, in fact my sale today was for a dress using the image in the OP. I also thought it might be a style that transcends "car guy" and might appeal generally to interior decorators that normally would not consider automotive art, I am seeing some evidence of that on Pinterest.

Thanks for reminding me Roger that I'd also like to have an available domain. I kind of like Auto Imprints but I'm not sure that one would stay on the brain.

Keep in mind that while most of these will be cars other things with wheels might enter the equation, in fact I'm currently working on a motorcycle image, so maybe something slightly more general using wheels or some kind of action. For example, "rollingexpressions.com" is available, but like Lise suggests, something less specific like that might not be good for Google, but I doubt anything that would be Google optimal would be available.

Keep 'em coming guys.


 

Kathy Anselmo

5 Years Ago

Pop art, it's been around for years. Andy Warhol would be proud.

 

David Bridburg

5 Years Ago

DK

Ride Pop Art is available as a dot com

Dave

 

Bill Tomsa

5 Years Ago

Combination of Expressionism and Automobile

EXPRAUTOISM

Sounds rather european, no?

Bill Tomsa

https://billtomsa.blogspot.com/

 

Ed Meredith

5 Years Ago

I think you have to wear leather and a harness for that Bill... lol

 

David King

5 Years Ago

DB, interesting idea but I want something a little more specific to my style, I know, that's tough one.

Bill, that hurts my brain just trying to figure out how to pronounce it. lol

 

David Bridburg

5 Years Ago


EXPRAUTOISM

Sounds rather european, no?

Bill,

I bet your good mod totally denies this.

Dave

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Edward Fielding

5 Years Ago

Pop

 

David Bridburg

5 Years Ago

DK,

How about an entirely made up word, like with a new pharma drug?

Clutcherz.com available

PopxArt.com available

CarzRide.com available

Dave

HotzRide.com as well

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

BTW, isn't there a dot biz or something?

Transmission... oh, othermind.

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Okay DB, how about rapsadoodle or razmatagic? Blasferrfic? Colotastophy? Mmmm….I'm thinking not. lol Maybe if I had the marketing resources to pound a nonsensical word into people's heads in TV ads that would be an option, but since it's just poor little ol' me here it needs to be something easily recognizable and easily remembered.

 

J L Meadows

5 Years Ago

Autopop.

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

Cyancylinders

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

Hot Wheels Images (hotwheelsimages.com) available

Hot Wheels Art (hotwheelsart.com) will cost you $2,500

Pop Wheels. (popwheels.com) will cost you $2,288

Wheels Pop (wheelspop.com) available

Auto Pop Art (autopopart.com) IS available

 

Cynthia Decker

5 Years Ago

I'm with Roger and JL.

Auto Pop Art.

Says what it is, easy to say, memorable.

 

David King

5 Years Ago

I'm a simple guy so I can appreciate the simplicity of that name, I'll have to try it on some non-artists at work and see how they react.

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Okay, now I'm having ideas for this style with non transportation subjects so I'm not sure an automotive theme name would be ideal. What do you think of "Pop Art Expressions"? Nobody has already suggested that one have they?

 

Val Arie

5 Years Ago

LOL I wondered when it might hit you that you came up with a very cool style.

Pop Art Expressions is a good name But I'm confused as to what you are doing with this new name? For a .com or rebranding yourself? Or ...

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

you could imply mechanical while not being.

The word Crank, Cranked, Cranky.

CrankedPopArtistry

Crank it up and crank it out!

For what it is worth... the word "Pop" with "Art" implies a can of Campbell's tomato soup. It implies a Lichtensteinian comic print style.

I don't (personally) get that vibe from the technique you are employing.

Cranked Art! it's in your nervous system. Like the meth the motorcycle gangs used to smuggle in their crankcase. It's like Ike and Tina, "We never ever do NOTHIN, Nice...and Easy" It's more Blast or Blammo or Boom than pop.

It's not pop because it's not "Popular" because the popular kids don't wear stuff that explodes on the scene, not until it makes it to H&M. It's not pop because it isn't soda pop. It's not diet pop, it's not sweet! It's sour! It has balls! It doesn't give a crap if you like it or not. You can't look away!

But that's the way I see the work. It might not be your intention at all.

Look at the VW. That's what stuff looks like when you've been up for 5 days straight! You went from bucolic scenes of cars rotting in a field. You have cranked that up! You have yanked the motor and now you're dropping a Hemi in back of a "Magic Bus!" pop? That's for sicles, and the sticks they come with.

 

Patricia Strand

5 Years Ago

I like PopArtExpressions or how about PopArtExpress?

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Val, my intent is to brand the art, (not me) and also have a dot.com with the same name.

Uther, I like Cranked! I'll have to consider some variations of that. As to whether it's pop art, well, if it's not pop art what is it? I personally believe pop art is the closest classification that fits.

Patricia, interesting variation, but for some reason it doesn't agree with me, I don't know why.

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

It's Rebel Art.

I know nothing about art classification. Period.

I was always under the impression that the pop art scene was about using the art of the everyday to redefine art in that it said, you're missing the trees for the forest. Hence Lichtenstein used the impression of institutional printing techniques to take the artist out of the equation (If I understand it correctly, his objective was to create an image that didn't look like it was painted. And Warhol, well, I always thought that was what the can of soup was about sort of like here's a 3D still life of a tomato (post processing).

So that you are depicting the art of cars and hotrods (which are a work of art on a work of art on a work of art) but you're delivering it with a punch in solar plexus.

As I say, I know not. But then you're trying to classify your own style, to resonate with people who know even less than I.

I see it as a guy who was listening to Hank Williams Sr. and then flipped on some Jimi, and want to pass him off as Pop Music.

 

David King

5 Years Ago

I wouldn't call it rebel art, even if that was a classification, I'm not rebelling against anything.

The dictionary definition of "pop art"

"art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values."

What has more to do with modern culture than the automobile? I guess you could say this style flies in the face of traditional fine art values as well, or at the very least it's definitely not traditional art.

 

Uther Pendraggin

5 Years Ago

You're right.

 

Val Arie

5 Years Ago

Thank you David. I agree with Uther about the pop art. The thing is it is somewhat like pop art but then not. When I think pop art I don't expect to see what you are doing. It makes me wonder if you are doing yourself a disservice by calling it that?

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Val, if you want your art to be found in the internet it has to be classified in a way people are familiar with and "pop art" is as close as my art gets to that. I understand what you are saying, my style is definitely not Warholian which is what most people expect to see which is understandable because he created the genre, but it's not the only style of pop art.

The funny thing here is you and Uther say it's not pop art but Rudi claimed I was copying Warhol and Cynthia was calling it expressionism. No matter how I classify it I won't make everybody happy.

 

Val Arie

5 Years Ago

LOL you are right about that. Well what ever you end up with it is still great! It will be fun to see what else you do with it.

 

Jim Whalen

5 Years Ago

Pop & Roll Art

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

Back after a day away.

Uther has changed my thinking

"POP ART" is regressive

Also I'm now in the thinking that keeping in the automotive category may be limiting..

So, I'm recconsidering

"Color Splash" or "Color Blast"

Both domain names are taken

So....Color Splash Expressions (colorsplashexpressions.com) is available

 

Mike Savad

5 Years Ago

crusin' colors


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

 

Patricia Strand

5 Years Ago

I saw the word vibe this morning and thought that might work. Popvibe or something like that. PopArtVibes.

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

Patricia,

RE:.. "Vibe"

My thinking went to "Vibrations"

Then to

"Good Vibrations"......that of course was taken

Now I'm thinking of what would be a kick in the ass...and is available

"Pretty Good Vibrations"

 

Roger Swezey

5 Years Ago

David K,

RE:... " kick in the ass."

Maybe, I should be kicked in the ass, for this totally inappropriate name suggestions.

I never thought of it as being a serious suggestion.

And apologize to you and anyone else that thought it was

 

David Bridburg

5 Years Ago

Just my opinion, too many chefs in the kitchen crowd out the one person in the kitchen who is supposed to be cooking.

DK, I know you are asking for help. I just think a cook who messes up a dish needs to experiment with cooking the dish a few more times....on their own.

Good luck with it,

Dave

 

David King

5 Years Ago

Well DB, I do think this discussion has run it's course and I do appreciate everybody's input.

Thanks again everybody.

 

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