Art (and Artist) of the week - Wayne Edson Bryan / Neopop

This struck me as fascinating and absolutely brilliant . . .fearing the worst I wondered, pondered and kept coming back to this image and my concern about the format and medium used here obviously therefore checked it out . . . . . . pity other folks didn’t think to do the same!! As Wayne reports . . . . . . 

Wayne Edson Bryan

Wayne’s Instagram here

"When I first started posting these new neopop collages, I thought I’d leave the description OPEN and see what people’s reaction was to the images. Must everything must be explained, pigeonholed, categorised in advance of delivery to the public? I quickly learned that I was tapping into some very raw emotions. I recently had a few folks verbally attack me on Instagram because they thought I was using Al and pretending that I made it myself. They said they were sad for me because I had to lie and couldn’t make real art. They couldn't wrap their heads around anyone going through the effort to create something that resembled Al, but wasn't. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to tell them about Photorealism, trompe l'oeil, and come to think about it, a whole lotta other both high and low art history that's commenting on and/or portraying something that it's not. All of these hostile negative criticisms that I’ve been recently experiencing have me thinking that I’m on the right track." 

Genius!