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Origins of Trash Design
in the Pop-Art Movement

Certainly, trash design owes much of its existence to the originator of pop art, Andy Warhol.
 

The idea of making art out of ordinary objects began in the 1960s when Warhol decided that a photograph of a heap of soup cans, and variations on the original photograph,
could be pleasing aesthetic objects.
 

While Warhol’s plastic works have some valuable artistic merit, one needs just to watch his film productions to realized what I’m talking about.
 

As a comparison, I would take Kenneth Anger as a film-maker over good old Andy any day. Except maybe for Warhol’s “Frankenstein”.

Pop-Art Intervened: Punk Art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Soon after pop art was created, roughly a decade later, artists in the US and the UK picked up the torch and deformed the original concept.
 

Punk artists like Jamie Reid changed the concept of pop art so much, so drastically, so that punk art can stand on itself as an artistic style that doesn’t need to be classified as a sub-branch of pop.
 

It certainly is not as pretentious as pop, nor it has its innocence and naivete. Punk art was, since its inception, always very polarizing, shocking, ironic, and subversive.

It’s certainly a far cry from Warhol’s politically correct pop.
 

Appropriated by the Fart-Eating Crowd

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By fart-eating crowd, I mean the conditioned group of those who LARP to be artists, and do it with taxpayer’s money, or with daddy’s money.

I will never forget once when I visited a trash art installation in an art gallery, made by pupils of a state university.
 

To me, what I saw there was a revolting, stupid thing without any kind of substance, just an exercise in bad taste and wasting of space and other resources.
 

I felt zero aesthetic pleasure while experiencing it. The only thing I felt was the feeling that I was wasting my time watching it and that it annoyed me to have walked down a flight of stairs and a good fifty yards in the gallery, to just witness what I was seeing.

Returned to where It Belongs

 

If anything, the new iteration of trash art and trash design should be retained by the masses connected to the internet.

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We have a long list of art disciplines that can be considered trash design:

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• Glitch Design

• Vaporwave Design

• Retrowave Design

• And the list goes on...