Professor Balthazar

Edited by Alucard - December 18 2008 at 14:14

I am glad you like it Bern...

Edited by Alucard - December 19 2008 at 12:04

Alucard wrote: I am glad you like it Bern... ...it's obviously not the critical side of popart and but the graphic use of effects like oversized letters, flashy colours, and the surreal, psychedelic side that was a big influence on pop art.... like in Yellow Submarine BTW   PS I have to review more episodes, but from memory I would say there was also a light anti-establishment (anti consumerism ) feeling,, [look at his episode where a farmer produces only tiny vegetables and he gets only "tiny" money for them  and he can only buy tiny clothes for his daughters and with the help of Balthazar he produces these oversized vegatbles and becomes rich, kind of a caricature of capitalism ] joining  the pop-art ideas....

Thanks for clearing your point up. I thought more about early american pop art and I couldn't see much influence. That was my mistake. It was clearly more influenced by the english (and european as a whole) pop art (aesthetics side). Now, I see what you mean. I noticed the graphic use of letterings and the use of "printed" like backgrounds but that's all I saw as pop art influences. I forgot about the psychedelic side of british pop art which I never really put in the pop art category. It's funny I'm the one arguing cause I really don't like to categorize things. I see it now anyway.

I have yet to see that episode. I'll check it out thanks.