Pure Products Of America Go Crazy Analysis

Art exhibitions are but a manifestation of the of the artist and what an artist produces specific art in order to provoke certain emotions or feelings to their audience. Artists have put their paintings, photographs, designs, on display for the world to critique and to judge; although this does not necessarily have to mean that the critique they are giving is negative. Artists develop certain themes and patterns in their art in order to evoke feelings and emotions that will draw more people to their exhibits and therefore audiences can acquire a thirst for what it is that artists produce. A recent gallery at the University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography had an exhibit on display titled, “The Pure Products of America Go Crazy”

In most cases such as this particular exhibit, gallery settings are the sentiments of the work and intensify the meanings that are being portrayed in the art. In the case of Lucas Blalock, there were photos that he took and displayed that had pictures of hot dogs, pork, beef, and chicken mashups throughout the exhibit and what is really trying to be portrayed by these radical combinations of proteins about America? The Unite States is known to be the country with the highest rates of obesity and so perhaps Blalock deemed it necessary to portray the number one increasing problem within the country. The theme of

I understood that were pictures that had no real significance and that I was only there to waste my time and there was nothing really to gain from this experience. As a reporter for the Daily Wildcat I was able to sit in on the panel where Blalock discussed the meanings of his photographs and that was when I ideally made the connection that this exhibit had much more significance to it then I had originally planned. These largely framed printed of multiple empty spaces demonstrated the processed involved in the production of the art of an image, by attending the exhibition you will understand that photography is a residual medium meant to entice the public, sort of like what a hot dog does to the United States, it entices