By Irene Servecia y Cerveza
March, 2017
Regardless of eventual outcome, the Popko contribution,begins with The Popko Manifesto and photographs of his art.
“The Popko Manifesto
There is such a thing as progress in the visual arts. Photography was progress over painting in It’s more accurate representations, cost savings on materials, temporal efficiency , and expansion of the field of artists. While photography is the most obvious example, there are other kinds of progress. Take the path pioneered by, M. Rothko, who discovered that painting two or three rectangles stacked on a rectangular canvas, kind of like a two paneled door, was great art. Who knew?
The next step in progress along this artistic path is evident in my work and the work of my disciples Judko and Abeko.. Instead of wasting all that time painting, we can simply use scissors to sculpt construction paper rectangles on a larger construction paper rectangular sheet to create the same basic beauty, with the added efficiencies of more rapid production (which allows for increased exploration of color permutations), ending waste of petroleum based paint, as well as the production of pieces that can meet society uses, such as bookmarks and beautiful post-it arrangements. Witness the progress and the beauty:
P. Popko
And look for our new line of Popko business cards.”
As things stand at this writing
It is sad to report that Popko’s career is now paused, due to his despair over the defection of one disciple and accusation of plagiarism against the other. The former, Judeko, after one promising work, rejected Popko’s guidance. When it came time to chose the colors for his second piece he loudly whined “ I want to play with crayons.” Then, proving the inauthernticity of his objection, he accepted a color pencil, not a crayon, for his next piece. Perhaps, even more disturbing was the revelation that Abeko’s one piece was mostly constructed by a technician who had claimed to be a loyal member of the Popko team, as Abeko sat on her lap. Madame XK is suspected of being that technician.
Just prior to gong into seclusion Popko did manage to complete the following works, so reflective of his despair.
Figure 1 Two Works of Despair
Some of Popko’s Earlier work
Figure 2 Pure Popko
Figure 3 Miniatures with Popko Post-it (for contrast)
Fig 4 Popkos on Back of Biblical Atlas
Fig 5 3 Post-It Popkos
Fig 6 Judko and Abeko, Sob
Fig 7 Popko Wrapped – Rights to photograph are in litigation among Xkanazy, Xista and likely Popko (when he comes out of his depression.)
Popko Recovers
December, 2017
Good news! No GREAT NEWS! Our beloved Popko is back. In one of the rare moments during his depression when he was not immoble, he was stumbling around his studio, and in a little used corner (it is a huge place, since he creates on huge canvases before he refines his work into their tinier final form) he fell upon two works by his protégé Judeko. It seems that rather than giving up on his talent the mercurial Judeko just branched off, extending from both the inspiration of his mentor Popko and the master Twomky. I won’t bother to tell you which of the pieces below is an extension of which master, it is obvious. Not as obvious to some was Popko’s reaction. He is soaring, he now sees that his young disciple has taken flight with his own genius..
So inspired, Popko has not only begun to work again, but he planning on inviting commissions. He is eager to have connoisseurs see this forthcoming announcement in his own web site.
Copyright Howard Lipke on behalf of ISyC and P. Popko etc 2017