Post #302403 by Gromit_Fan on Fri, Apr 27, 2007 8:47 PM

Sell out? No - sorta' - maybe - who knows- even possible?

Verging on over saturation of the marketplace? Possibly-Probably.

I have only seen the trailer for the film, but Patton Oswald
says something that rings true for me and my feelings:
Shag's art is la joie de vie - the joy of life.

When I look at Shag's work, it makes me laugh and smile.
It makes me all-too-aware of lost "golden days" of my 1960-1970's childhood,
but also puts a spin on all that which is entirely modern and fun.

Will Shag's work be as "dated looking" and be reviled as the last
artist collected en mass like this, Patrick Nagel, when
20 years have passed?

Maybe, but somehow I doubt it.

(Even with his sucess, Shag is still not "on the radar" of the
average person the way Nagel was back in the 1980s, and that is probably
a very good thing and will help keep the work from being
seen as "oh so 2005" in 20 years.)

Either way, his work will still make me smile.

And really, that is all I care about.

:)

[ Edited by: Gromit_Fan 2007-04-27 20:59 ]