Pop Art....Literally.

Walton Creel's Pop-Pop-Pop Art

Even though I probably wouldn't see an Art Showing of this type of art, I respect the meaning behind Creel's work. Creel states, "My main goal was to take the destructive power away from the gun. To manipulate the gun into a tool of creation and use it in a way that removed it from its original purpose..." Other artists have used guns in their work in other ways besides hunting. They have melted guns and shaped them differently or have taken photos using high speed film to capture a bullet in action hitting its target. When Creel first started using a gun in his work he wasn't sure what direction to take, but he knew he wanted to "deweaponize" the gun. The artist uses aluminum instead of canvas because the canvas would be too stressed with the amount of bullets he would shoot through it. He also paints the aluminum before shooting because when the gun fires it knocks off a little paint around the bullet holes, which adds something to each piece.