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PLOP, YOU SAY?
Plop Art Glossary
Plop Spot:
Official Plop Art dealership (art gallery or store)
Plopulated Area:
City, neighborhood, town or region in which all Plop Art are listed to determine the local average value (Plopex)
Plopex:
The "Plop Exchange Rate", the local average value of all Plop Art in a same Plopulated Area (city, neighborhood, town or region), including owned artworks' current value and unsold new artworks' minimum price
Flip Plop:
Re-sell a Plop
Plop-Up:
Increase Plop value
Plop Drop:
Decrease of the Plopex
Initial Plop Offering:
Registered initial price paid for a new Plop artwork
Ploposal:
Purchase proposal made to a Plop Art owner
Deeplop:
High-value Initial Plop Offering
Pumplop:
Frequent re-sale of a Plop, to increase its value
Sleeplop:
A Plop held dormant, not re-sold until Plopex reaches a high value
Start-Plop:
First Plop in a collection
Over-tech / Off-tech:
A life pattern or artistic action that involves way too much dependence on technology (Over-tech) or a mostly complete absence of technology (Off-tech)
Plopping Around:
Behaving without purpose or awareness
Plopping It:
"Plopping it" can have two opposite meanings:
1) Doing something quickly, immediately, without much creative intent or thought, improvising in-the-moment (or "carelessly winging it"). Often used to describe a strictly commercial, or unintelligent, or overly-technological creative process.
2) Doing something artistically, with a strong creative intent and deep thoughts that are concentrated in an improvised, unprepared, immediate moment in order to channel a maximum of raw intuitive force. Often used to describe an artist's use of the "automatic subconscious" in a meaningful creative process.
Loplop:
Imaginary familiar animal, or surreal "spirit" animal, daydreamt for personal use by Plop artists and Plop collectors. A Loplop harnesses the powers of imagination to bring life advice, situational comments and unbelievable luck.
Loplop was originally a birdlike character featured in prints, collages and paintings by artist Max Ernst, pioneer of the Dada and surrealist movements. Loplop was an alter ego which Ernst developed and functioned as a familiar animal, sometimes in the role of a narrator and commentator.
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