re: Spinoff thread: Jackson Pollock's artwork.

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You basing your likes and dislikes purely on the opinion of others is the other side of the same coin you call pretentious

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What the hell are you talking about? When did I say I like or dislike things only because others do? I said the opposite.

I don't succumb to peer pressure. Never have, never will. If I like something, I say so. Same if I dislike it, regardless of who else does.

Perhaps other people are like that too, just with different opinions from your own.

I might have misunderstood your fricky sentence about hating art that so many other people like but you don't. But you certainly let a concensus opinion affect how you view every person who has that opinion. If you can't see how pretentious that is, I don't know what to tell you.

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If you can't see how pretentious that is, I don't know what to tell you.

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I would say I'm more narrow minded, not pretentious.

Music is similar. I can see the appreciation of many different types of music, although I may not listen to alot of it.

Like jazz. Some is okay, but alot of jazz is just terrible. It has no rhythm or flow. It's like 5 different musicians playing a different song.

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I can see how someone like you would think so.

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How very pretentious of you. Thanks.

My older sister has a Masters in Fine Arts. Frida Kahlo is one of her favorites. I'm gonna have to ask her what she thinks about Pollock and Rothko. I value her opinion.

Do you have an art degree?

I don't know shot about fine art...bit If people are spending 50 million on a piece we should at least study it thoroughly...

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I admire your ability to argue your dislike for .....what.....9 hours now? Ha-ha..

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I'm tenacious.

Sorry about the insults, I can get a little fired up.

It's not so much my dislike of modern abstract art as it is the art world's ridiculous defense of it when it's criticized. It's always pretty much the standard answers you gave. "You don't understand it, you need to educate yourself, blah blah blah."

I'm just looking for a little honesty in this world, that's all. Just tell it like it is.

When my wife asks me what I think about an outfit she tries on, she knows she'll get the truth, good or bad.

Good night bro.

I have a 4x6 knock off I bought on EBay for a couple thou.

Love his work.

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Lets be real here. The art is crap.

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That's what I've been saying all day.

Look at this piece of shite. Sold for $72.84 mil in '07. Looks like my bedroom wall when the wife was trying out paint swatches.

I love retards like you. So self important that you never step back and think a little bit deeper. Why was Pollock important?

You only see "splatter" (as if that's all it was), or a soup can, and you dismiss it because it doesn't fit I to your neat, tidy little box as to what you think art needs to be.

No context, no understanding of the place in history, no understanding of the evolution of art and concepts, no understanding of the method or thought process.

I see a Rothko and admit I don't fully get it, but I also understand that it's important for a reason.

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You only see "splatter" (as if that's all it was)

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That's all it was.