re: Spinoff thread: Jackson Pollock's artwork.

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I like it but I didn't until I learned more about both him and his work.

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This has happened to me a lot.

It is true with music as well. Sometimes the real meaning of a song is where the art is at

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Wolfe provides his own history of what he sees as the devolution to modern art. He summarized that history: "In the beginning we got rid of nineteenth-century storybook realism. Then we got rid of representational objects. Then we got rid of the third dimension altogether and got really flat (Abstract Expressionism). Then we got rid of airiness, brushstrokes, most of the paint, and the last viruses of drawing and complicated designs". After providing examples of other techniques and the schools that abandoned them, Wolfe concluded with Conceptual Art: "…there, at last, it was! No more realism, no more representation objects, no more lines, colors, forms, and contours, no more pigments, no more brushstrokes. …Art made its final flight, climbed higher and higher in an ever-decreasing tighter-turning spiral until… it disappeared up its own fundamental aperture… and came out the other side as Art Theory!… Art Theory pure and simple, words on a page, literature undefiled by vision… late twentieth-century Modern Art was about to fulfill its destiny, which was: to become nothing less than Literature pure and simple"

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Boom is right!

The genius of Thomas Wolfe putting my thoughts into words so much more brilliantly than i could, while at the same time giving me a deeper understanding of my initial opinion of this art movement.

Basically what Wolfe is saying here is that these people are no longer painting artists, they're bullshite artists.

Slap some paint on a canvas with the artistry being the literary story concocted by the painter of what the painting represents.



Sheep met shepherd.

I find characature artists in Jackson Square to have more artistic ability than most impressionist artists. I saw a painting in a museum once that was a large plane white canvas with just a red square at the top. It got equal billing as a fantastic painting of the Battle of Waterloo that had to have taken many months if not years to complete.

Ridiculous

I ate Chipotle yesterday and made a Jackson Pollack in my underwear.

Wow. A brave criticism of capitalism as viewed by Maoist rebels.

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Basically what Wolfe is saying here is that these people are no longer painting artists, they're bullshite artists. 

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Wow. A brave criticism of capitalism as viewed by Maoist rebels.

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You may have a bright future as an art critic!

Always entertaining to read a thread where rednecks critique the work of Jackson Pollock.

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I think people believe they have elite intelligence, therefore, they can see genius where less fortunates cannot - it's simply narcissism manifested via art. However, the reality is that Jackson was a drunkard who gave up on traditional art because he wasn't being noticed for his talent; thus, he expressed his anger and disappointment with randomness and was noted for being a pioneer...but, his acclaim comes from beginning a new trend, not on his artistic prowess.

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Good post.