[quote]SkyzykS wrote:
[quote]Alffi wrote:
What is good art or not is decided by so called art critics, not the common sense of the common man. If some wealthy jew wants to promote decaying heads of cows as arts, then he has the power to do that. Or if someone splashing paint around like an idiot is to be taken seriously. See Jackson Pollock.
The average person has a more objective perception of art that is based on reasonably inclusive understanding of aesthetics in line with people’s natural perception. There was a news article lamenting how black female artists win awards in the UK but do not sell records very well. This is the kind of gap that exists between people’s understanding of art and the egalitarian view forced on them from higher above. [/quote]
You know, it’s a funny thin about Pollock. I had always like his stuff and didn’t know why.
Then there was an article in Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=order-in-pollocks-chaos about his work. After an analysis of some of his pieces, they were found to contain a natural flow and density of fractal patterns which almost exactly mimics the bare wooded landscapes of a forest in the winter, which turns out to have a very soothing effect. Turns out that in the method of his madness, he managed to incorporate a very natural aesthetic quality that is extraordinarily difficult to replicate.
A similar fractal pattern can be found in an original Tiffany Lamp which is part of the Kaufman estate at Falling Water, an architectural masterpiece done by Frank Lloyd Wright, which I like to visit sometimes for its very calming and serene atmosphere.
Sometimes the value of effect of a persons work is not obvious at first. It takes a while to permeate your mind, but never quite registers in the what, where, why, sense.
Or maybe he was just some idiot.
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No idiot. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Good post, SkyzykS.
Pollock’s random quotes:
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn’t have as far to fall.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
It’s like looking at a bed of flowers–you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.
It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
The modern artist… is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
