What do I think of Pollock? I think he's interesting. I don't like some of his paintings, but some of them I really do like. The one on the cover of the fractals article, for example, has a very nice color scheme. I might hang something like that on my wall. Maybe.
But I most definitely would not pay millions of dollars for it. The more I hear about the exorbitant prices that art works go for in the world, the more puzzled I am. Maybe it's just because I'm a poor college student working to finance my education so I can get a good job, but if I had 140 million dollars to throw around on something, I would donate it to the Humane Society or create a bunch of college scholarships or something. I wouldn't spend such a huge sum of money on one single little painting. Ridiculous.
As for Pollock himself, I thought it was hilarious in the video when the forgery artist guy said that you'd have to be drunk before you could create something that looks like a Jackson Pollock.
The fractals article talked about how Pollock's paintings mimic the natural world. Pollock himself said that he was one with nature. Well, in essence then, Pollock is imitating nature. Plato would hate Pollock's paintings, because they are thrice removed from the truth. Aristotle, on the other hand, would think they were great because they mimic nature.
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my thoughts exactly. i like his paintings, but it makes me mad that people would spend so much on art. with 140 million dollars i think i could be a little more creative. or just never work again.
ReplyDeleteI clicked on your post because of the title.
ReplyDeleteI made similar comments in my own blog; $140,000,000 is truly ridiculous, as is the art world's system of deciding what goes and what doesn't, as we saw in the video. I'm beginning to lose what little respect I had for the art world.