Posted on 05/28/2016 11:01:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
“Most abstract artists have the ability to draw a perfectly rendered rose...”
I have to disagree with you here. Just as self-publishing has attracted many people who can’t write to become authors, Modern art also attracted, along with gifted artists, a massive hoard of people without any talent at all.
Thank you Yaelle. :)
Correct you are.
I like your six year old’s art much better :)
Yeah I didn’t discuss ethnicity. I thing in my case it might have Indian, the Southwest Asian kind.
Yea I thought they look good together on my door.
Thank you Trillian! :)
That is not what I witnessed in art school. The students who grabbed onto abstract art as soon as they could were the ones who could not draw $#^[.
The only thing that made Pollock’s work famous was he was the first. That’s about all you have to do in the modern art movement. Talent is not required. Be the first to save urine in a jar and insert a crucifix. Boom, you’re famous. Be the first to paint the virgin Mary with elephant dung. Boom, you’re famous. Be the first to give finger paint to a chimpanzee. Boom, you’re famous.
Compare those works of Pollock and Warhol to Michelangelo and DaVince.
Jackson Pollack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton, IIRC...
Modern “art” is a scam. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3609779/What-spectacle-Student-glasses-floor-pretended-art-people-immediately-started-cooing-taking-pictures.html
I’m talking the Masters... look at their training and early work.
I find Pollack interesting. Especially his life story (crazy) and his early work. And the size of some of his drip paintings.. over 8’ by 17’.
I would recommend Camille Paglia’s beautiful book “Glittering Images” which tackles both Pollock and Modrian (but not Rothko). Aside from that, she also covers many other artists that are more accessible from the Book of Kells through Andy Warhol. The prints are absolutely beautiful and on fine paper. I bought mine for a buck on Amazon.
Modern abstract art is anything you want it to be, including rubber chickens hung from dead tree branches. I have witnessed that.
I often visited the Rothko Chapel in Houston, I admit that it took a few visits to get it, but once I did I really liked it.
their paintings are spatial arbitrarily related juxtapositions of color that are representations of the disintegrated mode of thought
What rot.
Perfect statement!
I’ve always used that rule of thumb. I don’t remember stating it so well, though.
Whatever floats yer boat , pilgrim! ; )
If you were my parent you would have quit that activity set after the third or fourth utter chicken scrawl produced by these completely talentless hands. I have difficulty drawing a straight line with a ruler. Absolutely nothing I have ever drawn looks remotely like what I was attempting to portray.
Not to say I don’t appreciate art, but some folks (like myself) found every art course/class/session a complete waste of our and the instructor’s time.
Courses on enjoying and interpreting art are a completely different subject. I mostly enjoyed those when I took them. Until the stupid instructor brought out the paper and pencils for us to scribble on. AARGH! One time the class leader accused me of intentionally sabotaging her class. I brought her some samples from other classes. She never asked me to draw again, thank G_d.
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