Posted on 10/17/2022 2:37:22 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
PARIS — According to experts in neoclassical art and surrealism, a piece by the legendary artist Jackson Pollock was vandalized by climate activists in Paris and no one even noticed.
"The painting in question, Number 31, was one of the most celebrated Pollock works," said an authority investigating the crime. "But now it just looks like a bunch of splattered paint any moron could create, which really isn't much different than how it looked before."
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Imagine if someone defaced a Leroy Niemann painting. Would anyone notice?
Good one!
Don’t laugh. I remember a similar incident fifty or more years ago. No one noticed for weeks.
Hahahahaha...one of the most memorable lines from that movie!
I won’t watch any more of their movies, but...I liked that one. I even got the soundtrack.
Heh, when I was in the USN doing high power turn-ups on our planes, we would throw empty oil cans into the exhaust to see them flatten when they hit the jet blast deflectors!
I remember an old film in art class in college. A man has a 4x8 ft sheet of plywood placed on a bank of river mud. He then from an elevated position begins to sprinkle and pour paint onto his “canvas”.
When he is finished he then takes it and cuts it into various sizes of “paintings”.
An art dealer comes in, looks them over and buys a small one maybe 8x12 inches.
The “artist” then throws the rest into the river to float away.
From all accounts, Picasso was a turd of a human being who apparently had an extremely low opinion of people who liked and purchased his art, but I did hear a story about him that made me laugh...
He was on the beach one day, and a young child came up to him with a piece of paper and a marker, and asked him if he would draw a picture for him.
This was apparently a common ruse by parents who hoped to get a valuable piece of art that they could keep and make money off, under the guise of a sweet child.
Picasso glanced around, and caught sight of the parents peering at this as it played out, and without hesitation, took the marker from the boy and drew a picture of something on the bare skin of the child’s back!
It was said that he exclaimed later “I’ll bet that boy never got another bath in his life!”
Personally, I have never been able to appreciate modern art all that much, especially not Pollock’s work. I see one once in a while that is interesting, but overall...I prefer other forms of art.
When I see most modern art, I always think of Rules #22 and #23 from “Current Communist Goals” as revealed by Dr. Cleon Skousen in “The Naked Communist” written in 1958”
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
“Control art critics and directors of art museums. ‘Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.’”
Reminds me of most modern commercials for women’s beauty products.
Next you are going to tell me that Jasper Johns was a good artist?
Broken toy gears and olive-drab paint a painting they do not make!
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