“Anyone wish to bet these idiots think Jackson Pollock was a great artist?”
I am a Freeper, and a strong Conservative with A MFA. All you are doing with your name calling is exposing yourself as a person uneducated in art. Pollock broke new ground in formalism and was one of the artists who brought American art the lead from France.
Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, so go enjoy cows and a barn painting.
It is a matter of taste and I did not call Mr. Pollock any names. So apparently my lack of taste is offset by your shaky reading comprehension. But since you opened that door I can only plead that random drips of color vomited on to giant canvases by a chronic alcoholic simply doesn’t do it for me. My BA was in History and then a Masters in Business (concentration in international marketing). So I concede your Masters of Fine Arts qualifies you to become incensed when a mere “layman” expresses an opinion. I’ll just continue to enjoy all the cow and barn paintings I’ve seen at the Hermitage, the Louvre, the Rijksmuseum, the Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan.
I’m also an educated artist. I understand what Pollock was trying.
His work is still crap.
So are Rothko’s monochomatic rectangles of nothingness.
Myself, I enjoy the dogs playing cards more.