Posted on 09/15/2020 12:07:54 PM PDT by C19fan
You may or may not care for Jackson Pollock’s work, or you may think it’s overrated, but his first drip paintings are nevertheless significant pieces in the history of art. The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse owns the second drip painting Pollock ever completed—Red Composition (1946)—but it announced last weekend that it would sell it in order to fund its “anti-racist policies and programming”:
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Jackson Pollock died in a one-car accident in which he was driving drunk. One woman passenger was also killed; the other woman (his mistress) survived. His wife, also an artist, was in Europe at the time.
I’m fairly sure I’ve seen that in a Taco Bell. It had some cars in it though...
And Redd Foxx. I thought he was the funniest man on TV. Ever.
“Freddie G. Sanford, G. as in...”
As with any era, there is a lot of modern/contemporary art that is awful and deserves to be sold off. People got along without art museums for hundreds of years. We’ll get along now although the museums may not.
Well, eventually new museums will be created.
I expect most race-based art will be discarded. Either the subject and composition is worth seeing regardless of skin tone or politics or it isn’t.
“I was just about to have my house painted.”
fuggedaboutit ...
“but his first drip paintings are nevertheless significant pieces in the history of art.”
That crap is art in the same way that Nazi Pelosi is a Catholic.
Looks like a jar of Vegemite without the label.
This was the real painter of the Good Times paintings, he was quite the talent.
Ernie Barnes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Barnes
The painting was donated by a couple long dead now.
Only if the museum purchased the painting out of their own endowment I would I agree with you.
I used to work near the MOMA which was a real treat given that, for some strange reason, I have always liked modern art.
I presume that’s Bushman rock art from Southern Africa. I doubt it’s as old as 25,000 years. They aren’t all in caves, but that one is well preserved so it probably is. And I have no objection to it being included in a museum, in fact I think it should be there (though not necessarily the original, as these are priceless national treasures).
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