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To: BenLurkin

Could be an improvement but the original had great colors.

When I was young, I used to insult my uncle’s painting collection. By a bunch of guys I had never heard of or hardly knew about - Picasso, Leger, Cliff Styl, Rotko, Arp, Miro, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock (either #1948 or #1949), etc. Did love his small “Klee” paintings. Really good art.

One painting had a rough pebble like texture of a figure that looked like a skull (with eyes), crossbone arms, and bone legs or chest. I asked my uncle, a doctor, whether that was a painting of one of his patients who didn’t make it. He was NOT amused (actually he had a great sense of humor including putting Rembrandt print in his bathroom).

PS: Pollock and his wife were friends of my uncle as were some of the other artists.

Finally my uncle gave me an educational tour of his works and I learned a lot about them, esp. Picasso’s early works 1910-1915 period - really good paintings once you understood what they were portraying.

There were at least three that were painted in Army olive/brown camouflage color and had parts of broken clocks and toys pasted to the canvas. They really did suck!

A few good ones were sold by Sotheby’s decades later. Don’t ask!


67 posted on 04/05/2021 12:45:04 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Additional information on paintings I referred above #67.

Clyfford Still - corrected spelling, “Painting 1949”

Jean Dubuffet, skeleton figure “Monsieur Plume - Portrait de Henri Michaux”, 1947.

Olive-drab paintings/crap by Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, etc

Jackson Pollack is “No. 19, 1949”


68 posted on 04/05/2021 1:17:59 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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