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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The Bee strikes again.
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Or stamp “YOU ARE HERE” on a Piet Mondrian...
They must have read my post from the other day.
Find Nearby coffee shop...
That gave me a chuckle...
FWIW, MoMA is a great place to go. It’s my favorite art museum in Manhattan.
Even I could have done that.
I don’t get it.
Why is that museum worthy?
I have an MA in art. I am not ashamed to say that Jackson Pollack succeeded in hood winking the art world better than anyone ever has until Hunter Biden
Here’s something even better, standing behind a jet engine and tossing paint into the air, allowing the exhaust to splatter the paint all over the canvas.
This really is a thing.
I’ve made more attractive drop clothes.
Peter Quill: “Filthy? She has no idea. If we had a blacklight, it would look like a Jackson Pollock painting.”
In the film ‘Contraband’ the Wahlberg character crumples up a stolen Pollack canvas and throws it in the corner of an old van along with some paint cans and brushes. Customs takes a quick look and lets him go on his way.
This was sold for $120,000. No kidding. And then somebody ate it. Also no kidding. Then they taped another one back up. Really no kidding.
That’s crazy.
This one’s even funnier: https://babylonbee.com/news/with-tulsi-gabbard-out-of-democratic-party-title-of-hottest-democrat-goes-back-to-nancy-pelosi
When someone has that much money to blow that they can’t see something like that, go to the store, buy a banana and some duct tape and DIY, it does push me a little toward Socialism.
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