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To: LexBaird
A Pollock in person is an impressive thing. If you haven't been there, hold back your judgement.

I've been there. He sucks.


His art would have no meaning if some didn't think it sucked. Especially in a way that makes them (like you) personally hostile to the artist. Imagine, decades after one's demise, being able to generate such an emotional response in someone who merely observed something one created one day long ago!
238 posted on 03/07/2006 7:38:54 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Beelzebubba
His art would have no meaning if some didn't think it sucked.

His art has no intrinsic meaning, anyway. That's one of the reasons it sucks as art.

Art, at it's basis, is a means of communication, a transfer of message and evoked emotion from the artist to the viewer. Pollack and the rest if the trendy of his time strove to remove all message from their art, and leave it up to the viewer to get whatever he could out of it.

Pollock's works are art at about the level of a teenager screaming "You just don't understand me!!!!" is a conversation. Trite, shallow, repetitive, unproductive, masturbatory and one-sided.

But the hostility is less directed at Pollack than at the waste of time and dead end pursuits it has sent the "Fine Art" world off in for 70 years.

261 posted on 03/07/2006 8:09:16 AM PST by LexBaird ("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
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