Happy Birthday, Jackson Pollock

[Earth_First]

[Hissyspit]

1. Go to Google.com. nt

[givemebackmycountry]

2. Holy shit....

Is he in a pair of hockey skates?

Well, I just answered my own question because he's painting with a freaking hockey STICK!

Happy Birthday JP and you remind me that genius knows very few boundaries.

[HEyHEY]

3. ladies and germs, that's NOT a real picture.

[Earth_First]

5. ?

[Earth_First]

6. Ah HAH!

The OP was a random google image grab.

I'll correct it with the original. Thanks for the heads up!

[HEyHEY]

8. no worries

[Skittles]

4. didn't he kill a woman?

that movie Pollock is really good

[Redstone]

7. What a guy. Splattered paint at random on a canvas, and sold it for big bucks as Art.

That's some chutzpah, right there.

(And yes, I'm jealous; I do indeed wish I'd been able to get aways with that like he did.)

Redstone

[HEyHEY]

14. Dude, if you step back and look at the whole thing

There's an awesome pattern in it that is just memorizing.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Oh, don't be such a drip

Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist (1950)
from 2modern.com

[EstimatedProphet]

17. It's not about throwing paint on a canvas

It's about conveying emotion from an abstract pattern. It's about redefining the boundaries of what can convey emotion.

[Shiver]

21. It's not entirely random

The act of creating the piece if what feeds that misconception.Many of the works actually display the properties of mathematical fractals, and this only increased as his career progressed.

Pollack always had an idea of how he wanted the finished piece to look. The creation of the painting was as much art as the finished painting itself; it was about the movement of his body - over which he had control - mixed with the viscous flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the way paint was absorbed into the canvas.

The mix of the uncontrollable and the controllable. ;)

[TlalocW]

9. I have paintings that I did that look like that

From when I was five-years-old. It's unfair that I wasn't hailed as a child prodigy!

His paintings are nice to look at, but I refuse to equate the minor effort of flinging paint at a canvas with actual talent.

But I've seen work by lazier modern "artists." At the Modern Art Museum of Chicago, one exhibit was a stack of 20 inch by 24 inch pieces of paper with a black 2 inch border on each sheet. Patrons were invited to take a couple of sheets because by doing so we turned it into a "truly fluid work of art." I remarked to my friend that once again life was unfair because I had done essentially the same thing with more effort by chopping and stacking wood then taking pieces of the pile to burn in my fireplace yet I wasn't featured in a museum.

TlalocW

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Have you ever had a class in Aesthetics?

Or Philosophy of Art? Anything like that?

[Tesha]

19. Marcel Duchamp nailed certain "artistique" pretensions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_%28Duchamp%29

[TlalocW]

23. Only in school where I was a pretty good artist

Then a piece here and there about the various types of Latin/Hispanic art in one of my majors of Spanish. So I appreciate more the art of someone who knows how to wield a pencil, paintbrush, or even spray can for graffiti than hacks who fling paint no matter how well thought out what color and what general area they're going to be fling with/at or "artists" like Jeff Koons who fools morons into thinking that 3 basketballs floating in a fish tank is a work of art.

TlalocW

[HEyHEY]

20. He didn't just "fling" there was some thought into it

[Shiver]

22. We had an assignment similiar to that in Kinetic Drawing when I was in art school

The assignment was to create a piece of work without doing anything directly to the paper. We had determined that a drawing was nothing more than a record of movement - anything could be a drawing, from charcoal on paper to a footprint on the sidewalk. The only thing we were allowed to do was decide where the paper was placed - we had no control over anything else.

When we handed the assignment in, the instructor put them up on the hallway. I remember him remarking that he hoped someone woud come by, look at them, and say those magic words. "I could have done that."

To which we would respond, "Then why didn't you?"

As for you idea that Pollacks work was completely random, take a look at my post upthread. There was a lot more involved than simply, "flinging paint at a canvas".

[misanthrope]

10. Here's a great link!...

...Fling away!

Hint: click to change color.

[EFerrari]

11. I like that.

:)

[misanthrope]

13. It's pretty fun and deceptively absorbing!**nm

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[Sultana]

12. Great link

:D

Happy B-day, Mr. Pollock

[bridgit]

16. That is a cool one, my husband has used it for web pages & stuff

Happy B-Day, Jackson :smoke: