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Jackson Pollock paintings: Genius Art? Or just some mad cunt dripping paint on a canvas?

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Discuss Jackson Pollock paintings: Genius Art? Or just some mad cunt dripping paint on a canvas? in the TalkCeltic Pub area at TalkCeltic.net.

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  1. Drakhan Nac Mac Feegle Gold Member

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    I know there are better murals but the 2 i posted were the first 2 that i seen when searching for Irish murals.
     
    Drakhan, Nov 26, 2017
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  2. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    could give myself a paint enema and squat over a piece of canvas and * paint all over it.

    Would end up getting done for trying to forge this Pollock *
     
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  3. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Did you ever watch Karl Pilkington? In one of his episodes, he visited an artist who swallows coloured water and then pukes it on to canvas to make art.
     
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    I do recall an episode of eurotrash where some woman used her lady fountain and paint on canvas.
     
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    I like looking at Rothko, Pollock, Kadinsky, etc. Im not articulate enough to explain why (at least not without sounding like a pretentious *!) but I do enjoy it. But I cannot suffer the typical Turner Prize type of art (Im not even sure what its name is). I think it is ridiculous in a bad way.

    But then I do appreciate Dadaism in art and music which I guess is almost nonsense by definition. I could happily listen to the most far out stuff by frank zappa or captain beefheart when others just hear 'noise', in the same way people can look at Turner prize stuff and see something I cant see.

    So I guess it just depends on what your own brain responds to and what it doesnt.
     
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  6. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Throwing paint on a canvas is as much not art as someone screaming in a microphone isn’t music.

    I have the utmost respect for proper artists though, I have no idea how people can be so creative with just a brush and an easel. The lifelike stuff blows my mind, mainly because I’ve never had the ability to draw anything other than a stick man.
     
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  8. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Can't get my head round it at all.

    I like landscape paintings and ones of people but the ones that always seem to win the most awards make nae sense to me.

    It's very subjective I suppose.
     
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    It's rhyming slang ain't it, it's a lot of Jackson Pollocks, explains itself really
     
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    I'm not a fan of that style of art.
    Same as Rothko and the block painting style, i don't really understand that either. Looks like someone testing paint colours out before doing a room.
     
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  11. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Wrong. Both of those things are entirely subjective.
     
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    Entirely subjective as has been noted. Can't say it is my kind of art mind you but some I have seen I have quite liked. My favourite kind of art is civil war art, ones with both armies charging into one another. I have spent long periods looking at individual soldiers in those paintings wondering who they were and why they were fighting and if art can make someone think like that then it is good no matter if you like it or not.

    I especially like civil war art that depicts the Confederates as winning.

    Look away Dixe *
     
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  13. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    There’s an oxymoron if ever I’ve read one :56:
     
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  14. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    I'm a bit like that myself, think the old battlefield paintings are cool as *. The big version of this is in Edinburgh castle:

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    Basically like paintings that tell a story. Not just blobs shoved on a canvas.
     
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  15. Callum McGregor The Captain Gold Member

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    Nope.
     
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    That is a cracker. I, wrongly, tend to neglect art depicting our history. Should really check more of it out.
     
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  17. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    In my subjective opinion a * on a plate isn’t art.

    If it’s all subjective my opinion then can’t be wrong, can it?
     
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  18. Mr Shelby Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    'Thin Red Line' its called, Sutherland Highlanders during a battle against the Russians in the Crimean War.

    When you google those paintings, it always leads into other ones of similar battles and it amazes me how many small scale wars there have been over the years. Particularly around that time period.

    Also like this, Battle of Culloden:

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    I prefer this

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