What better way to kick off the Modern Art is Terrible blog than with the consummate modern artists himself, Jackson Pollock.
This is an interesting piece. It appears to be paint splattered onto a canvas. I wonder if the fact that its untitled has anything to do with the fact that you couldn't possibly derive any meaning from it?
Apparently, art merely has to be something that exists. That seems to be the only thing this mess has going for it. I know all the Jackson Pollock defenders will tell me that he was expressing his overflowing emotion by spilling all this paint on a canvas, but I dont buy that, and even if I did, it wouldn't change anything. It doesnt matter what Pollock thought he was doing when he made this, the result is right here, and its not expressing anything.
The truth is that this guy is a genius artist, in a sense. In the sense that the con can be considered an art, and many wealthy idiots are ready to confirm this with their wallets. Recently a Pollock painting was purchased for 140 million.
This blog is going to explore the wasteland of modern art and its leading inhabitants like Pollock. Focusing mainly on paintings, but also on other things like music and film, we will go from one emperor to the next, pointing out the lack of clothes.
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