Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Also, we need a really big toaster for that Pop Tart.
The Vox did a great job. Thanks for sharing. Never liked Pollocks work but his agent was clever enough to convince the world it was good…
In 1973, The Australian government bought Blue Poles for $1.3 million. The highest amount for a purchase of a painting by an American artist at the time. The public were not too happy about it. It’s estimated at $300mill now, but…meh. The government at the time was run by PM Gough Whitlam and being Labor (Left), he was good at spending and opening our boarders to immigration. Nothing has changed since…
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/blue-poles#:~:text=The%20painting%20cost%20%241.3%20million,the%20world%20at%20that%20time.
I suppose we could refer to Pollack as the spiritual father of today’s NFT(non-fungible token) as both are illustrations of absolutely nothing.
I used to joke about the Jackson Pollock our art teacher had: her studio sink, stained with years of paint. She laughed and said every art classroom sink could be a Jackson Pollock.
The reason abstract expressionism is so ridiculous–at least as serious art–is because it emphasizes the obvious, and emphasizes it almost exclusively. Pollock’s brilliant insight was, apparently: “Paintings are simply canvas with paint on them. The paint’s patterns are an effect of the artist’s movements and the limitations of brushes and of physical laws such as gravity.” The paintings’ names more or less reflect that the withdrawal from the contemplation of objective beauty was near total: “No. 5,” for example. But then again, there was the occasional “Gray Mist.”