Posted on 04/03/2021 3:54:06 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Some kid stuck some gum to a Cy Twombly piece (a blackboard with squiggles) one time and he was consulted about how to restore the piece. He suggested leaving it as it is.
Also as he had already sold it he didn’t much mind/care.
When we look at ancient artworks, we are more concerned with the age of the piece and the rarity of works from that area or some modern appreciation of some piece than following onto whatever was considered the best “in its day” by the artist’s peers or the public.
So much of the value and “appeciation” aplied to works comes from academics and journalists, not other artists or the public at large.
Vaccidentalism: a new form of art invented during the Covid era.
Gamora:
And by the way... Your ship is filthy.
Peter Quill:
Filthy? She has no idea. If we had a blacklight, this thing would look like a Jackson Pollock painting.
Rocket Raccoon:
You got issues, Quill.
He sickens me!
Yet I can’t turn away!
Could be an improvement but the original had great colors.
When I was young, I used to insult my uncle’s painting collection. By a bunch of guys I had never heard of or hardly knew about - Picasso, Leger, Cliff Styl, Rotko, Arp, Miro, Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock (either #1948 or #1949), etc. Did love his small “Klee” paintings. Really good art.
One painting had a rough pebble like texture of a figure that looked like a skull (with eyes), crossbone arms, and bone legs or chest. I asked my uncle, a doctor, whether that was a painting of one of his patients who didn’t make it. He was NOT amused (actually he had a great sense of humor including putting Rembrandt print in his bathroom).
PS: Pollock and his wife were friends of my uncle as were some of the other artists.
Finally my uncle gave me an educational tour of his works and I learned a lot about them, esp. Picasso’s early works 1910-1915 period - really good paintings once you understood what they were portraying.
There were at least three that were painted in Army olive/brown camouflage color and had parts of broken clocks and toys pasted to the canvas. They really did suck!
A few good ones were sold by Sotheby’s decades later. Don’t ask!
Additional information on paintings I referred above #67.
Clyfford Still - corrected spelling, “Painting 1949”
Jean Dubuffet, skeleton figure “Monsieur Plume - Portrait de Henri Michaux”, 1947.
Olive-drab paintings/crap by Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, etc
Jackson Pollack is “No. 19, 1949”
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