Google/Jackson Pollock
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- PIITB
This is how my morning started.
My bosses wife sat down at her desk to work today and said "now what is that on goolge's homepage". So I immediately went to google to check it out and I said ummm... thats Jackson Pollock. lol. She then stated that her kid could do that. Which then started a little debate about abstract expressionism being art or not.
I just thought I would share that with you guys.
- Bypasser0
Just wait till the kid can handle a ruler, he'll be making Mondriaans in no time.
- kids gona be a marvel at drawing shapesWeLoveNoise
- snap-snap-snapTResudek
- TheBlueOne0
So you work among a bunch of Philistine's then?
- magnificent_ruin0
he's already a graphic designer
- waterhouse0
Children make garbage paintings.
- BaskerviIle0
but the google image contains the word google, so not strictly on form with pollack but it's cool, nice to see them doing something subtle for once.
- NotByHand0
The best 'answer/solution' to these kinds of debates (imo) - about the genius of something that others could execute as well - was said by Picasso once, when someone said to him: "I could have done that."
He calmly replied: "But you didn't."- exactlyBaskerviIle
- not only "you didn't" but also "you can't"meisterschueler
- No, some people can. That's why "But you didn't" works better. Don't say anything else.Jaline
- harlequino0
The "my kid could do that" statement has never made any sense to me as a pretext for what is or is not art.
- harlequino0
Anyone ever seen the film "Squid and the Whale?" I didn't care fo it, but the one part I thought was great, was in which the older son plagiarizes a Pink Floyd song as his own, and wins a talent competition.
Once outed, he defends his lie by saying that he feels strongly that he truly COULD have written that song, and by that logic can reasonably say that he DID write that song.- i dug that movie.7point34
- I wanted to like it, but it bugged me. *shugs
*aplies dapper dan hair jellyharlequino - I wanted to punch that son the entire movie.dMullins
- The sperm son deserved to get kicked in the face.Jaline
- ItTango0
I've heard that same dribble about work by Basquiat.
Ignorance is...
- OSFA0
Just nod and keep working. People like that will never understand.
- uberdesigner0
"my kids could do that"
"but they didn't"
- woodyBatts0
"You can play C sharp ona piano, but I bet your C sharp is not better than Mozart's"
- katekelly0
amen woodyBatts.
- brains0
Oh what a great way to start the day.
- TheBlueOne0
"So, what HAVE your kids done? Could you bring an example round the office and I'll see if I can get a few million for it at the gallery?"
- Arvizu0
of course, there's the technical aspect that says Pollock spent decades perfecting the technique. A technique from which mathematically precise fractals were recently discovered to emerge--so yeah, her kid probably couldn't do that. And graphic design is easy too--anyone with a computer, right?
- thelukeandrews0
just respond "yes.. but you kid wasn't the first one to call it art"
- livelikebruce0
WOW, her kid could do that? Must be some sort of child prodigy. Ask her how much her kid's paintings are selling for at auction?