Google/Jackson Pollock 3939 Responses

Last post: 4 years, 3 months ago | Thread started: Jan 28, 09, 6:50 a.m.

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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.

  Jan 28, 09, 6:50 a.m. – Permalink

• Bypasser

  Just wait till the kid can handle a ruler, he'll be making Mondriaans in no time.

  • kids gona be a marvel at drawing shapes– WeLoveNoise1/2

    snap-snap-snap– TResudek2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:52 a.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  So you work among a bunch of Philistine's then?

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:53 a.m. – Permalink

• magnificent_ruin

  he's already a graphic designer

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:54 a.m. – Permalink

• waterhouse

  Children make garbage paintings.

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:55 a.m. – Permalink

• ESPtype

  why do you work with these people

  • I ask myself that same question everyday.– PIITB1/2

    did you live up to your name with the bosses squeeze ?– BattleAxe2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:56 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  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.

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:57 a.m. – Permalink

• BaskerviIle

  

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:57 a.m. – Permalink

• NotByHand

  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."

  • exactly– BaskerviIle1/3

    not only "you didn't" but also "you can't"– meisterschueler2/3

    No, some people can. That's why "But you didn't" works better. Don't say anything else.– Jaline3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 6:59 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  The "my kid could do that" statement has never made any sense to me as a pretext for what is or is not art.

  • agreed.– Gucci

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 7:02 a.m. – Permalink

• harlequino

  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.– 7point341/4

    I wanted to like it, but it bugged me. *shugs
    *aplies dapper dan hair jelly– harlequino2/4

    I wanted to punch that son the entire movie.– dMullins3/4

    The sperm son deserved to get kicked in the face.– Jaline4/4

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 7:05 a.m. – Permalink

• ItTango

  I've heard that same dribble about work by Basquiat.
  Ignorance is...

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 7:38 a.m. – Permalink

• OSFA

  Just nod and keep working. People like that will never understand.

  • oh, and if it your boss' wife, you'll never win.– OSFA

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 7:42 a.m. – Permalink

• uberdesigner

  "my kids could do that"
  "but they didn't"

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 8:13 a.m. – Permalink

• woodyBatts

  "You can play C sharp ona piano, but I bet your C sharp is not better than Mozart's"

  • Yes!!– OSFA1/3

    This is different.– Jaline2/3

    I'm probably biased towards knowing how to play things beautiful vs. splattering paint though.– Jaline3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 9:03 a.m. – Permalink

• katekelly

  amen woodyBatts.

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 9:38 a.m. – Permalink

• brains

  Oh what a great way to start the day.

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 9:41 a.m. – Permalink

• TheBlueOne

  "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?"

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 9:42 a.m. – Permalink

• Arvizu

  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?

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 10 a.m. – Permalink

• thelukeandrews

  just respond "yes.. but you kid wasn't the first one to call it art"

  • aye, there's the rub– doesnotexist

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 10:11 a.m. – Permalink

• livelikebruce

  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?

  

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  Dog-earJan 28, 09, 10:12 a.m. – Permalink