Quote - Pollock was actually good at creating esthetically interesting works using this technique. He started off as a post-impressionist (I think this is the correct term), ala middle-period picasso, and started using a looser and looser brush stroke. Even his early abstract splatter paintings are representationalI and even figurative. In fact, most of his "abstracts" are really representational, but not figurative.

 

To be honest, Pollock has been an artist that I've often used as an example of bad art that has value in the art world. When I look at Pollock's work, all I see are splashes of paint that do little to move me. I haven't seen a detailed analysis of one of his paintings, but have heard other others waxing If the artist has concocted some significant, meaningful backstory, to explain the work, it usually comes across as an artist who put more thought into what he meant to do than the actual painting. It goes back to "The Emperor's New Clothes" where con artists' convinced the emperor that only one of fine intellect and station could recognize the incredible beauty of the outfit they created while all dunces and fools would see nothing at all. Art critics have elevated many works, that are otherwise nothing, into valued art. It's hard for me to take the art world seriously when a vertical canvas of a single uniform color can fetch over $900,000--which is what the painting sold for.

If abstract work moves a person emotionally, that's okay. Art is something that is in the eye of the beholder. Overall, I'd expect most Poser users to tend to realistic art or they wouldn't be using Poser very much. 

The funny thing about art auctions is that they are not simply about buying art, but also represent a gamemanship aspect where setting new records for forms of art elevate the valuation of all art of that type. After all, what other means is there to value one-of-a-kind artistic works? The "crazy" person, who paid just under a million dollars for the blue painting, increased the value of all that artist's work as well as similar works, and probably increased the value of his personal collection significantly more than the premium paid for this painting. Similarly, if such works didn't sell for their expected pricing, similar works would begin to lose such valuations.

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