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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
You know I felt just as you did about Pollock's drip paintings - until I visited MOMA and stood in front of one of his canvases (don't remember which number it was) - WOW! It's art.  You really have to see one of these in person to appreciate it. |
Ditto for me regarding Pollock's work. Seeing the images of his drip paintings only in art books just begs for the statement "My kid could make a better painting than that" to be uttered.
I had the same conversion of opinion regarding his work when I saw his paintings at MoMA. You really have to see the large canvases to get the impact of them. I better appreciated the effort that went into making them look the way they do and realized that there was more thought behind their construction, though I still don't know if there's any point to them beyond that.
