Jackson Pollock: Decoding the Art of the ‘Action Painter’

[@2LV2]

Your appreciation of artists is magnificent and very special. Please do more artists. I think your articles go beyond information. Truly inspirational

[@saigade1236]

Could u please do a video called Richard Feynman, the great explainer

[@wittebolletony]

The world renowned bongo player who studied physics so he could play better!

[@StepheneMacharia]

As an engineer this would make my day.

[@minilea144]

Shouldn't the Great Explainer be Simon Whistler? Purely joking. A little.

[@wittebolletony]

@Europa: The Last Battle on Bitchute dot com קצת נגד יהודים?

[@HBC423]

Would love this... Also one on Alan Watts: the spiritual entertainer

[@JC-ks3yk]

If you want to do a bio about a weird painter, try Hieronymus Bosch.

[@mangot589]

I’d Love that! He’s one of my favorites. I’m not particularly into art, but his stuff is pretty intriguing.

[@toddaulner5393]

Archibaldo

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - An artist of some kind 5:15 - Chapter 2 - Guardian of a secret 9:40 - Chapter 3 - Stampede 12:00 - Chapter 4 - Lucifer 14:50 - Chapter 5 - No chaos, damn it ! 18:30 - Chapter 6 - A helping hand

[@sonicgoo1121]

23 Minutes and no mention of his awesome nickname: Jack the Dripper.

[@henry7001]

hahah

[@jeffschroeder8294]

Why is man famous?

[@Johnm.499]

Drip drip

[@Johnm.499]

Uh... he got ,drip

[@ethanmiller631]

he's wearing rick owens before he dies

[@shaggyrumplenutz1610]

The only thing that Jackson's pieces have in common with Navajo sand paintings is they were both done on the ground.

[@unchillada5858]

The influence of sand paintings was more evident in Pollock's earlier work not shown in this video. Such as his painting titled "Bird" from 1941 in which Pollock mixed sand into the paints he used on the upper half of the painting. Pollock saw the Navajo painters of the Singing Chant at MoMA in the thirties and had probably been aware of the sand painters even before then through the Smithsonian's annual reports. I wish this video had shown more examples of Pollock's early work and the connections to Surrealism. Other than that, this video was great and pretty accurate

[@MC-gj8fg]

Realistically, abstract art in general truly is a bane not only to art, but with its unearned popularity, in many ways a catalyst for some of the greatest flaws in modern human thinking. Even taken simply as art, it's been repeatedly demonstrated in experiments that even so called "experts" cannot tell the difference between something created by a 1st grader and the work of these so called "geniuses." If you want to witness true skill, with the exception of a rare few surrealists, you'll find it almost exclusively in the work of realists. The ability to make the viewer of a painting second guess themselves as to whether what they're looking at is photography or paint and canvas never fails to impress me. To posses not only the raw skill but the incredible eye for detail to ensure that even every glint of sunlight playing off of water is perfectly reflected is truly stunning.

[@shakiMiki]

Can you offer some evidence for that?

[@underscoreellipsesdothyphe1563]

It's only a bane because it gets hijacked by opportunists looking to make quick money, but abstract done by people who have studied techniques or actually done art as a subject is different in my opinion. Usually stuff like this is adorned on walls of show homes or something, realism is fine but it gets tedious looking at the millions of portraits that look nearly identical or millions of landscapes that are nearly identical, I think both are fine - but it's basically the means if someone is doing abstract, just to make quick money that's when it becomes sour and cheapens it, it's the same with the minimalism genre in music, if it's done by people who are classically trained, it's different then just someone doing it simply for ego or something or opportunistic reasons, or the same with John Cage, he was more a theorist about sound then a "traditional" composer, it's only when things get hijacked by opportunists or people like that that they become ruined and a bane on society, but you also have to take into account the time it was created, what we call "classical" or "renaissance" art was fine for Da Vinci's et al lifetime, but that was over 100 years ago, but they wouldn't have called it " classical art " they would've just called it " art " lol. Reminds me of the Simpsons where they're living through world war 1 and someone keeps saying "I can't believe world war 1 is still going" and someone says " why do you keep calling it world war ONE " lol

[@ethanramos4441]

“Painting is self discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.” Jackson Pollock

[@Starrjet]

Guess Pollack was Fkd Up

[@RetroAP]

@@Starrjet uh yeah

[@swagnusmcduck7566]

@@StarrjetSomeone’s starting to get it :O

[@Starrjet]

@@swagnusmcduck7566 Better yet, if an artist paints what he is, Pollack is nothing more than an orgasmic splotch. And even that may be giving him too much credit. Want to see a real artist, visit Quent Cordair and check out Bryan Larsen.

[@AnthonyBottari]

I love the look of "action painting " it so free and not rigid. Must be fun to do too.

[@briandoss9232]

Huh. His work is the epitome of I have no idea what I'm looking at, but I love it.

[@christinacascadilla4473]

The Peggy Guggenheim part reminds me of the scene in “Hannah and Her Sisters” where Dusty says, “ I’ve got a lot of wall space.”

[@treydodson4726]

I can't explain it but this video makes me want to see the secretive, mellow puffy haired scenic painter Bob Ross.

[@mangot589]

Probably because his works all look like happy accidents.

[@BradGryphonn]

I still remember (and I was 10 years old at the time) when the Australian Government approved the purchase of Pollock's 'Blue Poles', or 'No11 1952' for the Australian National Gallery. The price was 2 million dollars, which was an insane price in 1973. Today it is estimated to be worth over 100 million dollars.

[@adamb8485]

I'm addicted to this channel! Thank you for sharing all the amazing content! Love, love, love history!

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

Any relation to Roy Benavidez?

[@adamb8485]

@@arnaldoteodorani277 not that I am aware of , but there is a possibility being from his neighoring state. Although I like to know the Bio of a man of his stature.

[@jonkline709]

Wow I throughly enjoyed that video. Have always loved his art and feel for that tourthed soul

[@jamesjacocks6221]

YES! You can spend hours just immersing yourself in his complexity.

[@neroangelo1409]

Could you do a video on Maximiliano Hernández Martínez? He was a crazy dictator in El Salvador that believed in witchcraft and tried to cure a smallpox epidemic in the capital city by hanging up Christmas lights.

[@StepheneMacharia]

Sounds like the recently ousted president of The Gambia.

[@sailinbob11]

Sounds like a Trump idea. Unless you ask Melania.

[@dustinwilton5343]

“The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.”

[@sailinbob11]

@@dustinwilton5343 ummm... No... just no.

[@dustinwilton5343]

@@sailinbob11 sorry, when I heard all the crazy stuff I couldn’t resist.

[@jamesjacocks6221]

It can be socially interesting to criticize Jackson Pollock, I've heard it all more than once, but few critics, wherever they are based, understand the basic tenets of his work. I enjoyed Simon's very good breakdown of the elements of his painting and somewhat sympathetic relating of his life and labor. It is still quite fashionable in some circles to speak of modern art as a joke on the viewer but philistines are not know for their reserve. Genius does not explain itself and by it's nature is not easily understood. This is Jackson in a nutshell, for he surely possessed genius and he wasn't particularly communicative, except in his work. Too bad he gave up on himself.

[@Qboi1982]

One of my favorite artists

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

I paint after the style of Pollack. There is no chaos and no random splashes. Every time paint is laid on the surface it is deliberate and considered. It is to the untrained splashes and splits. It is anything but that and is as taxing mentally and physically as a hard workout at the gym.

[@RudeMcNasty]

At a modern art exhibit cleaning lady accidentally left the broom out on the floor, people were taking photographs of it. Most people are hung up on the name, not the art.

[@unchillada5858]

I think I've heard of that piece. "Prelude to a Dirty Foot" wasn't it called?

[@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas]

@Michael Jones or maybe they can see the beauty in mundane things.

[@wemblyfez]

Mixed feelings with Pollock; I love abstract Expressionism but prefer Motherwell, DeKooning and Frankenthaler. But I do understand how he opened the door to artists and for that I admire his work. Was remotely aware that the attitude of Abstract art was Communist but happy to see you delve deeper into it. Thanks as always, Simon, for another Bio well done.

[@stevehomeier8368]

You know you're an artistic badass when you're flinging around flammable varnish with a lit ciggy in your mouth

[@calichef1962]

I've known a lot of artists in my lifetime, and YES! All of them do DANGEROUS things! The painters, even the water colorists, all eat their pigments when they "sharpen" the tips of their pointed brushes with their lips. Spray painters have to learn, usually the hard way, to wear respirators when they work. Sculptors and potters breathe in tons of rock and clay dust. Glass blowers and stained glass artists wantonly mix glass and metal in scary little buckets of death all around their workshops. And the actors and musicians, well, their drug, alcohol and sexual proclivities are well known. Artists might be a little crazy, but they sure make life more enjoyable and I'm grateful to them for sharing their talents with us mere mortals.

[@Paul_Ch52]

Beautifully done. Thank you.

[@wagherbert]

Great ! I love Pollock. The Australian Gov bought 'Blue Poles' for 1.3 million, a huge amount at the time. It is currently worth 350 million and hangs in The National Art gallery in Canberra. It is fantastic. Thank you for covering artists :)

[@ariedebruijn1189]

Those who can't sing do rap. Those who can't paint do "contemporary or abstract art".

[@austinbaker9575]

imagine thinking that one form of art requires more talent than another

[@ariedebruijn1189]

@@austinbaker9575 Indeed...

[@augustgreig9420]

@TacoTacoTacoTaco >I'm not an expert on physical art, but the logic seems applicable I was a painter and a guitarist, both self taught, picking up both brush and pick at 13 when I received both items as Christmas gifts. The first night that I had a guitar, I was able to teach myself the riff to "Black Dog" from Zep. It was fairly difficult for me as a beginner, and took a couple of months before I could play it perfectly, exactly as Jimmy Page did. On the other hand, within that same 30 day time period, I could play some TOOL, The Melvin's and System of a Down songs from beginning to end. I could also play several Sabbath songs minus the hardest part of the solos, which became much easier when I learned what a pentatonic minor scale was. But know way could I play King Crimson or Steely Dan or Jimi Hendrix for years. Painting was exactly the same way. I started off in two different styles. The first was just the wet on wet Bob Ross technique, and this was actually unbelievably easy, even though instead of following his directions and just painting an identical picture along with him, I just used the principles and painted from imagination. My second style was a kind of... I guess you'd call it expressionism, where I would paint actual things and people, but with abstract concepts as well as aggressive brush strokes that were as apparent as any other aspect in the final product. This was done to further enhance the mood or concept behind the piece, as I would us different brush strokes to express different things. It's very similar in rock music to aggressive, "sloppy", noisey or lofi guitar playing. But when I began to try and paint more "traditionally", even surrealism, it was orders of magnitude more difficult to try and capture light like vermeer than it was to create a work of abstract expressionism, which I also dabbled in using a combination of a kind of Pollack's drip painting along with my own techniques like using grocery bags and scrunched aluminum foil to attack the canvas after it was covered in drip painting to add a new dimension and texture to it. People liked those paintings, and I sold a lot of work, but never was I able to truly capture the styles and techniques of more traditional paintings. But even when I got close enough to be proud of, people just weren't interested in those paintings. The most money I ever made on a painting was of a human figure, mouth gagged, reaching up out of this void of darkness that he was submerged in up to his waist, and surrounded by. The painting was done in about 40 minutes, there was just enough detail in them for you to recognize him as human. The brush strokes were extremely heavy, to the point that the strokes themselves often served to carve shapes out identically colored paint. There were a few water ripples at the waist, and then entire back ground was just black with alternating "X" shaped brush strokes which did catch the light nicely depending on the viewing angle. To sum up, songs and paintings I created as a teen or in my early 20's were FAR more loved than my later works, which required a decade of practice and artistic development to achieve. That's why I've always said that there is definitely an objective aspect to judging art. Jazz is a great example o this. As it evolved out of bebop and blues influences, it lost its popularity as well, being replaced with rock and roll. The reason is fairly simple. You need a certain level of sophistication and academic knowledge of music to truly appreciate it. The only problem with that, is you begin to skate a fine line between something which requires education to fully appreciate, to where we are now where a an tapes a banana to a wall and it sells for millions simply because it requires an education in art and a complex explanation from the artist, which is completely antithetical to what art is supposed to be. If you have to explain it, than it isn't honest art, it's pretentious and purposely obtuse.

[@NeiroAtOpelCC]

I'm not much into art, but I must admit I like the stuff you've shown of that guy. I like the apparent chaos that isn't really chaos.

[@toddaulner5393]

He was really drunk too.

[@marvwatkins7029]

The toddler quote is from the best art critic.

[@DavidMacDowellBlue]

Love to see/watch a video on Mark Rothko.

[@w13rdguy]

Watching this video was the first effort I've ever made to understand this artist. Until now, I thought his paintings most closely resembled vomit. I'm starting to get a new appreciation for what Jackson Pollock was trying to... express.

[@dannicatzer305]

Your first thought was correct..

[@theangelbelow88]

"LeeROOOOOOOOOOY!... Pollock"

[@Orlandovictory42]

For October, I think Edward Gorey would be an awesome bio if you haven't done him yet. 🎃

[@johnstevenson9956]

No matter what my first grader tries to paint, the floor ends up looking like a Jackson Pollock.

[@JustanOlGuy]

When Simon said Navajo my synapses shut down! Nav-uh-hoh, Simon.

[@marjolainem09]

I love love LOVE Pollock's paintings!! 😍😍😍🥰

[@twocvbloke]

Once went* to an art gallery, they didn't appreciate my saying "What a load of Pollocks"... :P (*I've never actually been to an art gallery........)

[@mangot589]

I’m not an art person, but I gave it try once. The result was a guard following us around, dirty looks and everything. I guess we weren’t being reverent enough. We weren’t being loud or obnoxious or anything.🤷‍♀️

[@jamesjacocks6221]

I do like the 2CV, it's minimalism in a very pure form. Funny that someone who likes French cars and minimalism makes disparaging comments about art. There is no rule that makes art conform, quite the reverse truthfully.

[@The-Q-T-TRAVELLING-MAN]

Hey Simon Can you do some Canadian history videos?

[@myinfinity309]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! Jackson Pollock is my absolute favorite painting artist!!!!

[@honestcritic1000]

Great video! But could you guys consider doing more biographies on African and Middle Eastern historical figures. I feel that is a rich area that could be explored more.

[@fademusic1980]

The fractal nature of pollock has to be one of the most interesting things to come out of the modern art movement

[@organicod2438]

Sounds like absolute rubbish, actually. Also, the person who came up with the Fractal theory was funded by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation to do the research. The L.A. Times had a brief article about it in 2006 called "A Fractal Fracture over true Pollocks".

[@SabbathSOG]

Jason Pollock's paintings if you will is evidence of the decadence of modern art. There were an art teacher in college that put a picture of Pollacks painting up in the front of the class. He asked the class to write what they thought about the Jackson Pollock painting. After collecting the papers from the students waxing eloquently about the artist's work, the teacher had to tell them that it was just a picture of his apron. Evidence that Pollock's stuff is garbage.

[@Cminustube]

Or evidence that just because someone is in college, doesn't mean that they aren't idiots.

[@picolete]

He was just CIA propaganda to contrarest the KGB one, mostly El Lissitzky, but then it back fired

[@taskdon769]

The teacher should have tried Cy Twombly's garbage.

[@judochopmaster8233]

I will not stop asking. Please make more videos covering the people in the American Civil War, for example; Thomas Jackson, better known as Stonewall General William T. Sherman, who I really couldnt say anything about without someone getting pissed Confederate President Jefferson Davies Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, who commanded the first African-American Regiment in the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant, who needs no introduction Etc. I just wish there were more videos that tackled the people in the Civil War on your channel

[@TheLycanSubscriber]

Can we get a video on Tecumseh, please? No rush, but he is a very interesting character

[@jamesoniris2647]

I love the paintings by "Action Jackson." I never knew about his interesting history though. Could you possibly make a biographic on the 16th century novelist, Miguel de Cervantes?

[@jmj7599]

More like these please!

[@alizcsabradi9658]

Janet Sobel was the first who use drip painting technique so it would be great that we don't forget about her!

[@keithkrazy]

great show , ..... TOO MANY ADS .

[@ivegotajousyaccent99]

You should do videos on the various figures around the Sengoku Jidai, Japan’s warring states period, the golden age of samurai warfare. Tokugawa Ieyasu, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi to name a few!

[@jonthrelkeld2910]

Pollock's "art" is art as Hostess Twinkies are to food.

[@brodybazzini6729]

This guy really dripped paint and said, "yup, that's art right there." Its literally a nothing burger. It doesn't deserve to be sold for millions.

[@SoapinTrucker]

"beauty is in the eye of the beholder!"

[@lucasbruh5690]

Can you do one on Gerry adams the leader of the IRA

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@evelynsobel9373]

Howdy. Could you please do a biographic on my great grandmother Janet Sobel? She directly influenced Jackson Pollock

[@claudiaquintero2937]

Thank you for this.

[@Kaktusbusk]

Could you please do one on Abbie Hoffman? Such an interesting character

[@ibnyahud]

Biographic on Haym Solomon please. Hardly anyone knows who he is and his fascinating story was pivotal to the US revolution.

[@jacobdrollinger4802]

Seems anyone with a troubled life can be a great artist!

[@jamesjacocks6221]

Well, I haven't become one, at least as far as I can see...

[@christbanner3219]

My son did similar paintings when he was 3 years old. Pollock hold his beer.

[@eugeneviljoen8513]

Great video on Pollock! For the most part art is subjective, not objective. Art such as that of Pollock should be viewed without bias. My personal opinion (which might be a bit harsh) is that if you aren't trained in art, then you can't truly voice an informed opinion. This style is among others called Abstract Expressionism for a reason, a style which I myself prefer. Shortly before my daughter was born two months ago I painted three abstract paintings for her room, the paintings are soft and light. When I am anxious my movements on a canvas are quicker and harsher. It takes skill to create organised chaos. A six year old won't take weeks with a canvas to finish it.

[@paulmanson253]

You have need to create. Good for you. However,I do take issue with your opinion there. An artist must be able to communicate with an audience. An audience of 1 if he is Pope Julius II and the artist is Michaelangelo. Whether the audience needs training and education to appreciate that art is a dialogue that goes back and forth,now more than ever. By all means create for yourself. Internal satisfaction is the bottom line in the act of creating. If you can achieve an audience, so much the better. But do not lose sight of any other citizens right to walk away or ignore or misinterpret what you do. Many years ago,I took history of art,1st year survey course,hung out with the lecturer and some very talented art students. There were too many arrogant young people who took the opinion that the public needed to come to them. And only they,the artist had the right to define the meaning and quality. That irked me. Most of us need to be able to enjoy what we see to call it art. I think it is up to the artist to reach out.

[@unchillada5858]

For every stubborn artist that remains committed to their personal vision there are a hundred more artists who are making work that appeals to a broader public in order to sell more work for profit, and both these personalities are fine. Most artists begin as audience members themselves and continue to be the audience of other's work. The world is not short of audiences. I think that those young students were neglectful to realize that their peers were the best audience for them at that moment. Maybe they were a little too anxious to find validation, but that has always been a defining trait of ambitious artists so who can blame 'em

[@paulmanson253]

@@unchillada5858 In all fairness,none had ever worked for a living. High school,then university, selected by committee as they were talented. As you suggest,adult life was about to give them a hard lesson as to their financial worth. Many young artists graduate, few find a niche ,at least directly,that pays. And I never followed their subsequent adult careers. Still,it irked me that young adults would be that arrogant. Now I think on it,one did meet up with me by way of my brother. She was props and wardrobe mistress to a city playhouse. And very happy there. Focussed creativity and a budget and modifying old sets and building new ones and interacting with theatre people,all professional level. So for some ,life can give them a rewarding amount of creativity and hard work. And,memory just in,I remember another. Very talented. Valedictorian. Saw him walking the streets of Vancouver,a junkie,many years later. Life can be very hard,with strange twists and turns. And random. So perhaps letting a young art student set their own standards is a so what. Levelling will happen later.

[@quantumfoam539]

A video of Rembrandt please??🙏

[@ah2451]

If your art is indistinguishable from what a six-year old makes in kindergarten, does it really belong in a museum?

[@jenniferzwick8628]

I think what most people have a hard time putting to words is the story behind the artist sells most modern art almost as much as the work. Someone sold him after seeing it. Warhol is the same. You could even say American art all has a sales component to it

[@ah2451]

@@jenniferzwick8628 who cares about the artists story when their art is crap? It takes no skill or discipline to create modern art, it's just meaningless scribbles.

[@Tearyatobitz]

I ain’t never seen a 6 year old do anything even similar. They’d probably get bored after a few minutes

[@barrydysert2974]

@@jenniferzwick8628 💜Well Phrased!:-)💜

[@RetroAP]

If it's so easy, do it 🤷‍♂️ If it's such an easy gig that makes artists millions in exchange for "crap" then what's stopping you?

[@ferociousgumby]

Jackson Pollock, a. k. a. "Jack the Dripper"

[@bnastali]

Thank you for this great post.

[@TappanZee1234]

Please create a video on Mark Rothko.

[@joelmontsdeoca3414]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Thank you. Could you possibly do one about Anne Frank?

[@laurabergman6674]

More artists please!!??

[@stungus]

Here some interesting suggestions that might make for some good episodes!: Pablo Picasso Tupac Shakur Christopher Wallace Marshall Mathers Big L Shigeru Miyamoto Yugii Naka Gunpei Yokoi Sotoru Iwata Thought it would be cool to see you dip your toes into the history of early hip-hop and how much influence they had on music as a whole moving forward! Also Pablo Picasso because he's one of my favorite 20th century painters, and Nintendo's developers have some very rich history as well👍

[@toddaulner5393]

Simon, i think it would be interesting if you did one on Outsider Art.

[@shlomster6256]

Really well written!

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

Henry Hudson: England's Greatest Explorer

[@yesacoustic]

Autumn Rhythm is very good but where was Blue Poles? Oz gov. paid a record price for a US artist way back in the day about $1.3 m. Apparently it's worth about $350m now.

[@sanityd1]

We should sell that junk and build something

[@yesacoustic]

@@sanityd1 I'm not sure. Whilst all that dough is caught up in the NGA, it's not in Palmer's pocket.

[@cooperwesley1536]

Pollock reinvented art in the same way that da Vinci and Picasso did. He was a genius.

[@MosoKaiser]

The algorithm knows... Got a mid-video ad for Bauhaus, a hardware store. :D

[@SgtD85]

Pollock was a hack. I loved pissing my professors off anytime there was a mess in the studio. I'd correct them and tell them its not a mess it a Pollock.

[@Johnm.499]

I think I have seen his work in an RV because the people that had his work or basically trying to do " traveling Art Museum" or something like that

[@Johnm.499]

This is because of some sort of problem of actual Museum and the schools that I was going to have this experience with

[@caynebyron]

Thought this was about Jackson Publick for a second and got excited.

[@MrZip420]

sooo i'm just wondering why Simon hasn't done a q&a video yet. he really should i bet we have many questions to ask him

[@ericlcornwell]

It’s all cocaine and KFC.

[@MrZip420]

@@ericlcornwell ah well, good enough for me. thanks for the q&a!

[@samkrieger609]

The original “I can’t paint” painter.

[@isaiahmartinez4221]

Can you do one on Basquiat?

[@kelerews]

I have to be honest, his early expressionist work is amazing and I don't even like abstract paintings... but that dripping paint and action painting is horseshit... looks good tho

[@juanroth2940]

Love Pollock's paintings

[@johnnyspaceout9928]

Have to do one of Francis Beacon please!🙏

[@theadhouse]

the best critique of his work is that it is "fractal" in nature, regardless of the scale, it really looks the same... never liked him nearly as much as Rothko, but he was a very fine artist nonetheless

[@tiadiad]

17:57 He was hammered, and thought it looked cool.. Sorry fellas, but that’s about it.

[@johnahern1077]

It did, and it does “look cool”. Like or dislike...the realm of the non artist. The artist alone declares a work art or not art.

[@tiadiad]

@@johnahern1077 Following your logic, what makes an artist? Claiming to be one?

[@brianwilliams9605]

In Australia in 1973 our prime minister Gough Whitlam paid 1.3m for a Jackson Pollock called Blue Poles. The country went what has that dingbat done. Today the value is 130m. Gough wasn't a dingbat but more a clever bugger.

[@patrickarchibald6787]

Im from Melbourne and love this story. My parents were furniture designers and we had many art books in the house when I was a kid, one had Blue Poles in it. It was the director of the national gallery who bought it. From memory, it cost just over a million at the time, a lot of money.

[@socialswine3656]

yeah i went to Canberra and saw it last year. Starred at it for almost an hour. genuinely breathtaking seeing it IRL

[@rickkennett3192]

@@socialswine3656 A few years ago I was at the art museum in Canberra where I had a good stare at Blue Poles and so got my tax money's worth.

[@jamesmatthew1903]

Pollock is everything wrong with modern "art". Literally anyone can paint a Pollock, we all learned how in kindergarten.

[@shakiMiki]

You don't know how small your world is.

[@jamesmatthew1903]

@@shakiMiki lol please, enlighten me with what you've told by your professors. Nothing pedestrian about uncritically repeating what others have told you. Im sure that bfa was money well spent.

[@christineparis5607]

I remember reading how insulted people were by picasso experimenting in cubism...they claimed he didn't know how to draw a figure, that "anyone" could do it. Picasso was classically trained and was taking everything he learned to break it down into new forms and look at nature in a different way. I'm explaining this to you because "anyone" can't make a Pollack, there is something different about his work, that maybe you cannot see, but it is still there. At the turn of the 20th century, there were riots in Paris when the expressionists showed and when the Fauvist came out. People always get angry when threatened by new ideas.

[@shakiMiki]

@@jamesmatthew1903 That you write: "... enlighten me with what you've told by your professors. Nothing pedestrian about uncritically repeating what others have told you. Im sure that bfa was money well spent.." suggests you struggle with English as well as art. You are clearly an intellectually insecure man.

[@jamesmatthew1903]

@@christineparis5607 you can't tell a Pollock from literally anyone else's paint dribbles. "Art" that requires a degree to appreciate isn't art. Pollack isn't a "new idea", it's redefining what constitutes "art" as a way of gatekeeping what used to be the exclusive domain of the wealthy. The common man can see this for what it is: degenerate trash anyone can produce.

[@BobbyDukeArts]

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[@jishk8980]

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[@expeditiousgrim]

Can you please consider doing a video on the Chicago 8? The events of the trial and what happened?

[@charleshitchens1096]

Never mentioned "17A" Pollock's most valuable painting.

[@johntuck77]

Degenerate Art - the only description I have for this type of art

[@RetroAP]

Hm, a term coined by nazis! What does that make you?

[@unchillada5858]

@@RetroAP Probably a pragerU graduate

[@RetroAP]

@@unchillada5858 ahaha yeah probably

[@seanbrazell6147]

When I think Pollock, I picture Ed Harris's face. Fantastic video, you should start another channel on art and art history in this format.

[@sschmidtevalue]

The channel "The Art Assignment" has a series of deep dives into art history, including Jackson Pollock.

[@brainsareus]

Whether random or not, just try doing it. It's not so easy.

[@SoapinTrucker]

Guarantee you, Pollock laughed all the way to the bank! LoL 😂

[@keithninesling6057]

Hardly. Even though a few of Pollock's paintings fetched decent prices after 1951 or so until his death, works sold in the 1940s were decidedly underpriced. It wasn't until after his death that his market value reached par with that of European modernist painters. The most money Pollock got for a painting in his lifetime was somewhere between $6,800 and $8,500 (accounts of this vary) for Blue Poles, purchased around 1953. However, just a couple of years after his death, One, painted in 1949, fetched $30,000. It wasn't until the late 1960s and early 1970s that the prices on his works escalated dramatically.

[@alwayschillin9524]

That had to be the hardest puzzle to put together

[@annescholey6546]

Brilliantly played by Ed Harris

[@myfreakyvalentine]

Acted and directed. I love that movie, have seen it so many times.

[@johnelrick8945]

Watch film of Jack the Dripper paint and you'll see, after the initial, gestural paint, he reverts to a more careful application of paint, carefully selecting the colours and where the paint goes. Blue Poles is a masterpiece.

[@unchillada5858]

100% Blue Poles is my favorite Pollock

[@John-mw3jf]

Another title might be. " the emperors new clothes"

[@RichMitch]

Ah, I see you've dropped a Pollock

[@martijndaem4074]

IDEA for a future BIOGRAPHICS EPISODE ; King Willem van oranje , and during the 80 years war (against Spain ) when he was murdered

[@skylerspringsteen5730]

You should do a biography on Buffalo bill Cody!

[@erfanderiss855]

Could you do a biography on ayatollah khamemei? Who is he and is he good or bad? What do you think?