Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 06, 2022

That’s pretty clean. Mine has multi colours, ( from painting many rooms ), splotches from dropped rollers and brushes, spilled paint from pouring and a few tiny hand prints from the occasional little helper. It should sell for a fortune

This is exactly what I think of art “experts”. You can show them any old picture and they will go on and on about motives, moods, etc. Even if a 5-year-old stepped in paint and ran across the canvass.

I’ve seen a few Jackson Pollocks and, you know, there IS something about them…

That’s EXACTLY what my wife says about my art!

Somewhere, in the last couple of days (I think it was here at GC) someone said that Jackson Pollack’s paintings exhibited many characteristics of fractals, whereas “mere” splatters do not. I didn’t do any research on that, but can report the anecdote that I seldom see anything worth looking at on drop cloths… and find Pollack artwork at least moderately more interesting.

I have seen paint and ink spills which I knew to be accidental, but were nevertheless interesting.

When you look up at the night sky, it’s basically the same thing. Can’t beat it for beauty.

And he’ll get six figures for it.

Art is where you find it.

Better than any NFT.

There are many things called art, some of them are actually good.

What is that vase doing there? It actually looks like a vase, a usable vase!

Funny, though, I rather like it …

I hope the Guard signed it

Even more amusing when one considers Jackson Pollack painted his living room.

A few years ago, a couple of teenagers left a pair of glasses on the floor of a modern art gallery, and watched as patrons gathered around and took pictures of them.

Back in the 90’s, one of the government buildings in Atlanta (I think it was the Richard B. Russell building, but I’m not certain) was renovated. During the clean-up afterwards, the cleaning crew threw away a paint drop cloth. Well it turns out that the drop cloth was actually a $100K painting the government had commissioned for the building. The artist threw a hissy fit when he heard; my question was always, if art is indistinguishable from garbage, is it really art?

I vaguely remember this gag from a few years back

Would it matter? The dictionary defines art as, “the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.”

I would say his exposition qualifies and if he finds beauty and emotional stimulation in the drop cloth, why isn’t that art?

Saw a Pollock video of him spreading painting on a 4×8 plywood sheet. He was located in some backwoods cabin where the only access was by float plane. When the his painting was finished [how does one know?] he called in for pick up. Turns out the plane was too small to hold the full board. He just power sawed it into 4 pieces 2’x 4’ each, stacked them in the hold and sold each for the price of the full sheet. Now that’s art.

Then there was the case where the “painter” couldn’t pick his “work” out when it was pulled from the trash along with two drop clothes.

In a local brewpub that showcases local art & music I contemplated a rectangular piece that apparently was just painted white, no other color. Took me a few minutes to realize it was an acoustic panel for the performers!

When I was a very young man, I learned a very valuable lesson about art. An artist friend of mine was exhibiting some of his paintings at an open-air exhibit in Washington Square in NYC. He showed me two paintings and asked which I thought was the better painting. I selected one and he informed me that, in his opinion, I was correct. He’d labored for weeks to get it just right.

He put a $50 price tag on his masterpiece and a $500 price tag on the inferior work that he’d dashed off without much effort. He bet me that the inferior painting with the high price tag ($500 was a lot of money in those days) would sell first.

Of course, he was right! That painting sold on the first day of the show.

The other painting with the bargain price never sold. ( Years later, I learned that it eventually was sold in a gallery for $7,000. )

I knew someone who had framed a drop cloth and hung it on the wall because by chance all the colorful splotches made a pretty picture.

At least there’s something to look at. Some idiots have paid big bucks for invisible art.

I’ve always liked the stuff, but this style is in the past. The art world has moved on

and to think that Art degree that cost $100,000 was a waste…

Art is in the eye of the beholder. The value is what the market will bear. The irony is that many artists nearly starved to death, while they were alive, but now their works are worth millions.

In college, some friends and I pulled a similar stunt. It took the art department a couple days to figure out it wasn’t actually an “official” display.

Could be the start of a new career for him. Art is where you find it. His living room must look FANTASTIC!

“Come, ye sons of Art…

Shades of Jackson Pollock.

I’m truly sorry, but I couldn’t help but think of Hunter Biden"s art work.

There is an episode of Dr Who, where John Cleese and Eleanor Bron are in the Louvre staring at the TARDIS and going on about how wonderful of an art object it is. Suddenly the doctor and his party rush in and the TARDIS disappears. Both are even more in rapture with the piece.

Art is an expression of life. It doesn’t require you to like it. The critic, the ignorant, and clueless reveal more about themselves than the art they are hating on. Even “bad” art has some merit, just maybe not to you.

“MoMA”?

It expresses the deep existential angst of house painting.

Grandma Moses.where are you?You are desperately needed.

I saw a pricey piece in NYC’s Whitney Museum that was a good sized canvas painted all black. I would have eagerly painted it for 1/10th the price.

Art experts are the easiest to fool, as they are often looking for things that really don’t matter.

There is no right or wrong in art, though some of us may not understand what you like, it doesn’t mean it’s not good art. Same as, if you don’t like what I like, it doesn’t make it bad art.

I don’t have many real paintings, but my favorite is an unsigned painting on the back of a very old beechnut tobacco cardboard box that an artist painted for my Great grandfather. Thinking around the mid 1920’s. Story goes, they guy said he was an artist and he’d paint something for a drink. I have the painting. Don’t know if they guy ever got famous, the paint is cracked as cardboard is not the best thing to paint on. It’s titled Old Oaken Bucket. Don’t tell my mother, because I have few of her paintings, it’s my favorite. ;)

This toon sum up modern art quit well as a lot of bulls**t.

Gesundheit!!!

If he was painting his living room, why is most of the paint in the center?

We had our house painted recently, so I can relate.

Many years ago, I visited the MOMA and I step on to a white square. Little did I know, the square was “art”. I had not noticed the red rope around it. I was quickly corrected for my misstep, art is in the eye of the beholder.

Brutal, but too often true.

Hey, once it’s hanging there, it’s ART!