Climate activists vandalize a Jackson Pollock but no one notices
(babylonbee.com)
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I remember when I was 12, and on the “government-sponsored” mandatory field trip to the national capital (I assume other countries have the same).
We went to the National Gallery (of Australia), and were toured around. I specifically remember being shown Pollock’s “Blue Poles”, which was, I believe, the most expensive artwork purchased by an Australian government, at the time (1972-75, was when they bought it), and is given pride of place in a gallery which, frankly, is full of utter shit…
The cost, paid by the taxpayer at the time, was something obscene. Maybe $50 mill (or maybe that was its value when I saw it. Dunno)..?
And I just remember distinctly thinking how patently absurd that was, and how, yeah, maybe the urinal artist guy who we were learning about around the same time had a point…
It’s just… Almost objectively a bit shit. But it is worth tens of millions. Because Pollock…
Ah, “modern” art…
Postmodernists and elitists adore modern art because it supports all of their high-minded delusions. It's entirely subjective, and can be given meaning only by the person looking at it. As opposed to a landscape or a portrait, which has a meaning in and of itself because it portrays something real and intrinsically relatable. That's why ordinary people like traditional art; because it tells a story.
But the megalomaniacal elitists love the subjectivity of modern art because it is inherently nihilistic. It works the way they think the universe works: a formless, meaningless existence which can only be given meaning by them. And it makes them feel superior, to think that they're the only ones smart enough to understand that. It's never occurred to them that most people have actually thought about it and rejected it.
It turned out to be a psyop. The USSR was promoting 'realistic' paintings of people happily working in fields, so the US promoted stuff like Pollack.
Add in money laundering, and bribery schemes and you have modern art.
Have you actually looked at Soviet Realist works? The Kakistocracy was in full effect.
Wikipedia says $1.3 million. Which is still a price that should have seen Mr. Whitlam flogged like a child who came home from market with a handful of magic beans.
Yeah that’s definitely better (though accounting for inflation, it’s still a lot), ahaha… It’s very on brand for Gough, though, isn’t it? Like, you really couldn’t get much more Gough than something like that, except, ohh, I dunno, nationalizing the local cinema (he unironically did do that, in my hometown, lol)… Ahh, Gough…
Edit: Note to self, typing comments after red wine is ill-advised… Which is… Somewhat ironic, in this instance.
A scam and a con
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