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…
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.