04-06-2007, 06:13 PM
Well, I don't want to argue with you, because you've got your mind made up, but I would be very careful about passing any sort of judgment on a painter based on a picture you've seen on the internet. Pollack's paintings don't look like much on a screen because they're paintings. They're three dimensional and meaty and often huge. I've spent hours looking at a single Pollack at the National Gallery or the Seattle Art Museum or wherever, because it can be an intense and emotional experience. I don't know what you think
The reason I couldn't stay interested in Escher is that he doesn't have the emotional impact that other artists have. I was probably 25 years old before I ever saw a painting that made me feel something profound, but once that happened, I really couldn't go back to Dali and Escher and Giger.
higher artmeans, but for me, it's about feeling a strong connection to an artist who has managed to communicate something truthful about themselves through a piece of artwork, and it's about learning something valuable about who I am through that experience. Really good artists, like Pollack, can make that happen. Abstraction and expressionism aren't just a fad or a vogue, because we'll never run out of artists who have their own unique point of view, and with luck, some of them will always be talented.
The reason I couldn't stay interested in Escher is that he doesn't have the emotional impact that other artists have. I was probably 25 years old before I ever saw a painting that made me feel something profound, but once that happened, I really couldn't go back to Dali and Escher and Giger.