$150,000,000 for this ...

The most expensive painting in the world..a Jackson Pollock

LoL

Edit: slightly bigger blowup of it...

Some people need to waste their money on other crap, or perhaps I'm just not appreciating the 'art' in this swashbucket painting

It does actually look kinda cool when you put your mind to it...

Mmmmm...I love how despite the chaotic nature of its creation Pollack always manages to perfectly balance all the colors. All those muted tones and then that bold swath of yellow swimming through it desperately crying out for attention but yet not fully able to. I like it a lot more than the paintings he has involving an all out war involving primary colors.

Lame.

ZzZzZz......

That's pretty stupid.. a four year old could make that with their eyes closed. i would actually like it if it were more colourful.

If I had any desire whatsoever to have that I would just make it myself. Anybody could do it

looks like something that came out of my assassinations

I'd have that for my room but to be honest..I wouldnt even spend more than £10 for it.

Always found his work hard to enjoy. I can respect it, but find it difficult to engage with the style.

Also 150mil is a bit excessive for anything - it could end being more expensive than the building it was housed in.

My favourite is Blue Poles

^^^^ I can actually see talent in that peice unlike the other, thats not to say I would pay money for it tho.

I don't understand, why not pay 149,999,980 less for a copy, you would not even be able to tell the difference unless you so close ur basically kissing it.

Mmmmm...I love how despite the chaotic nature of its creation Pollack always manages to perfectly balance all the colors. All those muted tones and then that bold swath of yellow swimming through it desperately crying out for attention but yet not fully able to. I like it a lot more than the paintings he has involving an all out war involving primary colors.

Lord_Daemon

Wow. Newfound respect for you.

Okay.. 1 min of hard labor for this... I call it Crapo Magnifico... my inspiration was... I saw ahhh red, and ahh yellow.. and I ahhhh, decided... yes.., yes this will do.. ahh s---plotch here, and ah one there.. Perfecto! Masterpiece!.

Gimme 156million right now. (this random looking crap.. is NOT ART)

(3 mins of work, re-did stuff to make it.. 'prettier')

(this random looking crap.. is NOT ART)Inconsistancy

lol who barfed on the painting? :P

My Inspiration? Dikes at their purist, cats swinging against muffled trees, the gulp of disbelief as you wake up from seasonal clown, that awakening smell of petrolium as you pass the pizza library.

...All for the low price of 300 billion.

Art is fantastic. I drank a bit too much today during Australia Day celebrations and created my own Pollock masterpiece... on the pavement outside!nowayjose09

I'm just gonna take it that you pissed on the sidewalk? :P

My Inspiration? Dikes at their purist, cats swinging against muffled trees, the gulp of disbelief as you wake up from seasonal clown, that awakening smell of petrolium as you pass the pizza library.

...All for the low price of 300 billion.

tim22000

Your a bit to late my friend. About 95 years too late. Kazimir Malevich already did the same thing. Well it was a black square but you get the idea

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Your a bit to late my friend. About 95 years too late. Kazimir Malevich already did the same thing. Well it was a black square but you get the idea

My Inspiration? Dikes at their purist, cats swinging against muffled trees, the gulp of disbelief as you wake up from seasonal clown, that awakening smell of petrolium as you pass the pizza library.

...All for the low price of 300 billion.

Jesus_on_fire

Black? What a F%^&* genious!

That is not art. There was this news show where they had atoddler paint on a canvas. They then showed it to art critics and told them it was some long lost painting from some famous artist. The critics absolutely loved the painting. They were told later on it was done by a toddler and none of them had a comment. Wish I could remember this video, but it was years and years ago. Just goes to show you how people fool themselves to believing something as scribble that my child can do, millionaires will call art as long as you attach a famous name to it.

That is not art. There was this news show where they had atoddler paint on a canvas. They then showed it to art critics and told them it was some long lost painting from some famous artist. The critics absolutely loved the painting. They were told later on it was done by a toddler and none of them had a comment. Wish I could remember this video, but it was years and years ago. Just goes to show you how people fool themselves to believing something as scribble that my child can do, millionaires will call art as long as you attach a famous name to it.

feryl06

I got some sneakers that go with that painting 8)

I appreciate art like The Scream and The Mona Lisa but these? Nope, not a chance. They may be "art" but not the art that deserves to be recognized.Kenny789

The price is a little too high, but Jackson Pollock was still an amazing artist. Just because you don't understand the importance of his work to the world of art, doesn't mean this painting is meaningless. Pollock was one of the Vanguards of American abstract art in the 20th century. He was making paintings like this in the 1940s when mainstream art still considered form and function to be critical elements of a work of art. Even great Abstract artists like Kandinsky and Mark Rothko used form to define their work. Pollock completely destroyed that concept by converting his canvas into a chaotic, random, formless abstraction. With a single whip of his brush, he forever stripped away the notion that form and structure were needed to express creative thought.

[QUOTE="Kenny789"]I appreciate art like The Scream and The Mona Lisa but these? Nope, not a chance. They may be "art" but not the art that deserves to be recognized.Jandurin

I appreciate art like The Scream and The Mona Lisa but these? Nope, not a chance. They may be "art" but not the art that deserves to be recognized.Kenny789

I agree with this.

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Mmmmm...I love how despite the chaotic nature of its creation Pollack always manages to perfectly balance all the colors. All those muted tones and then that bold swath of yellow swimming through it desperately crying out for attention but yet not fully able to. I like it a lot more than the paintings he has involving an all out war involving primary colors.

priestinacloset

Lol! I can do this too! But I won't get 150 millions for it :( Seriously, I just can't understand the artists...

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Mmmmm...I love how despite the chaotic nature of its creation Pollack always manages to perfectly balance all the colors. All those muted tones and then that bold swath of yellow swimming through it desperately crying out for attention but yet not fully able to. I like it a lot more than the paintings he has involving an all out war involving primary colors.

Darthmatt

ZzZzZz......

Blazerdt47

Also...ZZZZZZ... lol.

[QUOTE="Kenny789"]I appreciate art like The Scream and The Mona Lisa but these? Nope, not a chance. They may be "art" but not the art that deserves to be recognized.Snipes_2

I agree with this.

exactly, that painting is pure garbage. Imagine if God created the world like that. My point is, we know the difference between what is beautiful and what is not, and you have to be extremely uppity to even pay 1 cent for that crap. Someone would have to pay me in order to take it. That is unless, if I wouldnt be able to sell it for profit ;)

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[QUOTE="Kenny789"]I appreciate art like The Scream and The Mona Lisa but these? Nope, not a chance. They may be "art" but not the art that deserves to be recognized.peaceoutmedusa

I agree with this.

exactly, that painting is pure garbage. Imagine if God created the world like that. My point is, we know the difference between what is beautiful and what is not, and you have to be extremely uppity to even pay 1 cent for that crap. Someone would have to pay me in order to take it. That is unless, if I wouldnt be able to sell it for profit ;)

While I can appreciate that there's a lot of technique that can go into it I just don't consider that art.

Edit: Actually that's not what I came into here at all to say. What I was going to say is that it doesn't look pleasing to my eye and so it's not worth anything to me, blah blah blah eye of the beholder; and that I wouldn't like someone's work to be called "Art" because a group of snobby rich people decided to pay millions of dollars for it when a $5 painting in some street fair looks a whole lot better.