The Loose Association of Wargamers

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:49 am

(did you perhaps mean to say 'gargoyles' rather than "troglodytes"?).


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ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:19 am

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 9:56 am

ochoin wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 12:05 am

I have long been a fan of Action Expressionalism as created by the sublime Jackson Pollock:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... k-painting

donald

Errrrrm.............I'm not going to comment...........too easy.

Don't tell me you're one of the “I don't know much about art, but I know what I like” crowd?

EH Gombrich (famous art historian) wrote, "There are no bad reasons for liking art," So there!

Most art that gets praised today is forgotten in a few years. But Pollock has stood the test of time. We won't talk about the prices his work realises (very infra. dig. to judge art this way) but the fact he's given wall space in many prestigious art galleries, around the world.

I believe there's only one Pollock in the public domain in OZ - a work called " Blue Poles" which was supposedly painted by Pollock, totally inebriated, dripping paint on the canvas from his vantage point, hanging from the beams of the barn he used as a studio. I don't care. I've seen it several times & it's magnificent.

donald

Save you looking: https://www.artnet.com/artists/jackson- ... SVkqunXSQ2

Siller? The Incomparable Burns used this word so it's practically mainstream.

"The great folk hae siller, and hooses and lands..."

Essex Boy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:59 am
Nope. I was going to say that Mr Pollock clearly influences your painting of toy soldiers.........but then I thought better of it.