(no subject)
I just finished watching Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? - and it's fascinating. It's amazing to me that the "art world" is so...I don't know...political? Opinionated? I'm not sure what the word I'm looking for is. I'd read an article about this woman in the New York Times, but that was before the film - and more evidence has been discovered since then.
It's about this lower-class woman who bought a painting for $5 at a thrift store, and an art teacher told her that it might be a Pollock. She then went on a quest to have it verified. The "art world" saw her as a big joke for the most part - simply because of her circumstances. She eventually found a forensic scientist to help her out - and he matched a fingerprint from the canvas to a fingerprint on a can of paint from Pollock's studio (and later, to a fingerprint on an undisputed Pollock painting) along with paint analysis that matches it to paint in the studio. No one in the "art world" will accept it as a genuine painting - despite the scientific evidence - because it doesn't "feel" like a Pollock.
Amazing.
It's about this lower-class woman who bought a painting for $5 at a thrift store, and an art teacher told her that it might be a Pollock. She then went on a quest to have it verified. The "art world" saw her as a big joke for the most part - simply because of her circumstances. She eventually found a forensic scientist to help her out - and he matched a fingerprint from the canvas to a fingerprint on a can of paint from Pollock's studio (and later, to a fingerprint on an undisputed Pollock painting) along with paint analysis that matches it to paint in the studio. No one in the "art world" will accept it as a genuine painting - despite the scientific evidence - because it doesn't "feel" like a Pollock.
Amazing.