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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
I can see where you're coming from since looking at "Lucifer", for example, really forces people to confront their perception/conception of what art is about. Most of these conceptions are rooted in image representation, classical forms, Renaissance-based realism, etc. However, Pollock's art is not the finished painting itself--it is the PROCESS of the painting. The term for this is "action art". This is what marks a massive departure from representational art and art being focused on the product itself. It also heralds the rise of 'experiential art' as seen through many art installments.
Whatever anger and confusion Pollock's art elicits, one thing is indisputable--the rise of Abstract Expressionism (of which "action art" is one subset) in the USA moved the center of the art world from Paris to New York. From continental Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, and Deconstructivism to a uniquely American sensibility. It also marks the rise of a distinctly American take on art criticism as evidenced in Clement Greenberg's work.
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I understand people's views on abstraction and why they themselves may consider it an art, but to me painting is a skill, a gift if you will. Something to be respected. If you want to look at painting as philosophy, great, but to me it is not in the same realm as the classical styles. Thought provoking as it may be, it is still nothing more than kindergarten paint dabbling to me. If the goal of impressionism is to instill a feeling inside the viewer, they have been successful. i have never felt more rage than wwhile looking at a Pollock painting and thinking "Some fucker would pay millions for this garbage". The point at which art became more about the idea and less about the product itself is where I really lost my interest in it as a whole. I really do enjoy certain levels of abstract imagery. Cubism & Fauvism as art movements were great. I can respect the Cubists and Dadaists for their contributions, their influence on classical surrealists was massive. You can be abstract in your art without compromising your skill. But Abstract Impressionism is just, well, an unskilled man's art. A thinker perhaps, an artist no. At least in my eyes...