Art-FART

Something struck me one day when I was at MoCA.  As I was staring at a Jackson Pollock painting and wondering what is art?  Then this couple walks pass by the Jackson Pollock painting and the girl in the cool cat red dress says to the guy with the green top hat goes...

Girl: "What is this?  I don't get it... what's the point?"

Guy: "Shhhhhhh...."

And then right there... it stuck me to understand that, ART is not about how good we can draw or sculpt... it is about emotion, a feeling, your interpretation... its about its the artist's own way of looking at things....

So I guess that is why Jackson Pollock's famous for putting his emotions into his colorful lines of drips in his paintings.  And for something like this from the 1940s to 1950's... is something truly daring, i mean to drip "messy" lines on a canvas and make a statement about it and call it art and make the public go "what the heck??" and gets a 4 page spread in the Time magazine, it truly Punk!

And becos of that maybe that's why there is a negative term use to describe artist sometimes .. An ART-FART... i don't really know what an art-fart really means, but to me it does sound like something negative.  Like the girl who snare at Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...  saying "i don't get it"  maybe she's thinking "What kind of pretense is this??? is just different lines of color dripping on a canvas... anyone can do that!"

  Here's what Mr. Pollock had to say about his technique...

"My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."

“ When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well."

So after reading this.... i might think that if the girl in the cool cat red dress read what Mr. Pollock had to say about his own painting... the girl in the cool cat red dress would say "ohhhhhhhMG... that's like so art-fart!"

Here's a custom made card holder for LvAndMe.  I chose the design with numbers, since she's an accountant and she chose the colors (its a very good match colors!).    Well the scratch up antique version is the one i first thought it would make it look cool, i try to make it like its found objects from the street...  But after LvAndMe gave me the "no-no" i have to swallow my pride and forget the antique look and retouch the numbers (hehehe).  It was silly of me to scratch it like antique... looking at the antique version, it does look messy (kind of incomplete)... hummmm lesson learn.  As for the final version, it still have the old 1950's look and brand new.

Well guys if your  out on your first date and try to impress your girl.... Don't just get her flowers, be creative!  Get a colorful gift for your future girlfriend or maybe your future wife... order a custom hand made art-toy for her and brighten up her day!

Enjoy every day and listen to some music!!!

Peace and God Bless Yo!