June 12, 2007

• Ok! Who out there knows who Jackson Pollock is?

  This is Jackson Pollock.

  

  I am not a big fan of abstract art, it just doesn’t move me. So I have never really paid a lot of attention to his works until recently I rented a movie called.

  Who The #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?

  This woman… a truck driver and thrift store queen finds a painting at a thrift store and thinks it is the ugliest thing in the world but buys it anyway. Only to be told later as she is trying to sell it at a yard sale that it may be a Jackson Pollock.

  

  

  These ^^^ Are Jackson Pollock’s.

  So she sets off on a quest to find out if what she has bought at a junk store is the real deal.

  Of course every person to look at it in the art world wanted it’s provenance… she had none… a thrift store does not a great pedigree make apparently.

  NOW FOR THE SPOILERS*********IF YOU HAVE ANY INTENTION OF WATCHING THIS FILM*

  ANY AT ALL***********************TURN BACK NOW*********************************

  Alright still here?

  Good so… after being told over and over that it is a fake and it isn’t real… She takes it to a forensic specialist who finds a print on it that matches a print he has found on a reproduction Pollock.

  The art world still refuses to believe it is real… so the guy goes to Pollock’s studio where he finds a finger print on one of JP’s brush can’s… A perfect match to the painting… he also finds paints that are of the same chemical make up as those on the thrift store painting.

  Ok… so in my mind done deal right?

  NO! The art world still refuses to recognize it as a JP?!?! HUH?  If the same evidence had been found on a dead body, Jackson Pollock would be n prison for murder…  If he were still alive that is.

  The art specialists’  insist that a finger print means nothing. That it isn’t a signature.

  again… HUH?

  So in the mean time the same forensic specialist has been allowed to examine an original painting WITH provenance, and found  finger print…  It is again a match.

  Still no one will say her painting is the real deal.

  She has been offered a great deal of money for it, nothing like what it would sell for if proven real.

   Are you ready?

  This is it, below, the one that she owns.

  For this painting that looks like something I may have done in grade school, that was found for five dollars at a thrift store…

  

  50 MILLION DOLLARS.

  If it is a real Jackson Pollack it would be worth 50MILLION dollars… yup, that’s what I said.

  What? Say it again… 50 MILLION DOLLARS…

  So people what do you think?

  Would a finger print be good enough for YOU?

  Should a finger print be considered a signiture?

  This also brings up another question.

  If you saw the painting at a yard sale and knew what it was or could be, would you say anything to the seller?

  WELL! I think I will hit some thrift stores and see what I find.

  The moral of the story?

  Ummm… If you see it and think it is really ugly buy it? ( It actually does look like something I would buy, most of you who know me know that, for 5$ not 50 MILLION!!! Sorry that part just stumps me. )

  THOUGHTS HERE PLEASE.

   

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