I don't want to sound rude but I don't think you know what you are talking about. Of course art is subjective and I know even some professional artists who don't like Pollock but to say he was trolling is just ignorant.
Theres great movement and rythm in his paintings and while it looks like something everyone could do I'll assure that it would be very hard to produce something that looks like his works. Theres a lot going on in his paintings and you can look at them closely and from a far and you'll always find new and interesting shapes and forms going on, a lot of them happened of course by accident but that is one of the great things in creating art.
Also one reason why Pollock is considered one of the greatest artist of his time is that he created and painted in a way that had never been done before. You cant do what he did anymore because you'd be just copying him. That is something that every artist hopes to do but very few succeed at.
Also pollock's, Mondrian's and Duchamp's work require a lot more from the viewer than more traditional art, like paintings from the old masters, I think you have to really be into art and know something about art history to truly appreciate their work. The more you look at different art and the more you go to galleries the more your taste develops.
When you really open up your eyes and start to look you can see the beauty in things that appear simple and mundane at first glance. Not everyone will be able to do that or want to do that and thats fine too.
But like I said before art is subjective and not everyone is going to like the same things, personally I find Duchamp's work really boring but I can appreciate what he was trying to do.
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slimone (7996)
6 years ago
Very well said. A lot of artists like Dali, Pollock, Munch, Haeckel and all of the abstract and some expressionist artists are not understood by many, but their art is is museums all over the world.
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