September 14th, 2009
‘The trouble is whatever it is about picures, photographs, it’s just about impossible to follow up with words. They don’t have anything to do with each other. Art, or what we call that… You can love it and appreciate it, but you can’t really talk about it. It doesn’t make any sense.’
– William Eggleston
August 20th, 2009
‘Craft, for me, has always been only to maintain trust. It’s like having a spiritual experience. You’re asking people to go along with this type of abstraction of communication, and you never want them to feel let down.’
– Jeff Koons
Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? poses some interesting questions besides the obvious one of whether the painting bought by Teri Horton for $5 is an authentic Jackson Pollock worth millions. It also offers good insight into the business of art, turning her quest of verifying its authenticity into a struggle against what comes across as art-world snobbishness.
Do you value a throw-away by an artist the same way as a great work of art? Initial impressions are that the painting possesses none of the magical properties of an authentic Pollock.
