I followed you, subscribed, and pledged, because as an amateur vexillologist who has also written about the LGBLT flag—or whatever they’re calling that rag at the moment—I could do no other. kudos.
I understand the comparison of course to the mishmash. I find Pollock very relaxing, but my parents had a lot of prints of modern art in the house when I was a small child so I associate it with family. I want a Bob Ross / Thomas Kinkaid / Margaret Keane paint off one day.
Thanks for that. I like your posts. Keep them coming. Yeah, all I know about Pollock I learned from the movie. And I thought, wow, what a gig, slopping paint all over a canvas, then selling it for millions of dollars. I could do that. And I had a few jazz musician friends as a young man back in the 70s who 'played' canvases at art shows. Usually two or three of them, they stood around a piece of art like Pollock's and blared and trilled their brass and reeds. WWII was so horrible those who returned either became artists like Pollock, Hells Angels, or suburbanite family men like my Dad, who led quiet lives, watering their lawns in the early evening like machine gunners spraying bullets at Nazis or Japanese soldiers.
I followed you, subscribed, and pledged, because as an amateur vexillologist who has also written about the LGBLT flag—or whatever they’re calling that rag at the moment—I could do no other. kudos.
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LOL, thanks for teaching me a new word, vexillologist.
I'll look up your post.
Thanks for subscribing (confused about the pledge since I'm free), until.. the day when I enrage you, which I surely will.
In this my seventh decade, I’m not much given to rage. But you could well earn an occasional roll of the eyes…
About the pledge, Substack gave me that option and thought: Why not?
One of my favorite words - vexillology - along with all collective nouns - an unkindness of ravens, a suppuration of zombies (my word).
Thank God for Thomas Kinkade eh? Little known fact, he married Margaret Keane and they worked for Hanna-Barbara as background cel artists.
I don't dislike all modern art. Kincade isn't my cup of tea either.
I understand the comparison of course to the mishmash. I find Pollock very relaxing, but my parents had a lot of prints of modern art in the house when I was a small child so I associate it with family. I want a Bob Ross / Thomas Kinkaid / Margaret Keane paint off one day.
I've actually sort of come around to Pollock and have been meaning to write about it, but other things have come in the way.
Thanks for that. I like your posts. Keep them coming. Yeah, all I know about Pollock I learned from the movie. And I thought, wow, what a gig, slopping paint all over a canvas, then selling it for millions of dollars. I could do that. And I had a few jazz musician friends as a young man back in the 70s who 'played' canvases at art shows. Usually two or three of them, they stood around a piece of art like Pollock's and blared and trilled their brass and reeds. WWII was so horrible those who returned either became artists like Pollock, Hells Angels, or suburbanite family men like my Dad, who led quiet lives, watering their lawns in the early evening like machine gunners spraying bullets at Nazis or Japanese soldiers.
I didn't see the movie. I should, why not?
Pollock didn't sell his canvases for much, mostly he was pretty insolvent & Peggy Guggenheim gave him a stipend.
My Dad was a WW2 vet as well and he was averse to all adventure after that.
Yay! First to like your post!
[I hope the humor behind this sentiment does not go unpunished.]
There was humor in the article, but I'm serious about the new rainbow flag. I really think that Pollock is perfect.