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post 1639375103 05-25-2021, 04:22 AM
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Roast my abstract art.

In an effort to make misc great again, I’ll give you the opportunity to make fun of my painting. I was going for something that resembled Jackson Pollock. Here is an example of his work.



I used whatever paint I could find in my house. I tried to get the essence of that painting, but did some detailing. I wanted faces, figures, and stories in there. You have to look closely to notice, and you either see them or you don’t.





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post 1639375363 05-25-2021, 04:37 AM
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Nice humble brag ******* they look identical
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post 1639375433 05-25-2021, 04:38 AM
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post 1639375543 05-25-2021, 04:43 AM
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Originally Posted By Jandels⏩
Nice humble brag ******* they look identical
Lol, I know how the misc feels about paintings like these. A 5 year old could do it, etc. I’ve never shared this kind of thing here before. And to put it in perspective, his work was much larger and harder to pull off, not to mention that he was the first to paint this way. His stuff is taking up huge walls in museums, mine is drying on a trash can.
post 1639375693 05-25-2021, 04:50 AM
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Dude, i'm gonna type as sober as possible, that honestly looks ****ing pathetic and digusting compared to my painting. and I'm being one hundred percent serious. Sorry we dont paint **** that was previously in cans. you're a ****ing joke dude, and im dead ****ing serious, im seriously.. dont eever potst your ****ing poverty painting on these forums ever the **** again bro, and by bro i mean never my bro, ****ing ***got.
post 1639375833 05-25-2021, 04:54 AM
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post 1639375863 05-25-2021, 04:55 AM
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It looks pretty good but I hate it, it also looks like chit but I like it.
post 1639375933 05-25-2021, 04:57 AM
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I'm not an abstract art conessour but was there deep thought behind this? Or did you just threw it all together?
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post 1639376163 05-25-2021, 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted By tunafishha⏩
I'm not an abstract art conessour but was there deep thought behind this? Or did you just threw it all together?
In my mind, I wanted it to look like a Pollock painting, but have visible figures. I intended to make them references to things like struggle, war, a night sky, God watching, organic shapes, and some allegorical elements. I pushed wet paint around to make faces appear, some human, some less so.
post 1639376363 05-25-2021, 05:09 AM
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Originally Posted By Adam16121⏩
In my mind, I wanted it to look like a Pollock painting, but have visible figures. I intended to make them references to things like struggle, war, a night sky, God watching, organic shapes, and some allegorical elements. I pushed wet paint around to make faces appear, some human, some less so.
Nice. I kinda see it now.
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post 1639376663 05-25-2021, 05:22 AM
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Looks like you just put random colored paint on a stick and smeared it on a canvas. Get on my level

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post 1639376843 05-25-2021, 05:28 AM
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Too much use of dark colors
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post 1639377003 05-25-2021, 05:34 AM
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Inb4 OP ends up selling it for $50 million.
post 1639377103 05-25-2021, 05:35 AM
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From my phone, I see that details get blurred out and you can’t see the figures I’m talking about. Here is a close up of one part. Still blurry, but easier to see figures.

post 1639377233 05-25-2021, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
Inb4 OP ends up selling it for $50 million.
Inb4 it’s on etsty for 6 years and gets sold for cost of canvas.
post 1639377363 05-25-2021, 05:43 AM
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will be worth bout 350 million when you die brah
post 1639377463 05-25-2021, 05:45 AM
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I’m not really into abstract art so why I’m commenting, I don’t know.

However, Pollocks paintings are actually quite impressive in real life.

Yours is wayyy to small brah. Also, try to piss on it for a more authentic copy.
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post 1639377733 05-25-2021, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted By Brosnbroccoli⏩
I’m not really into abstract art so why I’m commenting, I don’t know.

However, Pollocks paintings are actually quite impressive in real life.

Yours is wayyy to small brah. Also, try to piss on it for a more authentic copy.
I know this all too well brah. I was in the camp that this guy was total chit until I saw a painting IRL at the Museum of Modern Art. Totally different experience.
post 1639383513 05-25-2021, 07:29 AM
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I like it. I think personally you should paint your entire canvas black, beige, blue, etc...before starting on a foreground.

Even though your canvas will be primed, it will pop more if you cover every inch before you begin.
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I mean, it doesn't really take much talent to splatter paint on a canvas. That said, "paintings" like these often sell for stupid money, so what do I know.

Just make up some bullchit about how it represents the duality of the human condition and how you leveraged shape composition and color theory into enhance the the viewer's emotional response - boom, now you are an "artist".
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Originally Posted By verymuchalpha⏩
Can you describe the process of painting this? Did you splash paint all over it straight from the tube or bucket, or did you do numerous brush strokes? Also, what kind of paint did you use?
I tried to do what Pollock did, up to a point. I used dried up brushes and other random tools. The canvas was on the ground, and getting splatters like his obviously required throwing paint on the canvas with force. The lines/drip part required much more precision, and you’d have to let it drip to a certain point before you had the right “flow” come off of the brush. What I did differently from Pollock was touching the canvas. His painting was mostly done in the air, there were no brush strokes. Technically, I had none either, but I manipulated pooled up wet paint to flow in certain directions to create forms. And this was all done pretty quickly, so there was no dry paint involved in the process (canvas came primed). Thats why a lot of colors are mingling with one another.
Edit: I used household paint, the kind of stuff that was used to paint walls over the years. Some of it was quite old.
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Just make up some bullchit about how it represents the duality of the human condition and how you leveraged shape composition and color theory into enhance the the viewer's emotional response - boom, now you are an "artist".
Honestly, if I even tried to talk about theory I’d sound exactly like the potato that I am. I mostly just focused on what I learned about his technique, and then added my own to it.
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As someone that went to a highly prestigious arts school, I will say when I entered the thread I immediately thought "man that looks like a Pollock" then realizing the first pic actually was and then being quite surprised that yours was very good. Then the let down.......your painting is small. Part of Pollock's angle IMO is the scale at which he made his paintings. If your work was 4' x 8 ', I would totally hang it in my home.

Great job overall. Go bigger.

Just read the other posts....I posted prior to reading them all. So we all agree size matters.

Another thing, Pollock used the negative space super effectively. Something you should consider if you do another.
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Originally Posted By donblaximus⏩
As someone that went to a highly prestigious arts school, I will say when I entered the thread I immediately thought "man that looks like a Pollock" then realizing the first pic actually was and then being quite surprised that yours was very good. Then the let down.......your painting is small. Part of Pollock's angle IMO is the scale at which he made his paintings. If your work was 4' x 8 ', I would totally hang it in my home.

Great job overall. Go bigger.

Just read the other posts....I posted prior to reading them all. So we all agree size matters.

Another thing, Pollock used the negative space super effectively. Something you should consider if you do another.
I agree with this 100% brah. The scale of his paintings made the work backbreaking from what I’ve read. It’s a different universe from what I did. I’m on r/c but will rep later for the advice about negative space. I have a lot to learn.
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Hang it on the wall and tell your guests it's Pollock's.

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Lmao at jackson pollock and half the chit that is considered “art” nothing more than a international money laundering scam for gods people
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To call this “art” is just retarded. Looks like you just flung a bunch of paint randomly on a canvas. Congrats - a monkey could make “art” as well as you.
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Nice job OP.

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In general I'd say good composition but in the future I'd look to create more focal points for the eye to get a rest break as it moves in a circle around the page.

You want to think in circles with stuff like this, if you unfocus your eye you should naturally move around the painting in a circle or Z shape. Right now you've got a dead area in the middle so you'd want to pull the eye to the right then down if that makes sense.
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looks better than the pollock lol

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