Space Opera - BC
- SPACE OPERA: Back Cover - A black ink and gray pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size vellum paper. It appears in the book, "Space Opera," by Jack Vance, published by Underwood-Miller in 1984.
This drawing combines realistic with un-realistic elements, and that leads me to say something about "modern art." I often make negative comments about modern art because I see it as a stage on which untalented frauds display their artwork side by side with the truly talented modern artists, and I am challenged to identify the one from the other.
Jackson Pollack, a so-called great "abstract expressionist" took very little time to paint masterpieces; he placed a large canvas on the floor, climbed a ladder, and dripped, splashed, and poured paint all over the canvas. Most of his masterpieces took longer to dry than to create. And yet, the rich, the highly educated, the powerful, admire his genius!
Are you kidding me?
"Reality," "reason," "sense," and "rationale," are not what modern art is about. Kandinsky created a painting that was hailed as a great achievement because it had "no recognizable objects". Too much of Modern Art comes to this: "What you see is what you see, there is nothing to think about".
Well, I do not appreciate artwork that gives me nothing to think about.
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