Monday, January 22, 2007

Jackson Pollock

There's a website, www.jacksonpollock.org, where you can create "Pollock-esque" paintings. You just drag your mouse around - quick movements make skinny lines, slower movements make big globs. You click the mouse button to change colors at random. It's pretty fun, but at the same time, I think it portrays Pollock's work as random and chaotic (the paint flow is very hard to control). Assuming one can trust Wikipedia and my distant art history class memories, his paintings were at least partially deliberate.

Am I being too critical of what is basically just a fun website? Or does the owner of such a significant domain name have a responsibility to educate people about Pollock rather than just turning his style into a simplistic game?

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