According
to legend...
One day after wiping his
posterior, Jackson Pollack had an epiphany. He was staring at the smears on
his soiled bathroom tissue, and was about to flush it when suddenly he
realized...
"This is my art. I can
sell it. There are people pretentious and tacky enough to frame this shit, and
I can sell it."
Hence forth, every Pollack
painting had the same vulgar, random and chaotic hallmark of his
original
inspiration. Jackson Pollack, a
visionary, is now considered one of the most important American leaders in
modern art.
"Number 31"
1949,
oil on canvas, 76.8 X 56.1 cm.
As you can see, "Number 31" is
indeed a tired and derivative piece of "Number 2".