[HN Gopher] Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
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Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
Author : memalign
Score : 476 points
Date : 2025-02-08 21:22 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (jacksonpollock.org)
| memalign wrote:
| The page looks blank so click/tap to fill it in...!
| codr7 wrote:
| Cool, but needs color.
| NAHWheatCracker wrote:
| Click and it changes colors.
| KTibow wrote:
| Checking the source, you could also use your keyboard (eg 0-9
| is a grayscale palette).
| cbarrick wrote:
| Fun thing!
|
| The double-click to clear is too sensitive for me. I keep
| accidentally clearing when I try to go fast.
| lupire wrote:
| Don't click.
| sertsa wrote:
| Clicking changes the color of the paint. Not clicking would
| be pretty monochromatic and not very Pollock-y
| alt227 wrote:
| Also press the keyboard for colours. b=blue, r=red etc...
| Zanni wrote:
| Fun, but more suggestive of Steadman (illustrator of Fear and
| Loathing in Las Vegas and other things) than Pollock:
| https://www.npr.org/2014/04/27/307285367/artist-ralph-steadm...
| pkdpic wrote:
| Agreed, super cool project. All it seems like it would need for
| a full pollock vibe would be a color palette selector. And
| maybe this audio track on loop and a transparent overlay of
| animated cigarette smoke. Great url.
|
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzppQU-lqA
| zrail wrote:
| Also maybe a random cigarette butt once in a while.
| serf wrote:
| I disagree.
|
| Pollock used a lot of connected ink splotches, Steadman's
| 'inkling' stuff is usually large white-space separated
| splotches, an effect that is impossible with this tool.
|
| also Steadman moved away from that eventually, whereas Pollock
| leaned into it until death.
|
| Moreover Pollocks' art _was_ the splotches, whereas it was
| usually an accoutrement for Steadman around a different --
| usually framed -- perspective.
| hifikuno wrote:
| Hah! I waited far too long for the page to load. It wasn't until
| I moved my mouse to another window that I realized.
| cjonas wrote:
| Same here! Figured it was the HN hug of death and left.
| tolerance wrote:
| I know it's early but it's funny to note the difference between
| the comments here so far and what the discussion was like in
| 2020:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269430
| randall wrote:
| wow. that's awesome. i don't understand why but i'm happy.
| milesrout wrote:
| [flagged]
| yieldcrv wrote:
| It looks like people are more appreciate of everyone's
| ability to express themselves adequately and garner influence
| to share
|
| very onbrand with how this debate has gone so far!
|
| I'm glad
| daneel_w wrote:
| Of topics like these my father, a lover of all things art and
| photography, would say: "It doesn't matter if it's bad, and
| it doesn't matter that anyone can do it; he was the one who
| did it first."
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| I don't agree with your dad. Whether something is good (a
| notoriously loaded question) and whether it's easy for
| anyone to do themselves matter a great deal. Being the
| first person to do something abhorrent would not be
| praiseworthy, nor would being the first to do something
| uninteresting. Pollock may well have been the first to do
| what he did, but it is still low effort slop that any three
| year old could trivially reproduce. Therefore he gets no
| points for being first, because he didn't do something
| worth doing to begin with.
| noirbot wrote:
| This feels unnecessarily harsh - I can understand
| thinking Pollock shouldn't be as decorated or recognized,
| but "not worth doing to begin with" seems to cast a
| judgement on him having created something that feels
| mean-sprited. It's not as if Pollock was causing harm to
| others by making his pieces. I have plenty of friends who
| work out their stresses and needs to create by making
| things that will never be in a museum or sell for money.
| They may not even qualify for your approval as "art".
| Many are equally non-representational - just a mix of
| colors that struck their mood that day on a canvas. That
| doesn't mean they're not worth doing for them or maybe
| for those who care about them and received a piece of
| their work. I find some of them beautiful for reasons I
| can't explain.
|
| The critique of if Pollock should be canonized as "a
| great artist" is and should be a different discussion. As
| far as I know, he wasn't out there trying to get his
| works in museums. Dismissing something he clearly cared
| about and had passion for as a complete waste of his life
| is insane to me. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread,
| he was decidedly capable of other works that were more
| representational, but decided that he wanted to express
| himself in this way. This wasn't some hack with no other
| skills who got lucky.
| dang wrote:
| Could you please follow the site guidelines when posting to
| HN? They include:
|
| " _Please don 't sneer_"
|
| and
|
| " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of other
| people's work. A good critical comment teaches us
| something._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| aqueueaqueue wrote:
| There is a question as to whether it used SWF back in the day.
| It is likely but also would Java Applets have still been an
| option then?
| rasso wrote:
| I remember. It was written in Flash
| jccalhoun wrote:
| archive.org's cache of the 2003 version tried to download a
| swf file. so it was flash
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
|
| _Jackson Pollock_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37876645 - Oct 2023 (2
| comments)
|
| _Jacksonpollock.org (2003)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24269430 - Aug 2020 (151
| comments)
| yapyap wrote:
| lol not gonna lie I thought it got the HN hug of death at first
| amelius wrote:
| Reminds me of the early days of Javascript when every other
| website had a gimmick like this one.
| cattown wrote:
| People seem confused about the UI. You don't need to click, just
| move. Most keys on the keyboard correspond to a color. Shift +
| those keys sets the background.
|
| I like it that there's no hint, it just rewards exploration and
| experimentation.
| cactusplant7374 wrote:
| Clicking changes the color too.
| macintux wrote:
| Launching it on an iPad was a mystery. I assumed it was
| suffering from the HN hug of death until I tried to swipe back.
| Wistar wrote:
| Me, too. Thought a script failed to fire on iPad/Safari.
| Deprogrammer9 wrote:
| it got old fast lol but for a few minutes I was into it.
| quanto wrote:
| What a wonderful demonstration of how a simple UI can create so
| much joy. Utility to Kolmogorov complexity ratio is quite high on
| this one.
| every wrote:
| I find it interesting that Pollock was a student of the American
| Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton[1]. No two artists could have been
| more unalike...
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)
| antgonzales wrote:
| Jackson Pollock's style evolved throughout his life. The
| Whitney had a show with his early works and it's nothing like
| his splatter painting style we all know[1].
|
| [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/nyregion/a-review-of-
| men-...
| marcus0x62 wrote:
| I wonder what the art dealers in Who The #$&% Is Jackson
| Pollack[0] would think of this?
|
| 0 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487092
| julianz wrote:
| It's cool, but that's definitely a Ralph Steadman background
| generator, much more than Pollock.
| mmoustafa wrote:
| Fun! Reminds me of spending a week in 2012 trying to find the
| perfect blackboard chalk effect
| http://mmoustafa.com/experiments/chalk/
|
| After many experiments, the most realistic was painting a thick
| line and then erasing tiny randomly sized rectangles out of it.
| buggy6257 wrote:
| I need this combined with Excalidraw somehow and I would be so
| happy. There's something so viscerally satisfying about
| chalkboards, even virtual. Thanks for this! You did a
| phenomenal job on the chalk effect.
| bleakenthusiasm wrote:
| It looks really good. Like, really good. I have one thing that
| throws me, though: if you keep drawing over the same section,
| you don't get more coverage. It always looks like the first
| pass. But I'm so surprised at how well this works to emulate
| chalk.
| KTibow wrote:
| It seems the only thing that changes how covered a section is
| the speed you go over it with.
| revorad wrote:
| This is so cool! It'd be even more fun if it had sound effects.
| dmd wrote:
| You're a monster.
| gilleain wrote:
| Hah I did something similar around the same time, using random
| white/gray/black pixels (apparently, I don't remember any
| details any more!)
|
| https://gilleain.blogspot.com/2008/11/chalky.html
| mmoustafa wrote:
| That looks awesome!
| timkpaine wrote:
| In case anyone wants to do one themselves (and learn Clojure), I
| think this was posted on HN previously:
| https://tombooth.co.uk/painting-in-clojure/
| msla wrote:
| Here's a topic I don't see people engaging with: I could in
| principle make the same kinds of completely abstract paintings
| Pollock did, but if I do it, it won't be art because I'm not in
| the art world. I have no access to galleries, I have no patrons,
| and I generally don't move in those circles, so I have no ability
| to be taken seriously for doing it.
| plufz wrote:
| Do you think simply copying a 70 year old idea would make you a
| world famous artist if you had more connections in art?
|
| (Not that abstract painting really describes what made Pollock
| famous, action painting is obviously it.)
| msla wrote:
| > Do you think simply copying a 70 year old idea would make
| you a world famous artist if you had more connections in art?
|
| No, I meant like Pollock in terms of being completely non-
| representational.
| ggm wrote:
| There are now suggestions he buried representational
| subjects in the field. Suggestions his bipolar made it
| happen and then get buried.
|
| I tend to think it's post hoc reasoning by bored art
| critics and Pareidolia.
| schneems wrote:
| I think part of what makes an artist stand out in a medium
| like this is that they are able to stand out in a medium
| like this.
|
| Going and seeing something like "the fountain" (Duchamp) is
| surely accompanied by many people remarking "I could have
| made that" and it could be true, but they didn't. And
| that's the difference.
|
| To some degree that accessibility makes some of these
| things even more interesting.
|
| I brought up a Dadaism piece on purpose. In fascism, one
| tool of the leaders was to declare some art pure and
| acceptable and some as "not art." Dadaism was a rebuke of
| the idea: that authority can or cannot tell us what art is
| and isn't.
|
| Dadaism is intentionally absurdist. And it's that quality
| that many would use to discredit it, is the very thing that
| makes it so powerful (to some).
|
| Not saying that pollock is playing with absurdism, but
| saying that sometimes the things that make something "not
| art" or "not interesting" to one person are the things that
| elevate it to another.
|
| Not sure if that's what you were asking, but that's a riff
| I was inspired to share.
| jonahx wrote:
| It would be still be art but no, you wouldn't be taken
| seriously.
|
| To some extent succeeding at art is by definition succeeding in
| those circles, whether through politics, a chance patron or
| gallery owner fixating on you, raw unignorable talent, etc. A
| related definition is succeeding by sheer popularity and fame,
| like a Banksy, though he's succeeded in both ways. I don't
| think this insight undermines the art world wholesale, though
| it definitely suggests (correctly) that luck plays role, that
| not all great artists succeed, and that not all successful
| artists are great. Most games in life are like this.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I want this but multitouch so badly.
| Sn0wCoder wrote:
| The Paper.js library is neat if you like this site (found it
| looking through the source). http://paperjs.org/
| CaramelGrudge wrote:
| I've played a lot with this years ago. Could have been between 10
| and 15 years back even! Didn't know it still existed. Thanks for
| sharing
| vasco wrote:
| My portrait https://imgur.com/a/SKrexZb
| femto wrote:
| On a tangent, the floor of Pollock's studio is an artwork in its
| own right:
|
| https://aaqeastend.com/contents/aaq-portfolio-jackson-polloc...
| dang wrote:
| Wow, that would make a great HN submission in its own right--
| though not anytime soon! one has to let the hivemind caches
| clear first.
| TheSpiceIsLife wrote:
| On the other hand, when brick and mortar stores of the same
| kind are located near each other they all sell more.
|
| And we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN
| front page.
| DyslexicAtheist wrote:
| say no more.
| dang wrote:
| > we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN
| front page
|
| Most often that would be a failure on our part. But it's
| good for the mods to fail sometimes.
| adamredwoods wrote:
| I absolutely love this and here's why: many people who criticize
| art as being "child's doodles" lack the experience and process of
| art. Education raises all boats. This is that type of simple
| education.
|
| So now, I hope every here tries to make their own Pollock art.
|
| https://www.moma.org/artists/4675-jackson-pollock
| ilbeeper wrote:
| Because Pollock would smash it with a masterpiece right out of
| his cellphone? This is cute but not a great device to reveal
| the truth to the uneducated
| adamredwoods wrote:
| Nope. To think to is create. I want more people to think.
| Trying to make a masterpiece with this is not the point.
| InsideOutSanta wrote:
| I think what he would do is better than what most others
| would.
|
| This reminds me of something that happened to me in the early
| 90s. I went to a local computer show (where local
| distributors would show new hardware) with a friend who's an
| artist. There was a booth with a color Mac, probably an LC or
| something like that, running Mac Paint. People were doodling
| on it, playing around with the spray can and the text tool,
| and it looked like random stuff thrown on a canvas. Not
| having a computer at home, my friend was curious, and queued
| to play with it.
|
| When my friend got a turn on the Mac, first time on a Mac
| using Mac Paint, he made a drawing that genuinely looked like
| a piece of art. If there had been a printer nearby, I could
| have printed it out and put it on my wall, and nobody would
| have thought that this was a somebody's first time using Mac
| Paint.
|
| Art is a genuine skill, and you will see the difference
| between an artist and a random person regardless of the
| canvas they use.
|
| I guess this also reminds me of the introduction of the
| Amiga, with Warhol using the paint can to fill in sections of
| a photo of Debbie Harry. Technically, this is something
| everybody can do, but Warhol knew which colors to pick, which
| sections to color, and which choices to make to create
| something that actually looks great.
| osehgol wrote:
| absolutely wonderful, thank you
| msuvakov wrote:
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| dang wrote:
| (I took out several dozen lines of whitespace from this post.
| Looks like the green graphic didn't come through.)
| msuvakov wrote:
| Thanks. It seems that some UTF-8 characters are not accepted
| as part of the comment. Anyone who wants to see the rabbit
| should check the page source :)
| emoprincejack wrote:
| why is this front page on HN
| Deprogrammer9 wrote:
| The CIA runs hacker news.
| dang wrote:
| Well that made me lol! (Edit: oh. now that i've seen
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987770 it's not so
| funny; too bad)
|
| FWIW the CIA does not run Hacker News. (that I know of)
| tptacek wrote:
| You believe what we want you to believe.
| bdangubic wrote:
| if you have to ask this question you are in a wrong place :)
| helsinki wrote:
| Make this a Vision Pro app, please.
| rexpop wrote:
| Fun fact! Jackson Pollock, along with other abstract
| expressionists, was a CIA propaganda asset!
|
| The CIA believed that abstract expressionism, with its unbound
| and individualistic style, could be associated with American
| freedoms, so they secretly funded the "Congress for Cultural
| Freedom", an anti-communist advocacy group that promoted American
| arts and culture, including abstract expressionism, through
| international art shows and publications.
|
| Art or writings that touched on US racism (Pollock was
| contemporaneous with numerous lynchings) and imperialism
| (Guatemala, Iran, Greece, Korea) were, of course, passed over.
|
| Ever since I learned this, I have lost all emotional appreciation
| for his works. While before they seemed free, now they seem
| cheap.
| Deprogrammer9 wrote:
| They killed him knowing his art would skyrocket in price. They
| still have his art on their walls to this day.
| rexpop wrote:
| This is a vague and baseless conspiracy theory.
| 0x1ceb00da wrote:
| It was a money laundering scheme.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36155204 - June 2023 (332
| comments)
|
| https://www.openculture.com/2023/10/how-the-cia-secretly-use...
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462602
| skrebbel wrote:
| > Ever since I learned this, I have lost all emotional
| appreciation for his works. While before they seemed free, now
| they seem cheap.
|
| I don't understand this. Because he got paid for it, the work
| is cheap? Do you think he would've made different works if the
| CIA hadn't funded his art shows? I struggle to imagine what a
| Pollock "about" racism would look like, and how the CIA would
| notice that it's about racism.
|
| I mean you do you, I don't mean to tell you you can't dislike
| someone's art. I just really don't get it :D
| alt227 wrote:
| It reeks of the same stench as cancel culture. Once some
| people have seen a connection to something they dont like,
| they just cant bring themselves to enjoy that thing anymore.
| I guess those sorts of people like to fixate on what they
| hate.
| bazoom42 wrote:
| CIA also promoted jazz music which was very effective in
| getting European intellectuals and artists to appreciate
| American culture more.
|
| But I don't see how that should make you appreciate jazz music
| itself any more or less.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| When I look at ludicrously priced 'conceptual art' and
| 'abstract expressionism' I see decadence, not freedom.
| Deprogrammer9 wrote:
| Pollock's art is not just random splashes but a sophisticated
| interaction of movement, gravity, and fluid dynamics, creating
| fractal-like structures. This fractal nature might contribute to
| why people find his work visually compelling--it resonates with
| patterns we see in nature.
| jfengel wrote:
| What are your thoughts if I don't find it compelling? Is that
| the end of it, or is there some reason for me to keep seeking
| emotional resonance in it?
| bigstrat2003 wrote:
| I mean, it's just random splashes. I don't think there's a
| reason to convince yourself that there is some compelling
| hidden meaning to it.
| mturmon wrote:
| https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/29103-try-to-be-one-of-
| thos...
| jfengel wrote:
| That is a really good point. I've put a lot of effort into
| understanding things that didn't appeal and some of them
| are now very meaningful to me. I thought literature was
| absurd and now I direct Shakespeare plays.
|
| So... I'll think on that.
| noirbot wrote:
| It's not any more random than where you happen to be standing
| in relation to the clouds at sunset. There's plenty of days
| that doesn't have any emotional resonance to me, but some
| days it does. I wouldn't dwell on it, and if you happen to
| see a piece in person some day, maybe it strikes you
| differently.
| jfengel wrote:
| I haven't spent much time with Pollock, but I've seen an
| awful lot of Rothkos. Very different style but similar
| levels of "that looks like it took no thought and has
| nothing to say".
|
| I'm content to say Rothko isn't for me, but I'll reserve
| judgment on Pollock until I can spend more time in those
| galleries.
| psytrancefan wrote:
| This app is as interesting as Pollocks's art. A few moments of
| "interesting" then you close the browser and move on.
| UberFly wrote:
| Pollock's "art" is generous. The guy splashed random paint
| around. Buyers would come in and point to the section that
| "spoke" to them. He'd cut out that section, sign it, and
| extract thousands from these idiots. Actually, good for him
| come to think of it.
| criddell wrote:
| Idiots, eh? I'm guessing most of those original buyers
| don't have a lot of regret for buying something that made
| them happy.
| umvi wrote:
| To me this reads like someone praising the exquisite quality of
| the invisible Egyptian cotton forming the emperor's clothes
| chefandy wrote:
| This is a fun toy. I have no problem naming toys after the
| serious people and things that inspired it. For all I know,
| that is exactly what the author of this toy intended to do. Toy
| isn't even a denigrating term -- play is critically important
| to many things, especially in visual art.
|
| What gets old is the hubris of the tech world thinking that an
| artist's intention and methods boil down to a superficial
| 'style'-- devoid of granular stroke-by-stroke intention,
| context, or meaning which you can apply to any arbitrary
| subject or setting to effectively create new works by that
| artist.
| amadeuspagel wrote:
| Beautiful. Minimal interface. The domain itself is the only
| necessary explanation.
| matthberg wrote:
| It's configurable too!
|
| Numbers set grey scale.
|
| Letters set colors (b=blue, r=red, y=yellow, etc).
|
| Mouse click sets random color.
|
| Spacebar or double-click resets canvas.
|
| I didn't discover this, comment stolen from previous discussion
| (thank you Cactus2018!):
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24284711
| SeanLuke wrote:
| Somehow something I typed changed the background color. But I
| don't know how.
| novosel wrote:
| ctrl+b
| alt227 wrote:
| Ctrl+b brings up the bookmark toolbar in Firebox.
| thesparks wrote:
| Can someone with ChatGPT Pro use Operator and ask it to move the
| mouse to create a beautiful painting and see what happens?
| krism wrote:
| Amazing!!!
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| Can someone help me? I can't get to the main page, but it draws
| what looks like a toddlers art work when I try and use it.
|
| Firefox on Linux.
| xeonax wrote:
| This reminded me of my Show HN
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41791443
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Based on Stamen Design's _Splatter_ https://stamen.com/splatter-
| now-re-available-for-download-15...
| https://github.com/stamen/splatter
| tomgp wrote:
| I remember when the Jacksonpollock.org first came online there
| was a bit of drama around the fact that Miltos Manetas had
| taken Stamen's original Flash file (well known within the flash
| community at the time but not so much outside) and re-hosted it
| without credit or permission. They sorted it out and Stamen
| were credited in the end but it opened my eyes to how much of
| contemporary art it's actually marketing. (With reference here
| to Manetas not Pollock)
| chris_wot wrote:
| Has anyone seen Blue Poles? It nearly brought down a government.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| "The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) purchased Blue Poles
| in 1973 for US$1.3 million."
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Poles
|
| There is one born every minute.
| wistlo wrote:
| Showed this to my 16 year old and she said, "oh, yeah, I've got
| that bookmarked."
|
| "You should also try Mondrian and Me."
|
| I did, and it's as you would expect:
|
| https://mondrianandme.com/
|
| More fun than panda dataframes, at least at this hour.
| samdung wrote:
| Since we are on Pollock ...
|
| https://daily.jstor.org/was-modern-art-really-a-cia-psy-op/
| kilroy123 wrote:
| How cool to see this. This last year, I helped the artist fix
| this and bring this back to life. Makes me smile to see it here.
| :)
|
| Here is the Artist's home page, btw:
|
| https://manetas.com/timeline.com/en/
| smrtkobylam wrote:
| Great! Is this website funded by CIA as well?
| qoez wrote:
| 2003? Canvas wasn't a thing until the 2010s
| jccalhoun wrote:
| I went on archive.org and it looks like the 2003 version used
| flash.
| fitsumbelay wrote:
| the main reason why I el-you-vee love this is that it's what my
| first sketches in processing ( minus the obligatory "random"
| color generation on every mouse click ( somehow those colors
| where never really random ) ) plus some algo for extra splotches
| around curves, it looks like. a very simple starting point
| elevated to a super cool thing.
| metalman wrote:
| someone, once, attached different paint brushes to the branches
| of a tree, that could touch a canvas placed below. The completely
| random, but compelling results, resemble nothing so much as a
| pollock one of the few mad artists that I admire there work. Also
| have lived with paintings done in his studio by an X's relative,
| who was attempting the same style, but in no way achiving what
| pollock himself did. I do have a few random unknown artist works,
| that come close, and have a partial back story on two, and they
| were also, mad! Mad but precious, and in this time there is
| little physical and financial room for people and the subculters
| they create to thrive, and so we are impoverished. The app is
| cute, but it trivialises what was a huge reach into the unknown.
| ascorbic wrote:
| It's a lot of fun building these kinds of things. I made this a
| few years ago and got obsessed with modelling bezier curves for
| individual bristles and tweaking the tiny details of blend modes
| https://react-artboard.netlify.app/
| viggity wrote:
| If splines/beziers are of any interest to you, I could not
| recommend these videos from Freya Holmer enough.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw
| BeFlatXIII wrote:
| This brings back fond memories of playing around in KidPix in
| elementary school.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| To think that someone actually made a lucrative career out of the
| analogue version of this. I suppose it was one step above hanging
| a blank canvas with a pretentious caption underneath.
| profunctor wrote:
| Have you seen them in real life? They are much more interesting
| in person.
| codingdave wrote:
| He did not make a lucrative career out of his painting. He was
| fairly poor... just famous. And not even that until the last
| few years of his life.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| It says at
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) :
|
| "By 1989 Bacon was the most expensive living artist after one
| of his triptychs sold at Sotheby's for over US$6 million."
|
| And:
|
| "He died of a heart attack on 28 April 1992, aged 82. He
| bequeathed his estate (then valued at PS11 million) to his
| heir and sole legatee John Edwards."
|
| Sounds quite lucrative to me.
| codingdave wrote:
| That would totally prove your point _if_ this post was
| about Francis Bacon. It isn 't.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Oops! ;0)
| gizajob wrote:
| "To me they look like bits of old lace" - Francis Bacon
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