Pollocks - Humo(u)r Me

[neonlyte]

A Pollock painting, measuring 4ft x 8ft has been sold to a Mexican magnate for $140 million - a world record price for a painting.

Wild fish stocks, including Pollock, will be extinct in 50 years, scientists report.

Is there a moral issue with either of these news stories? Should we care, or did you never rate either Pollock.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The value of both fish and art depends on its rarity. It has been proven that Pollock cannot be counterfeited.

The fish will not miraculously regenerate themselves if they are all dead.

 

[Liar]

Pollock shoulda gotten the cash. But dude, 140 million of em?

 

[R. Richard]

The fish will not miraculously regenerate themselves if they are all dead.

Check your bible for the parable of the loaves and the fishes.

 

[neonlyte]

Pollock shoulda gotten the cash. But dude, 140 million of em?

The Krasner-Pollock Foundation, based in New York, helps a couple of thousand artists each year. Mostly with support grants to get them through a tough period, following illness, personal tragedy, the kind of support money can't buy. $140 million endowment would have bought a lota grants.

 

[rgraham666]

I'll have to write the art story into one of my Georges stories.

That's how Georges maintains the lifestyle to which he is accustomed. Buying and selling art. I even mentioned Pollock in one of my stories.

OK. Done tooting my own horn.

I'm more concerned about the fish than the art. When it comes to visual art my tastes go no higher than Alberto Vargas and Olivia de Berardinis.

And $140 million just shows that riches and brains aren't necessarily congruent.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The cod are gone and they're not coming back. The Grand Banks are dead. They used to say the cod were the "cornucopia of the sea", a protein source that would never ever run out. It took us like 50 years to scrape the ocean clean of them.

I don't care. I don't care about anything anymore. In 20 years I'll be dead, and your kids will be paying $100 million for a McFishWich made out of the last few drops of North Slope oil.

Soylent Green is made out of paintings!!! Soylent Green is made out of paintings!!!

 

[CharleyH]

A Pollock painting, measuring 4ft x 8ft has been sold to a Mexican magnate for $140 million - a world record price for a painting.

Wild fish stocks, including Pollock, will be extinct in 50 years, scientists report.

Is there a moral issue with either of these news stories? Should we care, or did you never rate either Pollock.

I am not partial to Pollock the painter or the poor man's lobster, but if I had $140 million in pocket change, I might be tempted to purchase the work of other rare artists if only to preserve a piece of history, which cannot always be trusted with the next generation - h-hm or this one.

As for using the millions in a more beneficial way? If I had $140 million in pocket change, you bet your ass I am donating another $200 million to fishies for tax breaks!

 

[neonlyte]

Pollock is much under-rated, it reminds you of something you're familiar with, but can't quite touch. Lose either and we'd be the poorer. The film was crap.

 

[Grushenka]

I still recall, I believe 20, perhaps 30 years ago, when a Van Gogh was sold to a Japanese corporation for an equally obscene amount of money; it was headline news at the time, now a commonality. I hate to see art as a business, but it is, and hardly different from 'major' sports and other entertainment arenas just as business minded (think on the obscene salaries some sports and movie stars are paid).

As for the fish correlary, the ancient Romans (B.C.) served fish to show off their wealth; the filthy rich had fish ponds in their homes. I'd say western civilization doesn't deserve its fish and will sorely miss 'em when they're gone. I believe the Fall of the Piscean Empire might have begun with the invention of fishsticks.

Grushenka