Right on the money. And it is true of dance, literature, culture, architecture, even politics. If we did more considering, based on knowledge and inquiry, the further this world could get. Even Julia's character had to learn that.
“Do me a favour, do yourselves a favour, stop talking and LOOK”. My favourite scene of Mona Lisa Smile. A scene that says A LOT without scripted dialogue.
That was actually very rude of that student "Don't tell me we have to write a paper on this." I love that painting. You can stand up close to it, and it's so easy to get lost in it. But the good kind of lost, you feel safe in the whirl of colours, trying to see a shape or a meaning in it.
It WAS definitely rude of Susan to say that. The semester was in full swing by then, so surely she could figure out what Katherine would be asking them to do in regards to an assignment. When I took art history, it was pretty much a given that there would be a paper assigned after a visit to a museum. Pretty much how it works: lesson followed by an assignment ;) Susan was just being rude for the sake of being rude. I'm glad that the other students took it in and considered it, as Katherine said to do. She didn't demand that they like it...just think about it! One more example of how she wanted them to use their brains, develop their own opinions vs tell them what they "should" think!!
@@lizziebkennedy7505 Actually I can. Like billions of others on the planet, I have two arms & am cable of simply splattering paint on a canvas, I'm gonna take a wild guess here & suggest you're one of the fools that fell for the scam where a monkey did the same thing & the art world fell apart at how genius it was.
Eine wunderbare Szene. Ich mag die Bilder von Pollock sehr. Zuerst von den Studentinnen belächelt, sehen sie beim näheren Betrachten doch mehr als nur wirre Farbkleckse, -linien und -kurven. Man kann in Pollocks Gemälden so viel entdecken. Ganze Geschichten/Welten und Kreaturen tauchen hier auf. Wer braucht einen Fernseher oder das Smartphone, wenn er so ein Pollockgemälde vor sich hat ?
What I find telling is the fact that Maggie Gyllenhaal is in the foreground of the last shot. Her character is likely the only one to truly consider Pollock.
I like how many times she had to tell the most intelligent women in the country to shut up so they can learn something new instead of proving they are just smart
Genuine question. How does one consider abstract art? I've always been fascinated by it but I never learned how to consider it. Is it through finding a pattern or meaning in it? Or through trying to decipher the emotion that the painter instilled in it?
There is no pattern or one "correct" meaning. Pollocks art is just expression of emotions. He was inspired by physiological doodles made automatically, without thinking too much, just to express some emotions. Or native americans art. You just have to feel it. It was made by artist who lived during both wars and Great Crisis, not the best time to be alive. a lot od the artist from that era was depressed, addicted to alcohol, or killed them self. So often abstract expressionism art is quite dark and full of difficult feelings.
You have to spend time with it. Just stand/sit before the picture and let your thoughts wander off. It's easier if the picture has a title, then you can try to figure out why the artist gave the title. You have to let the picture call you (you'll notice in a museum which picture you are drawn to, that's the one calling you to tell you something). Not all will, everyone is different.
The same way you would listen to music basically. You don't just cognitively listen to the lyrics nor dojo you analyse it thinking "this is a 4/4 rhythm, not it's a forth now it's a seventh". You let it evoke something in you, a feeling, a connection, a meaning, pictures of the unconscious.
Really art like this is a joke. If some random no name made it no one would care. So please art community. Stop acting like you’re better than the world cause you can look at slop and call it amazing.
This scene always cracked me up. They're standing there supposedly in reverence and awe of a hot mess on a canvas. This "art" style is awful- it's almost a celebration of having no standards whatsoever. If you're into that and you think it's beautiful, thats fine. But if I can create a similar painting with one hand, in the dark, flailing around spastically while flinging gobs of paint in the general direction of a canvas, please don't try and sell this to me as real art.
what I mean is, for you maybe it just is splatters of paint. But for someone else it might be an ocean, a dream, a nightmare, an inspiration to a new idea.
Philip Iamawesome I thought it was pretty clear that this was my opinion; and that's why I said "If you're into that and you think it's beautiful, thats fine."
You're incredibly disrespectful and your comment was unnecessary. All I can say to that is if you feel you could've done the same job that Jackson Pollock has done then you would have. But you didn't.
