My Post-Modern, AB-X, Urban Degenerative, Intuitive Right Brain Doodle

Overlapping pen and ink 8' X 10"


Actually I consider this to be a lot more than just a doodle. It is a full-fledged drawing based on many preceding sketches and drawings done over the past several years. This showing of this work does not have much to do with a weblog on landscape paintings, but instead is inspired by a recent news story concerning the discovery of a small cache of paintings done by the late Jackson Pollock.

Yes, thirty two paintings were found in a bundle in a NYC loft where Jackson painted between the years 1946 and 1949. At this point the paintings seem to be real, and it would surprise me very much if they turned out to be fake, for Mr. Pollock has the unique distinction of being the only major artist who has never been successfully copied or forged.

Jackson is unique in another way, in that he could never draw all that well. Like all abstract artists there are some of his drawings about, but they are an unimpressive lot. Considering all of this, I don't think his accomplishments have been overated one bit. He put American art on the international map, and in such a way that was authenic and forthright.

The piece pictured here was done recently and is meant as a quick glimpse into the realm of abstracted art and its' relationship to good drawing.