Absolute Pollocks

[Peteaud]

I thought this was going to be a thread about fish.

I thought I would be able to tell you the story of how we caught the Pollock on a day excursion from Newlyn last summer

I am disappointed

I want to hear it now, come on, spill the beans..

 

[welsh dragon]

I remember Tom Keating. Yes he did to jail time for faking art. A very knowledgeable intelligent, and interesting man.

 

[welsh dragon]

Coincidentally, I had pollock for my dinner. I didn't catch it myself mind you.

 

[EltonFrog]

I bet @buggi could do a load of pollocks, cheap as chips.

 

[Profpointy]

Anyone remember the highly engaging Tom Keating who painted a load of sextons, did time (I think) and then made a TV series showing how he did them.

Yes that was excellent. He was a great presenter and had real talent in his own right. He greatly admired Samuel Palmer IIRC

 

[buggi]

There's something I don't get about "fake" paintings. If the fake is good enough to impress the viewer, conveying a real emotional response, then it's art in its own right.
Why is it any lesser because Fred Bloggs painted it, or any greater if Pollock or Picasso painted it?
Could it be the buyer isn't interested in art at all and it's really just about the money and conspicuous consumption?

Not forgetting that some famous artists had people working for them anyway, copying their paintings and they put their name to them

 

[buggi]

I remember Tom Keating. Yes he did to jail time for faking art. A very knowledgeable intelligent, and interesting man.

I think that was the guy that also made a lot of money after he did time selling his own stuff. My mate went to an exhibition and was chatting to his agent, and my mate said he knew artists that could paint better so what made this guys paintings so expensive, and the agent said, "well they haven't done time, have they?". I can't remember who my friend said the artist was but its bound to be this guy.

 

[buggi]

I bet @buggi could do a load of pollocks, cheap as chips.

Mate, all I want in life is a narrow boat, and if that's what gets it, I'll do it !!! If he can get a submarine surely it won't take that long for me to get a narrow boat?? ha ha

 

[buggi]

I bet @buggi could do a load of pollocks, cheap as chips.

how's this for a fake? if i did it in colour, maybe i could get away with it??

 

[Stephenite]

how's this for a fake? if i did it in colour, maybe i could get away with it??

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I thought that was the original - as they didn't have colour back then

 

[vernon]

I thought that was the original - as they didn't have colour back then

I taught a kid who genuinely thought that the world was monochrome until they invented colour film. She took some convincing that it was not so. She was also incapable of identifying vegetable having never been to the supermarket and had never eaten home cooked food. Everything was out of packets, tines and takeaways. She managed to get 2As and a B at A-level and went off to do law at some Russell League university.

 

[buggi]

I thought that was the original - as they didn't have colour back then

that's it then. narrowboat... i'm coming to getcha.

 

[buggi]

I taught a kid who genuinely thought that the world was monochrome until they invented colour film. She took some convincing that it was not so. She was also incapable of identifying vegetable having never been to the supermarket and had never eaten home cooked food every thing was out of packets, tines and takeaways. She managed to get 2As and a B at A-level and went off to do law at some Russell League university.

Bit off topic but I work with a girl who thought countries just floated on the sea. LOL...
Anyway, what were were talking about? O yea... How I'm gonna get my narrow boat
So ... Who wants a fake Mona Lisa?

 

[Profpointy]

Bit off topic but I work with a girl who thought countries just floated on the sea. LOL...
...

some crazy meteorologist called Wegener thought that in 1912 - he was ridiculed

 

[slowmotion]

Pollock are the most vile, slimy and smelly fish you could ever wish not to catch. I've been trying to catch bass in Cornwall for at least five decades. Bass are tasty but you tend to catch pollock by mistake. You gently take the hook from their mouths and put them back in the sea. I wouldn't even feed a pollock to a cat....and I don't like cats either.
I see that the fish has recently become highly desirable. Don't be fooled.
Now, Jackson is an entirely different matter. He's rather good and a lot of fun.