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en try first of all the lord of the rings trilogy of films already set up tight pacing with no time for lengthy wandering through the wilderness jackson s masterful film adaptation edited and condensed the material very efficiently there s no planned conspiracy amongst the hobbits to follow frodo on whatever mysterious journey he is on no elaborate charade of him moving to a new town frodo and sam bug out from the shire have a meet cute with merry and pippen in farmer maggot s fields and 3 minutes later they are hiding from black riders and running for their lives to the buckland ferry that eliminates at least three of the chapters in the space of a few minutes of screen time some of the material was already used as well bombadil s dramatic introduction rescuing the hobbits from old man willow was reassigned to treebeard in the two towers film can t use that scene now unless we are prepared to believe there are two separate locations where man eating trees that can be subdued by poetry are found speaking of poetry that is exactly why a smarmy apparatchik like colbert is exactly the wrong person to tackle these strange interludes he s consistently demonstrated he has one mode braying jackass colbert attempting to channel tolkien is like trying to play the moonlight sonata with an air horn the material would be challenging enough even for talented filmmakers to get right for example it will take a deft touch to avoid making prancing singing folkietom bombadil into an embarrassment i saw someone on the internet conjecturing beyond just writing the script maybe colbert intends to play bombadil himself that would be an extinction level event of cringe i recognized peter jackson s promise very early i was thrilled the director of dead alive heavenly creatures bad taste and the frighteners was making the lord of the rings as 3 movies i eagerly followed its development on theonering net back in the day peter jackson s lord of the rings films are triumphs even though i believe by the return of the king signs of missteps and bloat were beginning to show now after the horrible films king kong the lovely bones and 3 wretched hobbit movies i didn t even bother to watch the 3 rd one i no longer believe in the genius of jackson whatever talent jackson had was lost when he was pulled into the globalist big money meat grinder long ago now ideology has forced jackson into being an ingredient in some half baked colbert postmodern sausage they re thinking too small why not expand colbert s proposed script into its own new trilogy as well 3 comments video a real painter creates worlds not pictures may 29 2026 richard bledsoe art art history art news artists commentary paintings video visual art american culture art art history art news artist statement artists contemporary art painting remodernism richard bledsoe video making a painting becomes more than just a matter of how to represent something it symbolizes the artist s engagement with life we want so much to make an image that says this is who i am and this is what i saw when we do it right everyone who sees it will find that image inside themselves as well it becomes a moment we share and which can be visited over and over with new understandings always unfolding this is the power of art ultimately a painter doesn t replicate the real world but creates a world in the painting that exists nowhere else there are no limits for a painter every decision in the work can be freely made to best suit the desired result leave a comment 181 million for a drop cloth pollock price tags and power may 26 2026 richard bledsoe art art history art news article artists commentary paintings visual art american culture art art history art news artists cia contemporary art history jackson pollock modern art painting richard bledsoe travel writing one of the few times art gets any kind of public awareness these days is when some questionable masterpiece sells for an exorbitant amount it s happened again jack the dripper made another big score on may 18 2026 someone paid around 181 million for jackson pollock s number 7a 1948 jackson pollock number 7a 1948 oil and enamel paint on unprimed canvas 35 x 131 5 that s right the artist who probably inspired more my 4 year old could have done that comments than anyone else now is the creator of supposedly one of the most valuable artworks ever made the painting looks remarkably like the vintage formica table my grandparents had while i was growing up designers of the era no doubt stole pollock s trendy anyone could do this mark marking to create fashionable furnishings i ve studied pollock january 28 1912 august 11 1956 from his arizona youth to his final moments thrown to his death in a drunken convertible car crash seventy years ago what people don t realize is how small a portion of pollock s work the drip paintings were people also do not know that pollock himself found this signature style a dead end ultimately a failed experiment he spent his final years reintroducing figurative elements into his works although he was apparently drinking too much to work consistently the jackson pollock drip paintings for good and ill arguably the definitive examples of modern art for the masses these days were mostly created between 1947 and 1950 his sale prices in his lifetime seem to never have gotten out of the low thousands pollock had to rely on a few wealthy patrons and support from marxist critic clement greenberg to remain afloat it s not surprising as abstract art fails to fulfill one of art s vital purposes communication so why did this alienating art become the symbol of midcentury culture and move the capital of the art world from paris to new york city the fix was in the rise of abstract art was at least in part a cia psy op it s now known intelligence agencies arranged a clandestine campaign to get public institutional patronage for the art they favored covert support was funneled to the artists through indirect means through what was referred to as the long leash the cia influenced elements like the congress for cultural freedom and the intellectual journal encounter run by irving kristol father of the feckless turncoat bill kristol looks like that family has been assets for a long time with assistance from sympathetic facilitators like nelson rockefeller the intelligence community promoted a particular type of american modern art internationally and rewarded its practitioners the operation was nominally about boosting american prestige in world culture but considering the deconstructive globalist agenda the cia has pursued for decades it would make more sense that abstract art was promoted to steal the power of real art away from the populace now in 2026 publicly no one knows who bought the pollock another confirmation that shadowy forces are still exploiting misdirecting and poisoning our culture the art market is an opaque viper s nest of money laundering and social engineering pollock s drip paintings are not masterpieces they are historical curiosities relics of discredited philosophies and the residue of a strange propaganda campaign the current corrupt art world needs to fall if we are to advance as a civilization they ve made themselves culturally irrelevant so they can rule of their own little wastelands but we the people still need the timeless human experience of art an effective way to begin the ending of the current art world model is rejecting their pet examples of the emperor s new clothes as inadequate efforts that do not rise to the level of real art poor jackson pollock is a good place to start someone just wasted 181 million on a glorified drop cloth leave a comment monet or phony how one x post exposed cultural bias blind spots may 19 2026 may 19 2026 richard bledsoe art art history art news article artists commentary paintings video visual art ai art art history art news artificial intelligence artists claude monet clement greenberg culture jackson pollock painting robert florczak social media technology twitter x a self confessed bot account on x the social media website formerly known as twitter recently shared a post that was partly a prank partly a revealing experiment on art related attitudes perceptions and reality in the digital age not bad for less than 280 characters the shl0ms account shared this image and statement at this point it s been viewed almost 7 million times i just generated an image in the style of a monet painting using ai please describe in as much detail as possible what makes this inferior to a real monet painting i just generated an image in the style of a monet painting using ai please describe in as much detail as possible what makes this inferior to a real monet painting pic twitter com vdjovkoqlz 𒐪 shl0ms may 12 2026 the responses from ai slop sensitive x art critics were harsh i m disappointed i have to even point it out there is no cohesion to the depth and color choices the reflection of the tree bleeds into the lilypads with no regard for spatial depth or contrast the background lilypad algae amalgam is egregiously vague like most ai art the choice of color in places e g the purple around the lily pads sticks out to me as decidedly worse than most monet i get a sense that the artist failed to connect their eyes to the brush palette almost as if depth contrast and cohesion are the most obvious there s also no clear focal point no hand no decision no risk every stroke in a real monet was a commitment by a specific 80 year old man with failing eyesight standing in a garden the image has no author in that sense the decisions are statistical averages of millions of images the fact that is looks like shit and is shit slop doesn t look anywhere near like a monet looks exactly like somebody trying to replicate the style and achieving like 20 of it not as vibrant as monet s typical choice of colors looks dull many of these posts are gone now seen only in quoted replies because the painting shown was a real monet painting a water lilies of 1915 housed in a museum in munich germany the pompous posters who were hoodwinked deleted the evidence of their gullibility shl0ms had the last laugh selling inferior image to ai art collector jediwolf for 42 500 thank you to everyone who provided their critique and analysis i have minted the inferior image on the ethereum blockchain and will now auction it to the highest bidder https t co m6973cvgal https t co d3ubedwrtb pic twitter com jdf3mjaodw 𒐪 shl0ms may 14 2026 petapixel had this to say about the incident people are pointing out that results of this silly experiment are in line with what studies have shown about how people perceive art differently in light of how it was produced the famous 2004 kruger study into something called the effort heuristic found that people liked and valued artworks more if they believe they took more time and effort to create there is also a natural human bias against ai a 2024 study published in nature found that while people generally prefer ai generated artworks over human made ones when they didn t know they were ai generated they preferred ai art less after finding out that ai was behind it participants were unable to consistently distinguish between human and ai created images write researchers simone grassini and mika koivisto in the article titled understanding how personality traits experiences and attitudes shape negative bias toward ai generated artworks furthermore despite generally preferring the ai generated artworks over human made ones the participants displayed a negative bias against ai generated artworks when subjective perception of source attribution was considered thus rating as less preferable the artworks perceived more as ai generated independently on their true source this whole sorry episode made me ponder some perceptions i ve held for a long time first of all it reinforced how so many of the few who do engage with art have bought into the appeal to authority fallacy because there are no quality controls in the culture industries we are supposed to accept the received knowledge of what is effective art artist robert florczak once described a reverse version of the ai monet experiment in a prager university video why is modern art so bad he presented students a close up image of his paint stained apron as a jackson pollock painting and let them praise its amazing accomplishments because it had the world famous brand name of pollock attached to it they assumed it had to be good on may 18 2026 a jackson pollock painting sold for 181 million this however is an apron with this supposedly mock monet people assumed as ai it had to be bad and started from there another aspect the shl0ms stunt reminded me of was that as a great lover of art in this day and age i have the curse and blessing of being surrounded by reproductions it is impossible to understand the truth of a work of art unless you are in the presence of the actual piece reproductions in books or on screens are not accurate as they manipulate the scale and colors you can t get the correct sense of it i wonder how much of the art i ve enjoyed second hand would hit differently in person all those x commenters should have been wary critiquing a postage stamp sized luminous image on the screen of their phones there is no way to understand the true nature of the work that way the third perception is the continued dominance of the postmodern folly of art babble the modernist era started the absurd practice of verbose descriptions of arbitrary observations as the criteria for analyzing art marxist critics like clement greenberg used his inflated essays to bully the art world into submission last midcentury other bs spinners came along and took his crown but the misguided trend continued now it is all about leftist politics given current art world discourse i m surprised the monet painting didn t inspire talk of ai causing environmental crises cis gendered patriarchy cultural appropriation and the colonial abuses of nineteenth century france that probably would have been the user responses on bluesky amongst those more in sync with progressive dogma it s easy to criticize and slam most of the art being made now because much of it is not really art at all we need to move past a century s worth of elitist bait and switch and start feeding humanity s instinctual hunger for art again in art i look for beauty and significance but how those effects take place defies descriptions ultimately it s impossible to adequately articulate what makes art art and especially what makes art great try it some time not even robert florczak can do it the box he tries to put quality art in is far too small disregarding the complexity of human expression in art if we could say it we wouldn t need to experience it it s a spiritual connection which can not be reduced to mere language 4 comments art world antics virtual signaling at the venice biennale may 13 2026 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