Jackson Pollock or birdshit? A quiz.

[Simkin]

Some of these images are the works of the legendary artist Jackson Pollock. He created them using his revolutionary dripping technique. The rest are birds' droppings on a sidewalk. Can you tell which is which?

Take this quiz to find out: Pollock or birds? (http://reverent.org/pollock_or_birds.html)

[redeyedvideo]

Excellent, welcome to BF. I'm not even going there but I know which ones I'm likely to be able to afford :t:

Jackson Dave

[nickderry]

hee hee, got 6 out of 6, that means I've either got an eye for art, or an eye for bird poo! There was once an exhibition of bird poo as art.

[Simkin]

I'm not even going there but I know which ones I'm likely to be able to afford :t:
It is such a pity that, while the paintings of Jackson Pollock worth millions, the equally good art of his fellow drippers is so undervalued.

There was once an exhibition of bird poo as art.
Where and when?

[redeyedvideo]

100% correct but I've yet to see a bird poo mural 8 feet long. Perhaps there's one at Trafalgar Square.


DJ

[Vectis Birder]

Birdshit all of it, including the Jackson Pollack pieces! ;) o:D

[rezMole]

Birdshit all of it, including the Jackson Pollack pieces! ;) o:D

Hmm - same could be said of Kitchen Window Rooks. Each to his own.

[Storm-Petrel]

lol i got the first one wrong but thats it...

[birderbf]

Haha I got 100%. Not the easiest though honestly!

[Storm-Petrel]

the first was the one i missed!

[Simkin]

100% correct
What criteria did you use to tell art from crap?

[redeyedvideo]

What criteria did you use to tell art from crap?

Lucky guess I suppose. It helps not knowing anything about art. Having said that I quite like J. P. (his name's Paul by the way), Ralph Steadman & Gerald Scarfe.

I got 5 out of 6 for this http://reverent.org/an_artist_or_an_ape.html & I got the Jackson Pollock right!


DJ

[Storm-Petrel]

artist or ape??? ummmm whats the difference?? if an ape uses paint and places it on a canvas, then the ape is an artist. and humans are apes!! ;)
subfamily hominae, to be exact ;)

[Storm-Petrel]

I got all but the first rite on the ape or artist one

[ody]

What criteria did you use to tell art from crap?

I got also 100%! Art has lines crap no!;)

[Tannin]

100% correct but I've yet to see a bird poo mural 8 feet long. Perhaps there's one at Trafalgar Square.

What if you get rid of all those feral pigeons and replace them with Emus? High-flying ones for preference, for extra splatter power.

[teamsaint]

100% woot woot

[tim.birdboy]

I got 100%, woohoo!

Haha, rather simple...

[bitterntwisted]

The art was easy - 100% all the way - but I clearly know nothing about literature - http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html is really difficult!

[Keith Dickinson]

The art was easy - 100% all the way - but I clearly know nothing about literature - http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html is really difficult!
Just done this one Graham and got 75%, pure guesswork though. I have no knowledge of Faulkner's work but I can recognise German translations

[Simkin]

I got also 100%! Art has lines crap no!;)
As G.K. Chesterton had noted - "Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."

[Jane Turner]

I was at the Yorkshire sculpture park last weekend. There they had a substantial exhibition of Andy Goldworthy's art. This included a series of large canvasses which had been placed in Sheep pasture and had a salt lick placed in the middle of them. The "art" was a series of white circles with sheep shit and footprints around them.

I shit you not.

[Simkin]

The art was easy - 100% all the way
You mean on all of the art quizzes from reverent entertainment, including True art or fake? (http://reverent.org/true_art_or_fake_art.html) and Famous or unknown artist? (http://reverent.org/great_art_or_not.html) , or just on those two which were earlier linked in this thread?

[Jane Turner]

I got what I thought was a commendable 83% on both of those!

[tizziec]

6 for 6 but then I studied pollack for a while. but aparently not long enough to spell his name right. I will not edit the spelling, just cause it made me laugh that I did that LOL

[bitterntwisted]

You mean on all of the art quizzes from reverent entertainment, including True art or fake? (http://reverent.org/true_art_or_fake_art.html) and Famous or unknown artist? (http://reverent.org/great_art_or_not.html) , or just on those two which were earlier linked in this thread?

I meant just the first two - hadn't seen these others - done them now and they were good - got just one wrong on each. Didn't spot the Matisse and I was sure (6) in the true or fake was a Vasarely.

[Simkin]

I suspect that many people here are exaggerating their scores.

[Jane Turner]

Well I'm not confident that I would score the same again if I did the quizz again!

[Simkin]

Well I'm not confident that I would score the same again if I did the quizz again!
But are you confident that you really scored as you reported few posts back?

[Jane Turner]

Absolutely!