ARTWORK BY AMBRE  (AM-BER)

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The priciest painting ever sold went for $140 million dollars in 2006 to a Mexican financier. Reportedly, the buyer paid less for his 2 story apartment at $54mill than he did for the painting. Despite how easy Jackon Pollock's dripping paint technique may look, my speculations on how it could be priced so high could be for one or all of the following reasons.

1-He was the innovator who made the style of dripping or flinging paint onto a canvas famous. Often referred to as a fractal or a pretty mess, the drip painting style simultaneously creates a geometric pattern which continues to marvel mathematicians & scientists.

2-Despite his simplistic technique, Pollack was a talented & trained artist who studied under Thomas Hart Benton who was called "the quintessential "regionalist" artist of the 1930s."

3-Early on, Pollock imitated Mexican style murals & collaborated with the exiled Mexican artist, Siquerios. Which in my humble opinion, could have very well been of interest to the Mexican buyer of his artwork.

Personally, I'd like to hope that the fact that he died an alcoholic, struggling to make ends meet before his most famous paintings were ever sold (much like many late great artists), were not contributing factors to why Pollack's artwork became the most expensive painting ever sold.

Back to the drawing board! ;-)
Ambre of www.ArtworkbyAmbre.com

Credits:

1-Jackson Pollock (by L. Proyect)
www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/pollock.htm

2-A Pollack is sold, possibly for a record price by Carol Vogel http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/arts/design/02drip.html

3-Jackson Pollack by Thomas Chacko http://understandingpaintings.wordpress.com/2010/07/19/no-5-1948-jackson-pollock-worlds-most-expensive-painting/