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How Meg could've spent her $140 million
$140 million can't buy you the California governorship, but it can buy a lot of other -- perhaps more satisfying -- things. Lance Williams of California Watch blogged about what Meg Whitman could've bought instead of lots of campaign ads*. Among the items on the list:
Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948," which sold for $140 million back in 2006, making it the most expensive painting in the world.
An F-22 Lockheed Martin Raptor jet fighter
My personal pick: The 3,000-acre Little Jennie Ranch in Jackson Wyo., including house, barns and gorgeous views of the Gros Ventre range (list price: $69.5 million) AND 1016 Madison Ave., a seven-story, 12,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side ($72 million).
The combined spending of the other 15 candidates on this November's ballot came to just over $52 million. They could've pooled all their money, pitched in $17 million extra and had a fabulous timeshare in Wyoming.
Williams also put together a luxurious grab bag that includes a gigantic yacht ($100 milliion), a bling-encrusted TV ($2.3 million) and a Bugatti Veyron ($1.7 million).
*By the way, here's what Whitman did get for $140 million.
November 8, 2010 (not 2012 but 2010) - $140 million? Meg Whitman? and you?
To day 2 years after (that day) where are you and where are "the others"? Where are the 140 million $ and what happened to the money?
Let me say this; how about going back in time to 1930th ?
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Jackson Pollock, maybe the most important art painter ever. Once you have seen his paintings you cannot forget.
The timing - from beginning of his life 1912 until to day 2012 he manage to become a representing icon of his time, for us to review the past.
What he saw and understood to what he reviled; we to day see the bits and glints of his time in the most beautiful way.
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Not the poverty he experienced in the beginning of living in New York, or the poor people he lived together with under the great depression in the 1930th; how he himself had to - more or the less - find his food and accept “unemployment pay” from the government and living in cold apartments together with his brothers.
We do not see this. We do not se the photo of a young man, very beautiful, a mother’s darling and a father’s proud ness.
We saw a man getting lower and lower down in his own life, fighting with his inner demons. We saw a man getting older and more and more crazy, while his wife had to coop everyday with his bad behaviour and mood, only to find moments of joy and happiness.
We saw finely a man going to peaces and dreaming of a life of love and understanding but without no consolation what so ever but his love to a young lady coming to an end in a fatal car accident.
He managed to reveal the beauty of life “even so” for us to day, that we might understand. Yes, as times go by we only remember the beautiful moments, usually.
A Genius of his time and his art. The ultimate art from Jackson Pollock, New York 1949 -- spring, winter.
When time and space find each other, led by a master - everything possible can happen. This was Jackson Pollock moment and to day we step back in admiration.
Jackson Pollock New York, spring -- winter – My Private collection
This is Jackson Pollock when he is best. To the best of my knowledge the year 1949 was his year.
His talent spread over various styles and techniques until he finely developed his true art. To hold so mush hidden love and admiration over life and beautiful environmental feelings must be any artists dream.
With Jackson Pollock it came true.
Living his life with the emotional burden from childhood, the culture change from Wild West to a different environment in New York especially during the 1930th with the crises and hardships until he finely was accepted as the artist he wanted to be.
I hope you will enjoy it.
Around the Museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUE9i-mHdPM
Close up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StVY9ljydxw
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Jackson Pollock was a genius. I will compare him to Professor Albert Einstein. Jackson Pollock also invented something nobody else had ever seen, thought of or done.
Like atoms and molecules, Jackson Pollock invented the idea of painting an impression. Not just an impression or expression but “the impression”.
Jackson Pollock own idea was not to paint something but to paint the motion or the inner feelings what ever was observed in real.
How could he do this? By letting his inner feelings, thoughts and ideas (dreams) come true in his art.
He was fighting all his life and the fight was about who he was. He did not know. Was he his mothers darling? His fathers proud son or a good brother or what?
Was he an artist, a failure, a drunker or a man who people (mostly women) admired and loved?
How could he achieve all this (a normal man`s dream) and at the same time stand up to all others (mostly men)?
By pursuing his art, he thought he should be inspired by all the other famous known painters and art critics? It shows on his paintings along the path, but only when he for a moment sank into family hood with Lee Krasner and moved to East Hampton and was taken care of by Peggy Guggenheim, he found his inner art.
The years 1948 – 1950 was his only chance (and became his last chance).
Meeting Ruth Kligman became his fate and when an artist (or a man) meets his soul fellow (as well as his inner spirit, art), for a man like Jackson Pollock it became fatal.
Conclusion;
To day we also face life on the edge and only we can determine our future our destiny. Will we have success or …?
It all depends on our will and determination. Do we believe in ourselves or have we lost faith? This is the question we all have to ask ourselves. The success depends on the burden we accept to carry.
ArtLincoln
