> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock

> I really enjoy listening to people's anger ranting why its not really art, or why anyone could do that, etc. If art is intended to garner a reaction - Pollock accomplishes that in spades. That's like if a bunch of anti-vaxxers gathered to protest Norman Rockwell's "before the shot." Technically, it does says something about the art's ability to "garner a reaction." But that's a tautology. If there's a critical mass of ignoramuses who are doing the reacting, that doesn't reveal much of anything about the art.