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  • cle2105, on 12/05/2008, -2/+105Good list. I want to see a Disney or Pixar one
  • jaxomlotus, on 12/05/2008, -17/+169I'd like to see an XKCD version.
  • clintm77, on 12/05/2008, -3/+320 Pollock version is so lifelike, it's as if the eyes follow you around the room.
    • mfpratte, on 12/05/2008, -41/+4that one is just retarded if that is mona lisa then I'm Leonardo da Vinci
    • Foxoq, on 12/05/2008, -1/+15Click on his name and entertain yourself for a while. (The preemptive smoking of a joint is advised.)
    • Pstmann, on 12/05/2008, -1/+6Pollock's painting is like a poorly dubbed movie............with subtitles.
    • Rainmaker90, on 12/05/2008, -2/+11Pollock's is definitely a Pollock.

      I hate Pollock...

      But there is no denying the Pollockness of the Pollock rendition.
    • iseth, on 12/05/2008, -2/+3It's one of those Magic Eye drawings!
    • junkneo, on 12/06/2008, -1/+1You bastard. You found my trick.
  • clintm77, on 12/05/2008, -7/+43And I want to see a C&H version too.
  • Tychee, on 12/05/2008, -15/+18Haha, the Simpson and South Park version rock! :)
  • shortricekid, on 12/05/2008, -4/+142Jackson Pollock..........was dropping acid.
    • CreateTheFuture, on 12/05/2008, -4/+59or was a genius conman.
      • greencandy, on 12/05/2008, -1/+27both.
      • dusty41, on 12/05/2008, -5/+9Pollock may have abused his share of substances and conned his share of people; but neither of those things detract from the genius of his work.
      • maspaz, on 12/05/2008, -6/+9Genius?

        No, that word is reserved for Velásquez, Magritte, Max Ernst, Miro, Robert Mata, Yves Tanguy, Ansel Adams. Not for Pollock and, though I like his stuff, not for Rothko either. I used to like Dali until I read his humbly titled memoirs "Diary of a Genius" and found out about the questionable origins of a lot of his works later in his career. Nonetheless, he is amusing.

        Having said that, artistic tastes are subjective. People whose opinion I respect say that Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg are geniuses. We agree to disagree. Unless somebody pulls a knife (at the art opening, right?) ... then it's on.

      • mooseontheloose, on 12/05/2008, -8/+4Magritte was a hack and you have no taste
      • Hockey13, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4maspaz says "Art is subjective, but I understand other points of view."

        mooseontheloose says "My artist is better than your artist."

        maspaz is more buried. Gotta love Digg...
      • JPOOPOO, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1people need to realize that art is all about your reaction to it. Who cares about what a painting did for some possibly pretentious art critic years ago, what matters is what it does for you. The best work of art I will ever see could literally be anything, it just depends on what I see in it. By creating this unnecessary exclusivity in art as to who has the right to make a work of art, you are only limiting yourself.
      • Goblin, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1@maspaz "I used to like Dali until I read his humbly titled memoirs "Diary of a Genius" and found out about the questionable origins of a lot of his works later in his career."

        Sounds like a confusion between ethics and aesthetics there.
    • starkly, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4Just like those spiders!
    • aptanalogy, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5He was a ***** genius:

      http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/phys_about/PHYSICS!/FR ...
    • NewIdea, on 12/05/2008, -2/+0you should have clicked on his name and gone to his website.
    • TheRedeemer, on 12/06/2008, -3/+2I'm so glad he's dead. I'm so serious.
    • cruzlee, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3Have you seen his work in real life? If not, go check it out at the MoMA, NY.
      It's actually impressive.
    • wamitch, on 12/06/2008, -0/+9Jackson Pollock..........was dropping paint.
  • VikingRune, on 12/05/2008, -5/+22I'd hit it.
  • d0nkeym0nkey, on 12/05/2008, -3/+17I want a futurama version for Matt Groening! Mona Lisa in space :p
  • Atertract, on 12/05/2008, -6/+31I really don't like Nickelodeon-style art.
    • superherogirl, on 12/05/2008, -1/+16i miss rocko's modern life style... along with the show. sigh....
      • ModeSeven, on 12/05/2008, -0/+9Yeah but why did Heffer have udders? Wasn't he a dude cow? what gives?
      • Typhoon2009, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Isn't a heifer a bull (aka 'dude cow') that's had its testicles chopped off? I haven't seen the show in ages but I remember Heffer being kinda... fruity. So that might be it.
      • noahgelman, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7Whats so confusing about a transvestite cow?
      • MrSticky, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8He's a steer...
      • coliolio, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Wikipedia says a heifer is "a young female cow before she has had her first calf"

        odd choice of names (although technically it is spelled differently -- Heffer)
      • insertAliasHere, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3Typhoon, you're thinking of a steer. Bulls still have nuts, steers don't, coliolio nailed the definition of a heifer, and a cow that's had a calf is just called a cow.
      • ishotthedoor, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Heffer didn't have udders, though he was milked by a milking machine in one episode. He kinda fell in love with it, so I don't think it milked his udders. Here's some pics of him. There are no udders:

        http://www.geocities.com/kirstz2000/heffer.jpg

        http://www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~cbailey/stu/s04/j ...
    • corrector, on 12/06/2008, -0/+0i hate those cartoons too
  • havek23, on 12/05/2008, -2/+61Is it wrong that I want to see a Mona Lisa hentai video now?
    • ConfusedCartman, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1I just googled "Mona Lisa hentai".

      Based the lack of replies, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.
    • Goblin, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1Two hits, one of them being this post :(
  • ligyron, on 12/05/2008, -6/+248"Random Manga artist"

    Yeah, they're all the same anyway
    • zmedin02, on 12/05/2008, -7/+2lol
    • LeviTheSmith, on 12/05/2008, -3/+24But my Naruto AMVs and crappy Manga drawings are very unique.
      • Robbothehood, on 12/05/2008, -14/+2Three times as unique as the average digger.
        C'mon, I never fully realized how appealing jumping off the bandwagon was until I was on it with you freaking diggtards. God damn Naruto AMVs though...Stuck between a rock and a ton of internet jerks.
      • Phalanxia, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12Woosh!
    • Vesci, on 12/05/2008, -0/+15Random Manga artist made me laugh, so true.
      • zmedin02, on 12/06/2008, -1/+2lol wtf... i put lol and get burried but if i wouldve wrote it out +14
        fukers go ahead cuz i feel a alot burries comming my way
      • asdffdas1234, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1@zmedin02

        Digg doesn't care how good or bad your comments are only how many friends you have digging you. This is why you should never have high expectations for highly doug comments nor low exceptions for lowly doug comments for that matter. You have to mine for good comments and ignore the diggs, sadly.
    • BooneFaustus, on 12/05/2008, -13/+8So Cowboy Beebop and Trigun look the same as Pokemon or Digimon? Right, and 6teen looks the same as Metalocalypse, I suppose.
      • Swarmie, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5I can't believe you just did that!
      • SpeedSteamBoat, on 12/05/2008, -2/+11Well, that's the difference between old and new style anime. Computers changed the way anime and manga are produced, and now it all looks the same.
      • asdffdas1234, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2@SpeedSteamBoat

        You do realize that those are all from roughly the same time period?

        Cowboy Beebop (1998), Trigun (1998), Pokemon (1997) and Digimon (1999)

      • drgmdp, on 12/06/2008, -4/+1lol @ animefa(n/g)
    • Spazkake, on 12/05/2008, -1/+2too true
  • zmedin02, on 12/05/2008, -6/+9pollock what are u doing *nod head in shame*
  • eraofk00l, on 12/05/2008, -7/+10Pollock had the best version... so Da Vinci like. I mean look at the use of brush strokes...
    • feachador, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7The ironic thing is that Da Vinci didn't use strokes, and Pollock didn't use brushes...
  • evenstarred, on 12/05/2008, -1/+78The Pollock rendition made me laugh.
    • SpaceDreamer, on 12/06/2008, -1/+2Yep, the Pollock painting is the last frame of the comic strip.
      One word came to my mind:
      FAIL
    • meesho, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I like it, it looks like an arial view of a dry environment, maybe somewhere west of the Rockies. There are rivers to the north (assuming N^) and dirt roads all around that reveal dry sand. But I am just a regional planner so that is probably why I see it like that.

      That is why it it is funny yet I realize it doesn't resemble Mona Lisa much, but with an open mind it doesn't approximate to a failure as Spacedreamer said.
  • senatorpjt, on 12/05/2008, -18/+41haha, Jackson Pollock. What a fraud.
    • SuburbianMike, on 12/05/2008, -18/+9ignorant: destitute of knowledge or education

      you: destitute of knowledge or education
      • Nboy514, on 12/05/2008, -3/+14The fact your criticizing someone subjective option doesn't speak worlds about your own education.
      • LemonChicken, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2That's not an opinion. It is a lie.
      • senatorpjt, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3I suppose you're right. It would take years of art school to delude me into believing that randomly spraying a bunch of paint on a canvas is anything more than ruining a perfectly good canvas.

        The first time anyone did it there was at least novelty, but that's all the guy did. I might not complain so much if the paintings cost what they were worth, because they would make interesting wallpaper.
    • maspaz, on 12/05/2008, -4/+7I've seen a lot of Pollocks up close.
      They're interesting but the thing with him was the cult of personality thing ("oh, I have a Pollock! He got smashed at lunch and pulled his ***** out when I bought it this piece! He's so eccentric!", brags the society *****). He was not the first to employ that style (he "borrowed" it) just like Warhol was not the first Pop Artist (a real conniving manipulator who happened also to be an artist).
    • MattDell, on 12/05/2008, -0/+7I just love how the Pollack is an actual Pollack painting unedited! Hahaha..
    • bwdd, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2More like FINANCIAL GENIUS,
  • kmb1794, on 12/05/2008, -5/+9I'm still not signing up for Aviary.
  • whoreable, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12Mona Lisa is my second favorite Brazilian pornstar. Olivia del Rio would be my first.
  • kyle212, on 12/05/2008, -0/+50Pollock could have improved the shadows abit
  • meejeeman, on 12/05/2008, -2/+121go to jackson pollacks page...

    http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

    Its quite cool..
    • painting, on 12/05/2008, -24/+14jackson pollock sucks and his art sucks.
      • MazdaEric, on 12/05/2008, -7/+10no way pollock ftw!
      • iizh, on 12/05/2008, -7/+7But but but... those art experts tell me his art is profound! Oh wait. Most people with degrees in art history are morons who couldn't handle a real major.
      • abrownb1, on 12/06/2008, -1/+8iizh, I really hate people like you that think art history majors just look at pictures all day. It's not just about looking at a pretty picture, it's highly analytical and requires a great deal of independent thought. I had a lot more work than many of my peers in college and spent a lot of time reading for class and researching for original papers. Granted, the intro level classes are just lecture about works of art but the upper level courses are more geared towards drawing your own conclusions like most other majors.

        I also think there are just as many morons in other majors. Art history majors get a bad wrap because it's hard to get into the museum field once you graduate. There is a lot of competition for a limited number of jobs and you pretty much have to work for free for a while before you'll even get a paying job which is crap anyway. Most art historians find that to be too much trouble or can't afford to work for free and end up doing something totally unrelated (like working at Starbucks :-P )
    • unfinite, on 12/06/2008, -0/+12It's not really HIS page. He's been dead for over 50 years.
    • Buttercupbaby, on 12/06/2008, -0/+4It was fun.
    • Mackofalltrades, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3Makes be want to hook up the wacom.
    • TheNyquilKid, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2Someone needs to make a version you have more control over.
    • cl2yp71c, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I wish I had the MX Air from Logitech....it'd look like I'm composing a symphony.
  • acephreak, on 12/05/2008, -1/+7Aviary flu.
  • DownkeyKowng, on 12/05/2008, -10/+3Aviary is terrible.
  • MarineDigg80, on 12/05/2008, -2/+6I would like to see a Marvel or DC or even Dark Horse version that would be cool.
  • Lloydinator, on 12/05/2008, -0/+36I would love to see her as a super saiyan.
  • elryanoo, on 12/05/2008, -6/+6I like how they had Jackson Pollock on there. Real artistic throwing paint all over a canvas...
  • ChonoonFiend, on 12/05/2008, -4/+7Strangely the anime one looks the best o.O
  • lemur, on 12/05/2008, -5/+6The manga one is kawaii desu ne!!!!!!!
    • Lucifugerising, on 12/05/2008, -5/+6I thought it was no-wan givsae *****!!!
      • lemur, on 12/05/2008, -2/+3The digs will prove that people care
      • Icetype, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5should really be "*****" in that joke. Past-tense.
    • SpeedSteamBoat, on 12/05/2008, -1/+4Hmm, I couldn't dig you because I wasn't sure you were kidding.
    • soundchaser, on 12/08/2008, -0/+1ee soo desu.
  • bendthedark, on 12/05/2008, -10/+2Was Jack Pollock stoned to the max when he painted that? I mean.. was he trying to see what Mona Lisa was like.. On the inside? All chaotic visually appealing?
    • inigomntoya, on 12/05/2008, -1/+2Exactly. I like to call it 'Mona Lisa Purge'
    • brycelb, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I don't think he was stoned but he was usually drunk off his ass.
  • emiltasha, on 12/05/2008, -9/+2What about the Jackson Pollock's ?
  • roxgod666, on 12/05/2008, -4/+19Why can't cartoonist draw like the old Bugs Bunny days? The new cartoon network/nickelodeon animations are horrible.
    • Lucifugerising, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5Cause now cartoons are run by corporate execs instead of actual animators who care.
      Damn I miss the days of Avery, Clamppet, and Blanc.
    • SpeedSteamBoat, on 12/05/2008, -0/+5Computers are efficient, but they make everything bland.
    • ChromaVita, on 12/05/2008, -0/+4Some shows have some pretty cool styles. Flapjack and Chowder for instance.
      • elambing, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1very true, i find the static patterns of chowders animation to be mesmerizing
    • drgmdp, on 12/06/2008, -1/+1samurai jack
  • mikeman10001, on 12/05/2008, -7/+18Am I the only one here who actually likes Jackson Pollock stuff?
    • painting, on 12/05/2008, -8/+21spraying random strokes and plashes of paint doesn't make you an artist. Me boiling an Egg, doesn't make me a chef.
      • peterjmag, on 12/05/2008, -3/+15You're right, but being the first person to do that--thereby pushing the boundaries of the definition of art in new directions--DOES make you an artist. You really have to think about how much of a statement he was making in the 1940s, even if we may not see his work as entirely innovative or unique today.
      • greencandy, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3He wasn't asking whether anyone liked Pollock, but rather his works. And given that the quality of art is entirely subjective, I don't see how the artist's technical flaws detract from the value you personally derive from the artwork. It doesn't matter what the artist intended to paint, or what his thought process was in creating the painting, what matters is the emotional reaction the viewer gets by applying his or her own experiences onto the art piece, especially in abstract art. Hence the many "Untitled"'s.

        Going to contradict myself here--the funny thing about Pollock's works is that it sort of does matter what his thought process was in creating the painting, or at the very least the painting process, because it's basically all laid out bare. It's an interesting concept of art, and yeah, anyone can do it, but did they?

        I can definitely appreciate the technically beautiful type of art; it's impressive to see the product of mad art skills from people like van Eyck or Bernini, and how they so skillfully capture beauty. But I can also appreciate how art has evolved to become more and more infused with abstract ideas and thoughts; instead of "lol the pope paid me to do it" we get art with more ambiguous meaning and art that provokes us to question what it is supposed to represent. It allows us to walk away with our own unique interpretations, and that's something I can appreciate as well.

        Why I find Pollock's work to be art is best represented by meesho's comment above:

        "I like it, it looks like an arial view of a dry environment, maybe somewhere west of the Rockies. There are rivers to the north (assuming N^) and dirt roads all around that reveal dry sand. But I am just a regional planner so that is probably why I see it like that.

        That is why it it is funny yet I realize it doesn't resemble Mona Lisa much, but with an open mind it doesn't approximate to a failure as Spacedreamer said."

        I think its wonderful that people are able to bring their own background to the experience of viewing art and see what they want or need to see.
    • geeksofdoom, on 12/05/2008, -3/+7I love Jackson Pollock work. It's not all splatter art, yaknow. Though, I love that too. If you ever have the chance, go sit in front of it at the MoMA for a few minutes. Its genius doesn't translate in a 400x400 72dpi jpegs. Check some of it out IRL.
    • jbarket, on 12/05/2008, -1/+6No, I quite like Pollock too.

      If you've ever had the privilege of seeing one of his pieces in person, the scale really throws you. They're massive.

      Capturing emotion or action in simplest terms is no easy feat. Not to mention if you've ever tried to sling paint like that, it is a ***** crapshoot, heh.
      • Pstmann, on 12/05/2008, -4/+4Sorry, if they didn't have the caption "Mona Lisa" under the Pollock "painting" then it could have been anything.
        I thought it looked like a play-doh panzer tank in mid explosion from after I lit the m-80 under it's tracks.


    • abrownb1, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3I really like it but I have an art historical background. Like most other Modernists and Post-Mosternists his work is really self-referential and hard to connect to unless you understand the philosophy behind it. Anyway, I think this clip will help others to understand what his work was about a little more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ
      • Foggles, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2I never really bought into what he did, but I tried to give him the benefit of doubt. After watching that video, I'm convinced he just splotched some paint however he felt like that day and ***** his way into making money.
      • abrownb1, on 12/06/2008, -0/+3Fair enough, at least you gave it the old college try.
      • Vorin, on 12/06/2008, -0/+1this had the potential to be one of the best rickroll comments, and you ruined it!
        on the other hand, props for giving a damn about pollock. i haven't seen any of his work personally, but i'd love to, even for the sake of seeing the historical evidence of art pushing past the boundaries that were once in place.
    • angelajl, on 12/06/2008, -1/+1Yes.
  • ScottyF311, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Why is South Park on fire in the background?
  • chadsmith729, on 12/05/2008, -11/+4I have crossed my eyes, backed away, came toward the screen, then backed away again. Am I missing a trick to see Pollock's version? I mean I'm not half bad at seeing the sailboats and all in some of those hidden picture things, but that one has me. I just don't see it.
  • RATNIK, on 12/05/2008, -16/+14Jackson Pollock FAIL...
  • bonk2k, on 12/05/2008, -0/+11Dugg for Roy Lichtenstein.
  • zombiecarlin, on 12/05/2008, -3/+2Poor old Aviary, I expected big things for them but since they have yet to be bought out at this point it looks unlikely that they will be. I guess Adobe must be working on a more advanced version of photoshop.com
  • Aequus, on 12/05/2008, -0/+12It's only a matter of time until we Rule 34 the Mona Lisa.
  • WMAchampMrSatan, on 12/05/2008, -2/+8dugg for the manga version
  • wiredmessiah, on 12/05/2008, -7/+2They forgot to add the Random Programmer version

    http://www.mixmonkey.net/images/monalisa.JPG
  • hotjava23, on 12/05/2008, -7/+4I want to say WTF with the Jackson Pollock painting but I started imagining Mona Lisa's figure in the painting. And so I just started seeing these outlines of her in the painting, and I started feeling the same way when I look at the original Mona Lisa in that I felt that the painting was looking back at me and not letting me go. Damn you Pollock!!
    • viet10, on 12/05/2008, -3/+2that's not gay at all..
    • Pstmann, on 12/05/2008, -1/+5Drop the pipe, have a couple of brownies and go to bed, you'll feel better in the morning.
  • HeavySausage, on 12/05/2008, -1/+43Here are a bunch more by a Japanese artist Naoto Hattori

    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/4.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/5.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/51.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/52.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/53.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/54.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/55.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/56.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/57.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/gallery/paintings/58.jpg
    http://www.wwwcomcom.com/store/original/virus/larg ...
  • frostedflakes, on 12/05/2008, -2/+3Here's a good one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Marc ...
    • Specla7k4y, on 12/06/2008, -0/+2Also, that Marcel Duchamp is the founder of Modern Art
  • JackDud, on 12/05/2008, -2/+16How about my favorite, Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q?
    http://www.marcelduchamp.net/L.H.O.O.Q.php

    "The title when pronounced in French, puns the frase "Elle a chaud au cul", translating colloquially in 'She has a hot ass'. "
    • mikepictor, on 12/05/2008, -0/+3Or she is hot in the ass.....which doesn't sounds quite as enticing.
  • Typhoon2009, on 12/05/2008, -0/+2Last one shoulda been some cel-shaded or rotoscope *****
  • BadWobot, on 12/05/2008, -0/+6Nickelodeon style = Butch Hartman style
  • Nowheredan, on 12/05/2008, -0/+8Why do all of them have eyebrows? The original doesn't have any.
  • miggyb, on 12/05/2008, -1/+11I can't believe they missed out on Botero. I seriously considered buying this print and hanging it somewhere.

    http://www.globalgallery.com/enlarge/005-13915/
  • daimposter, on 12/05/2008, -4/+24after a night of drinking, i once pissed on a wall. it looked like a Jackson Pollock
  • RBobby, on 12/05/2008, -3/+13Don't forget the Mona Lisa Mii:

    http://images.gamercreated.com/imgcache/t17-640-48 ...
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