Pollock conceived One: Number 31 with no thought to the linear, which includes ideas that drive the art investment market. It is a clear expression of his right brain. Conservative iron workers in the Bible belt understand the right brain just as much the rest of us and yet they aren’t included or even accepted in the modern art community. They may not want to understand, but have they been given the chance?

With music and art programs being cut across the country especially with the recession forcing state and local governments to make hard choices, I fear that these under-engaged demographics will lose all chance to understand the intrinsic spirituality and interconnectedness of modern art.

That view strikes me as fatalistic. Maybe economic hardship and global terrorism can bring us together in an organic way and inspire a new generation of expressionist art.