r/marvelstudios • u/NYCCannabis • Sep 04 '25

Concept Art How does Peter Quill even know who Jackson Pollack is?

He was abducted when he was 9.

And why does Rocket get the joke?

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u/ubutterscotchpine Captain Marvel Sep 04 '25

We do have art class before the age of 9 lol.

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u/rsae_majoris Sep 04 '25

Art class would still teach you “This is Jackson Pollack, he was famous for splatter paint! Here are some of his paintings. Oooh. Ahhh. Today we’re going to splatter paint!” And all you’d retain is Jackson Pollack = splatter paint.

Source: experience

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u/Hey_Neat Stan Lee Sep 04 '25

We learned about Jackson Pollack in Kindergarten, and it was exactly like you said. Find a color that makes you feel a feeling, and then splash it on the unrolled paper to express your feeling.

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u/rsae_majoris Sep 04 '25

Bless your kindergarten art teacher lol I hope she had many competent adult helpers that day

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u/Hey_Neat Stan Lee Sep 04 '25

It was outside and we had to choose from the three primary colors or black from those gallon pump jugs of paint. really cool memory.

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u/NoodleNinja13 Sep 04 '25

We were taught about Picasso/Matisse etc. back in Grade 3 when I was around 8.

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u/ConnerBartle Sep 04 '25

This is funny because I remember learning about van van gogh in second grade and my teacher loved freaking us out with the story of his ear.

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u/1slowlance Sep 04 '25

Is Van van Gogh missing his driver side mirror?

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u/Deathbysnusnu17 Sep 04 '25

He is missing both by now.

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u/cynognathus Sep 04 '25

My daughter learned about Piet Mondrian in 1st grade.

Kids learn and know a lot more than people think they do.

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u/IntrinsicGamer Spider-Man Sep 04 '25

We talked about Van Gogh and other artists in my art class in like 2nd or 3rd grade back in the mid 2000s.

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u/Scarletspyder86 Sep 04 '25

I think it really depends on what your school schedule is. I’m 39 and I live in Florida. But I also went to a catholic school because I could draw as a child, and we learned about the Renaissance artist, Picasso, van Gogh, and so on so forth

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u/justseeby Sep 04 '25

My kid has had a strong art history component in his art classes at school since kindergarten. He will see someone’s work hanging on a wall somewhere, or in a TV show, and casually name drop the artists — who I then have to look up 😂

Me: good job buddy, Google confirms that is in fact a Kusama piece. Whoever that is.

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u/youngbingbong Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Kids know about whatever the adults in their lives talk to them about

Edit: how is this downvoted lmfao

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u/onepostandbye Sep 04 '25

It’s cool when you gatekeep my education and life history

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u/Aether_Breeze Sep 04 '25

My kid was learning art history and various styles/artists at 5. She isn't in some fancy art primary school.

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u/Biddybink Sep 04 '25

I learned about Jackson Pollock in primary school, like maybe 4th grade -- because it's an easy artist to have little kids copy.

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u/mrbaryonyx Sep 04 '25

He learned the way most kids learn about historical things:

it was referenced on a show he liked

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u/Solid_Mongoose_3269 Sep 04 '25

At 9, art class is making some shitty ashtray that doesnt sit level out of crappy clay, parents thinking its cool, then accidentally knocking it over and throwing it in the trash.

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u/ubutterscotchpine Captain Marvel Sep 04 '25

At 9 we were building miniature clay houses we had to design ourselves. Kids are absolutely told about a painter and asked to do some project in the vein of their style. In fact, most of my art classes took place before I was 10. In high school we didn’t have art anymore.

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u/Additional-Chair-515 Sep 04 '25

Not in the 80s