History's Greatest Artists: The Life and Legacy of Jackson Pollock
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0719HR8Y7 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 571 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Pollock looked at the painting. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. More than 50 years later, these questions may seem a bit quaint, but they continue to reverberate for anyone accustomed to the standard that fine art be anchored in representation rather than abstraction. There was complete silence. He completely forgot that Lee and I were there; he did not seem to hear the click of the camera shutterMy photography session lasted as long as he kept painting, perhaps half an hour. These same people no doubt wondered how his artwork could reasonably lay claim to being masterpieces with no apparent subject matter. In all that time, Pollock did not stop. Hans Namuth, who was photographing Pollock working on One: No. On a psychological level, it's even possible that readers wondered how a man who looked as macho and indeed, boorish, as Jackson Pollock could really be the greatest painter America had to offer. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dance like as he flung black, white, and rust colored paint onto the canvas. Pollock's forma