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A TRAGIC ICON OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956) TOOK INFLUENCES FROM PICASSO AND MEXICAN SURREALISM AND DEVELOPED HIS OWN WAY OF SEEING, INTERPRETING, AND EXPRESSING. THOUGH HIS NAME INEVITABLY CONJURES UP IMAGES OF THE DRIP PAINTINGS FOR WHICH HE IS MOST FAMOUS, THIS TECHNIQUE WAS ONLY DEVELOPED MIDWAY THROUGH HIS CAREER. THE PROGRESSION FROM HIS EARLIER WORK TO HIS FINAL "ACTION" PAINTINGS--A VERITABLE REVOLUTION OF PAINTING AS A CONCEPT--REVEALS THE GENIUS OF THIS TORTURED ARTIST WHOM MANY CALL THE GREATEST MODERN AMERICAN PAINTER.
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Leonhard Emmerling is the director of the Ludwigsburger Kunstverein (art association in Germany). Publications on Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
A TRAGIC ICON OF ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM, JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956) TOOK INFLUENCES FROM PICASSO AND MEXICAN SURREALISM AND DEVELOPED HIS OWN WAY OF SEEING, INTERPRETING, AND EXPRESSING. THOUGH HIS NAME INEVITABLY CONJURES UP IMAGES OF THE DRIP PAINTINGS FOR WHICH HE IS MOST FAMOUS, THIS TECHNIQUE WAS ONLY DEVELOPED MIDWAY THROUGH HIS CAREER. THE PROGRESSION FROM HIS EARLIER WORK TO HIS FINAL "ACTION" PAINTINGS--A VERITABLE REVOLUTION OF PAINTING AS A CONCEPT--REVEALS THE GENIUS OF THIS TORTURED ARTIST WHOM MANY CALL THE GREATEST MODERN AMERICAN PAINTER.
About the Author
Leonhard Emmerling is the director of the Ludwigsburger Kunstverein (art association in Germany). Publications on Jackson Pollock and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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"A man stands darkly silhouetted in front of a gray, clouded, empty surface leaning against the wall of a room (p.7)." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Peggy Guggenheim, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Totem Lesson, Abstract Expressionism, Los Angeles, Hans Namuth, Hans Hofmann, American Indian, Art of This Century, Autumn Rhythm, Betty Parsons, Stenographic Figure, Accabonac Creek, Long Island, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Solomon, There Were Seven, Black Paintings, Clement Greenberg, Max Ernst, Moby Dick, Naked Man New!
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"A man stands darkly silhouetted in front of a gray, clouded, empty surface leaning against the wall of a room (p.7)." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
drip paintings, sand paintings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Peggy Guggenheim, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Totem Lesson, Abstract Expressionism, Los Angeles, Hans Namuth, Hans Hofmann, American Indian, Art of This Century, Autumn Rhythm, Betty Parsons, Stenographic Figure, Accabonac Creek, Long Island, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Solomon, There Were Seven, Black Paintings, Clement Greenberg, Max Ernst, Moby Dick, Naked Man New!
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- Mark Rothko (Museum of Modern Art) by Peter Howard Selz on page 18, and Back Matter
- Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The New School (Little lions) by Wendy Green on page 8, and Back Matter
- Mark Rothko by Jeffrey Weiss on page 18, and Back Matter
- Max Ernst (Museum of Modern Art) by William S. Lieberman on page 35
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- Jackson Pollock: Veiling the Image by Donald Wigal in Back Matter
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