Showing posts with label Jackson Pollock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackson Pollock. Show all posts
Monday, March 7, 2016
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
8 of the 15 were manic-depressive*
"Blessed are the cracked for they let the light shine through."
Group portrait of American Abstract Expressionists in 1950, "The Irascibles." From left, rear: Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Hedda Sterne; (next row) Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst (w. bow tie), Jackson Pollock (in striped jacket), James Brooks, Clyfford Still (leaning on knee), Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin; (in foreground) Theodoros Stamos (on bench), Barnett Newman (on stool), Mark Rothko (with glasses).
* www.obad.ca
Friday, March 20, 2009
overanalysis
Top: The She-Wolf, 1943. Bottom: Jackson Pollock walking in field with wife Lee Krasner, Springs, New York, 1949.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
black and white
"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected."
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Frank [born 1924] travelled across post World War II America documenting his adopted country.
though he had been trained in a rigorous Swiss tradition that aspired to photographic perfectionism, Frank's free-wheeling odyssey echoed the spontaneity of Abstract Expressionist art and Beat poetry.Like Jackson Pollock [1912-1956], he stood in the middle of the picture; he was released from the conventions of traditional picture making.
Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] described Frank's qualities as "agility, mystery, genius and secret strangeness."
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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