Jackson Pollock
Art and celebrity book summary (2010)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 13 Jul 10
Art and celebrity book summary (2010) Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov (book cover image). En Plein Air, (detail) (1995). Courtesy: Vilma Gold Gallery. Book published by Pluto Press, London in 2003. Art and celebrity : Introduction Fine artists are imbricated in celebrity...
Jackson Pollock : Art & Celebrity excerpts (2003)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 08 Oct 09
Jackson Pollock : Art & Celebrity excerpts (2003) After World War II, New York replaced Paris as the Western world’s art capital and paintings by the American abstract expressionists received national and international acclaim. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) was the first of that generation...
Picasso, Dalí & Pollock:
Art & Celebrity excerpts (2003)
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Art Design Publicity magazine
ADP staff - 08 Oct 09
...Jackson Pollock from Art and Celebrity. Intro | Pablo Picasso | Salvador Dalí | Jackson Pollock
[Jackson] Pollock (2000) film review
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 19 Aug 09
...Jackson Pollock (1912-56) was the first of that generation to “break the ice”, that is, to achieve commercial success and to make a splash in the mass media. (Americans were looking for a native art star to rival Europe’s Pablo Picasso.) In August 1949, Jackson Pollock was profiled in a Life...
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009)
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Mona Lisa Smile (2003) film review (2009) A review by John A. Walker (2009), the author of Art & Artists on screen. Art historians as characters rarely appear in fictional feature films but in the American movie Mona Lisa Smile (Revolution Studios, red OM films and Columbia Pictures,...
Matthew Collings’ This is Modern Art (1999)
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...Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol— did nothing to reassure the sceptic. (Feminists no doubt asked: "Where are the mistresses of modern art?”) Later episodes proved more valuable as Collings made connections between modern masters and contemporary practitioners via themes such as art about nothing...
State of the art - Channel 4 - 1987 (1993)
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...Jackson Pollock, while Berger’s series excluded contemporary art practice. Furthermore, significant changes had taken place since 1972— the date Ways of seeing was transmitted— most notably, the advent of "the post-modern condition". State of the art was itself the consequence of developments in...
Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993)
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Robert Hughes - Shock of the new - 1980 (1993) The title of Robert Hughes’ major pundit series about modern art was rather misleading because it contained little that was either shocking or new. This was because by 1980 modern art had become very familiar, an accepted part of official culture....
Shaped Canvas (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock worked on exceptionally long horizontal rectangles, and Barnett Newman produced very narrow vertical paintings, but despite these examples there was comparatively little experimentation with shape of support before the 1960s. Different artists have been credited with the...
Shamanism (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 17 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock, for instance, was aware of native American Shamanic art and ritual. His 1943 canvas Guardians of the secret depicts two “Shamans” protecting a ritual painting made for healing purposes. More generally, it could be argued that the turn to abstraction in modern art was Shamanistic...
Random Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 16 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock’s drip painting technique. During the 1960s, chance procedures became more formalized. Science-orientated artists employed statistical techniques derived from probability and information theory, giving rise to such terms as ’“Aleatory Art” and ’“Stochastic Painting”. Artists using...
Quadriga (1992)
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...Jackson Pollock and Jean-Paul Riopelle. Quadriga’s first exhibition, held at the Zimmergalerie Franck, Frankfurt, in December 1952 was entitled “neo-expressionists”’ French writers dubbed them “New German Romantics”. See also Art Informel, Free Abstraction, Neo-Expressionism, Tachisme. References...
Process Art / Procedural Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings and, later on, Morris Louis’s stain paintings were records of the technical procedures employed to produce them, hence process became both the means and the subject of the works. Process Art, as a specific minor genre within avant garde art, emerged in the late...
Performance Art (1992)
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...Jackson Pollock’s behaviour in the studio was made public via photographs and films; Georges Mathieu painted canvases before live audiences according to a time schedule; Yves Klein used live naked models as paintbrushes to generate a series of canvases he called “anthropometrics”— these too were...
Jungian Aesthetics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 10 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock underwent analysis by a Jungian and produced drawings for his psychotherapist which were later published. The American examples demonstrate that not all art is a direct reflection of the unconscious; in many instances artists reflect upon contents and workings of the unconscious...
Figurative Art (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 06 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock— have permitted figurative elements to surface in their work. See also Bay Area Figuration, Critical Realism, Humanist Art, Neo-Expressionism, New Image Painting, Photo-Realism, School of London, Superhumanism, Verist Sculpture. References and further reading > Peter Selz. New...
Drip Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 04 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock. (In 1956 Time magazine dubbed him “Jack the dripper”.) Unstretched canvas was laid on the floor of his barn studio. Jackson Pollock then worked around it pouring and flinging skeins of liquid oil and household paints from cans with the aid of brushes and sticks. Some cans had...
Color-Field Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
...Jackson Pollock’s all-over drip paintings in which the canvas was treated as a continuous or extended plane, as a single unit so that figure and ground carried equal value. Color-Field painters replaced tonal contrasts and brushwork by solid areas of color or, in the case of the acrylic stain...
Artists’ Foundations (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 01 Jun 92
Artists’ Foundations (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Artists’ Foundations A number of wealthy modern artists, mindful of the struggles endured by many young and poor artists, have established foundations and charities in order to...
All-Over Painting (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 30 May 92
...Jackson Pollock and also the late works of Claude Monet. The scientist C. H. Waddington found a link between all-overness in art and in science: i.e. the everywhere-dense continuum of events concept that replaced the “billiard ball” atomic theory of matter. See also Color-Field Painting, Drip...
