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IT ISN'T WHAT THE SPLASHES ON THE CANVAS LOOK LIKE

1/27/2009

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I have three things to say about Jackson Pollack, the mad king of abstract expressionism and drip-meister supreme whose birthday it is today. And I didn’t say any of them.

An architecture professor of mine once said: “It isn’t what the splashes on the canvas look like. It’s how he splashed them.”

A book I read once said: "Before Jackson Pollack was a painter, he had a job for the New York City Parks department cleaning bird droppings off of statues."

Jackson Pollack himself said: "When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."

I have nothing to add.

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8/24/2023 07:50:47 pm

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