Word: drips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a handful of his paintings hung in museums; today, there are more than 30, and their prices have escalated some 1,500% (a major drip painting by Pollock now brings upwards of $100,000). Matters have even reached the stage where, when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week opened an immense Pollock retrospective, some critics decided that it was high time to begin to debunk the "myth" of his achievement. Sniffed the New York Times's Hilton Kramer: "An interesting artist of, say, the third class. It is only the poverty of our own artistic...
...never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues through his famous "drip" paintings of the late 1940s and early 1950s, and concludes with his anguished return to figuration just before his death...
Much that looked like social protest turned into a protest against the canons of art. Jackson Pollock, once a disciple of Thomas Hart Benton, turned out drab American factory scenes and landscapes in his search for a new style, later went on to produce his famous drip paintings. Adolph Gottlieb, another abstract expressionist who won first prize at the 1963 Sao Paulo Bienal, had to be content in 1939 to win a commission for a mural in the Yerington, Nev., post office...
...push and pull," by which he tried to reintroduce the tensions once created by depth perspective into the picture plane, flattened by modern artists, became the byword of abstract expressionism, and he himself became the movement's prime mentor. In his Red Trickle of 1939, he pioneered the drip technique that his friend Jackson Pollock was to make his most famous format...
...Visual Studies program, and the English Department's writing courses are all symptoms of a rather beneficial disease the Faculty is succumbing to--creeping tolerance. Academic appreciation for the procedures as well as the products of art will continue as long as the Faculty realizes that while mechanics occasionally drip grease on the liberal arts limousine, they also make...