Word: drips
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...unnamed 1948 work, from his drip period...
...band's high-decibel efforts. As respite to ears and feet, a mentalist is brought out. He memorizes and repeats backward a long list of items thrown at him by the spectators. The answers reflect the evening's mood: lips, left breast, vasectomy, sandbox, postnasal drip. A new arrival, watching from a wallflower's position, gets a friendly approach: "Hi, aren't you talking to anybody? I'm Lois. You shouldn't be shy around here...
...exhibit suggests what contemporary abstract painting has learned from the Indian: a series of high pitched colors and color oppositions, for instance, which are now considered "American" and found in color field painting. Other debts are not visible: Pollock's drip paintings are derived in part not only from the technique of Navaho sand paintings but also from their assigning a role of spiritual expression to the process of painting itself...
...expressionism but been neglected during the sixties, including such figures as Joan Mitchell and Sam Francis. James Brooks, a close friend of Pollock's and the first to seize upon his innovations, has been subjecting his work to constant refinement in the years since his and Pollock's first drip-paintings in the late forties. His recent show earned him long-deserved critical acclaim for a style that continues the expressionist tradition at a high level of formal competence...
Director John Avildsen, who made Joe, continues to prove himself a master of the visual cliche, the low-slung symbol and the stereophonic anticlimax. He is abetted by Scenarist Steve Shagan, a sort of drip-dry Clifford Odets, who puts klieg lights around every metaphor. According to the credits, Shagan also functioned as the producer. Considering the results, that is a little like running off your unpublishable novel on your own vanity press...