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...John Cage.With the introductions complete, the exhibition delves further into the interplay between Pollock and Matter’s work downstairs.MAKING JACK THE DRIPPERPerhaps even more academically engaging than the issue of the authenticity of the paintings in question is the importance of Matter and his work in Pollock??s development, particularly with reference to the genesis of Pollock??s famed drip-painting technique.The chronology of their relationship is revealing. Pollock completed his first preliminary drip-paintings the same year Matter showed photos produced with ink and glycerin drip techniques. Pollock abandoned drip paintings following Matter?...
...method used to authenticate it.While art scholars argued over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock??s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched one on a blue paint can in Pollock??s studio.Years later, in 2002, a man named Alex Matter discovered a stack of 32 paintings in a Long Island storage facility...
...evidence that we want to bring to the table. It is important to engage with other scholars who may have never seen these works before.” According to Netzer, the paintings will be labeled as “problems for study.” The authenticity of Pollock??s paintings has more than scholarly significance. An undisputed painting by the famed American abstract expressionist, “No. 5, 1948,” recently sold for $140 million, making it the world’s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry...
...Holdin (Zooey Deschanel, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”) returns after many years to her suburban childhood home and estranged father, Don (Ed Harris, “A History of Violence”). A book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock??) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock musician (Will Ferrell), both of whom help Reese...
...felt that Kline hadn’t beaten Pollock, he had simply outshouted him. He had taken one appealing aspect of Pollock??s painting—its base materiality—and excessively amplified it. And I think this kind of one-upsmanship is especially dangerous when it comes to base materiality or any similar strategy specifically designed to provoke a strong visceral response from the viewer. The problem is not that these strategies don’t suceed, but rather that they suceed far too well. At a certain point I think the visceral-reaction-inducing qualities...