Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Pollock painting is apt to resemble a child's contour map of the Battle of Gettysburg (see cut). Nevertheless, he is the darling of a highbrow cult which considers him "the most powerful painter in America" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947). So what was the cautious critic to write about Pollock's latest show in a Manhattan gallery last week? The New York Times's Sam Hunter covered it this...
...disintegration with a possibly liberating and cathartic effect and informed by a highly individual rhythm . . . At every point of concentration of these high-tension moments of bravura phrasing . . . there is a disappointing absence of resolution in an image or pictorial incident, for all their magical diffusion of power . . . Certainly Pollock has carried the irrational quality of picture making to one extremity . . . And the danger for imitators in such a directly physical expression of states of being rather than of thinking or knowing is obvious . . . What does emerge is the large scale of Pollock's operations...
...last week, crewmen began unloading draggers at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market on the East River. Through the quiet streets leading to the market, giant trailer-trucks rumbled up with even bigger loads. There were cod and pollock from Massachusetts, salmon from Canada, croakers and sea bass from Maryland, lobsters from Maine, shrimp from Florida, clams and oysters from Long Island. They were put into barrels and boxes or just piled in the bins of stalls along the waterfront...
Dudley Hall: Carl R. Marshall '50, Edgar F. Noble '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Shepard P. Pollock '49, Leo J. Fitzpatrick '50, Edward P. Morrissey...
Dudley Hall: Carl R. Marshall '50, Edgar F. Noble '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Shepard P. Pollock '49, Leo J. Fitzpatrick '50, Edward P. Morrissey...