Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sacrifice of reality to demands of equilibrium and now worked exploring the possibilities of combining forms, in "jesting grotesque." Never completely satisfied with tightness of silhouettes he sporadically tried his hand at the rough shaky line and nervous application of color. This departure similar to the ramblings of Jackson Pollock show up in some of his etchings done in 1953, which surrender more than usually to spontaneity in design. His oils continue to reflect the relaxation of right geometric form. There is a decreasing interest in orchestrating multiples of small details in favor of larger more comprehensive rhythms...
...Jackson Pollock, at 43 the bush-bearded heavyweight champion of abstract expressionism, shuffled into the ring at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, and flexed his muscles for the crowd with a retrospective show covering 15 years of his career. The exhibition stretched back to the time when Pollock was imitating imitations of Picasso, reached a climax with the year 1948, when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean...
...That was Pollock's one big contribution to the slosh-and-spatter school of postwar art, and friend and foe alike crowded the exhibition in tribute to the champ's prowess. They found a sort of proof of his claims to fame in the exhibition catalogue, which lists no less than 16 U.S. and three European museums that own Pollock canvases. But when it came down to explaining just what Pollock was up to, the critics retreated into a prose that rivaled his own gaudy drippings. Items...
...York Times regretted that "until psychology digs deeper into the workings of the creative act, the spectator can only respond, in one way or another, to the gruff, turgid, sporadically vital reelings and writhings of Pollock's inner-directed art." ¶ The New York Herald Tribune stated firmly that "whether or not you like Pollock's painting, or think the results no better than color decorations, one must admit the potency of his process." ¶ Art News explained that Pollock's work "sustains the abstract-size scale toward which his vision has probably always been directed...
...attendance that he does not regard this as serious." 2:30 P.M. Murray Snyder summoned the press for a terse announcement: "The President has had a mild coronary thrombosis. He has been taken to Fitzsimons Army Hospital." 2:35 P.M. President Eisenhower, supported by General Snyder and Colonel Byron Pollock, chief of Fitzsimons' cardiac section, left the Doud house, walked to his limousine, and was driven to the hospital. Mrs. Eisenhower remained at home...