Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courageous buy, a great buy," said Manhattan Art Collector Ben Heller. No question about it, the Australian National Gallery's $2,000,000 bid for a 1952 Jackson Pollock abstraction owned by Heller is an audacious, if not inflationary purchase. The painting, Blue Poles, is a typical Pollock skein of blue and black dribbles. Previously, the highest sum paid for an American painting was for another Pollock by the Museum of Modern Art. Its rumored price tag: a mere...
CERTAINLY there is nothing new about groundbreaking art being greeted with skepticism. The philistines met Gaugin's primitivism with exclamations of "Why, a child could do that!"; the Impressionists were laughed out of the Academie Francaise; Franz Kline's random slashings and Jackson Pollock's random drippings ran another gauntlet of disbelief before being established as art. And as the seventies' Goths buck before art ordered by telephone and manufactured in factories, before pictures of chalked-off earth sites and rocks wrapped in plastic, yet another avant garde rises to vindicate them. But it is an awfully shaky testimony they...
Marlborough now represents 66 living artists, a few of them giants-including Bacon, Henry Moore and Clyfford Still. The majority, however, are middle-of-the-road figures like Fernando Botero, Michael Steiner or Richard Diebenkorn. Marlborough also manages the estates of David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Ad Reinhardt...
...color field emphasizes the flatness which is a formal condition of painting, but does so while at the same time allowing itself to be interpreted as infinite depth in the same way as Pollock's canvases, and employing the most romantic and expressive of colors...
...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...