Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People's Pollock. Probably the best exponent of Italy's low-profile brand of Communism is Bologna's Mayor Renato Zangheri, a party "liberal," economist and intellectual who is regarded as something of a Marxist Medici even by nonCommunists. Since July, when he became the latest Red mayor of Bologna, Zangheri has insisted on keeping his University of Bologna professorship, on wearing his academic tweeds, and on making over much of the municipal government in his eclectic but thoughtful style. Among the 17th century frescoes in the Palazzo D'Accursio, he has hung a favorite Jackson...
Jungian Psychiatrist Dr. Joseph Henderson decided there was gold in his files in the form of 83 drawings and doodles made 30 years ago by one of his patients, the late painter Jackson Pollock...
...sold the lot to a San Francisco gallery, and last week Manhattan's Whitney Museum made an exhibition out of them. Since neurotic, alcoholic young Pollock was not trying to produce art but to get help, it is not surprising that the drawings are no more interesting than any other spray of surrealist symbolism. Equally unsurprising was the reaction of Pollock's widow: that the public display of such material was in regrettable taste...
...Chasey falters, Dartmouth is still not necessarily in trouble. Chasey's back-up man, Bill Pollock...
...remember a kaleidoscope of images: Sassetta's Magi colorfully dotting a hill, the light passing through the stained-glass window of Vermeer's work, the strength of Picasso's Gertrude Stein, Rousseau's Tropics, with a monkey that looks like he's blowing bubbles with orange bubble gum, or Pollock's Autumn Rhythm defying the limits of its canvas. As if each color of Morris Louis' "unfurled" is a work from the show, one sees them falling off to the sides leaving a space of white light shining from the center. One loses his hold on any one color...