Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...applaud "Hard-Sell" Hoving. He, at least, has enough sense to realize that museums must sell, and that Wyeth's "small and somewhat predictable area of visual sensation" is vastly preferable to Jackson Pollock's large and somehow unpredictable area of dribbles and drops...
Starting with Jackson Pollock, one can easily think of a dozen modern American artists who have not had retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again...
...Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950"-opened last week at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Organized by MOMA's painting curator Kynaston McShine, it sets out to expose a hidden thread in American art, the umbilical cord that connects such abstract expressionists as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko with the landscapists of the 19th century, like Albert Bierstadt and Edwin Church...
Relay Station. The same Romantic awe at the rolling ocean that fills Al bert Pinkham Ryder's Toilers of the Sea, 1880, runs through the work of John Marin right up to his death in 1953. It also provides an essential clue to early Pollock. The immense, horizontal still ness of 19th century plains landscape floods the work of Georgia O'Keeffe...
Energy Beyond Confines. When Jackson Pollock, some years later, explored a similar kind of overall notation and weblike space, his paintings were seen as the epitome of American gusto. It is a curious irony that Tobey, another American painter, having converted city life - crowds, bustle, swift perspectives - into the primary image of his art in the '30s and early '40s, should later have been so monotonously greeted as an Orientalist by other Americans. No doubt this has to do with the intimate scale of his paintings. In any case, the best of Tobey's work reminds...