Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today, it is not the lyric disembodied stain. Its possibilities for the future turned out to be not just unimagined but non-existent. History, fickle jade, balked at this fence and took a turn. One cannot imagine future painters mining Louis' work for motifs and ideas, the way Jackson Pollock's was mined by Louis and other artists of his generation. Here is the beautiful impasse, the last exhalation of symbolist nuance in America, soon to be a period style...
Bonnard's light and Matisse's luxe, run through Greenberg's reduction mill and then filtered by Louis' own obsession with the ethereal, came out in a curiously attenuated form. But it supported -- and after Louis' death was in turn supported by -- the argument that after Pollock painting had only one way to go. No more figures, organic symbolism or utopian geometry; no more gestural surfaces, tonal structure or cubist layering of space. In future, art would hang onto the spread-out, expansive quality of Pollock's work while refreshing it with a new intensity of color, inspired by Matisse...
...Harvard's Department of Visual and Environmental Studies may elicit sneers from cynics who sense pretension in its long-winded title. It may even evoke images of androgenous New Yorkers waving their clove-cigarettes in the air as they emphasize a point about the role of relativism in Jackson Pollock's later works...
...obligatory? After reading what has been written about the Katz retrospective that opened last month at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, one would think so. The reviews and catalog essays thus far have favorably compared him with Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Jackson Pollock, Frederic Remington, Caspar David Friedrich, Cole Porter and Fred Astaire. "Katz's astonishing achievement," writes Curator Richard Marshall in the catalog, "is to have reconciled abstraction and realism in post-World War II America...
...full stretch in paintings like Andrus, with its slashing chords of violet, ultramarine and cadmium red. Andrus, which was in Kline's last show, was named after his cardiologist; in the spring of 1962 his rheumatic heart gave out. Thus what Kline might have done with color--like what Pollock would have produced in the return to figuration he had begun just before his death--can never be known...