Word: pollocks
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...there are degrees of neglect. Nobody could call the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline overlooked. Not when his pictures have sold for a million dollars and up. Not with his signature style recognizable in an eye blink, the black girderlike slashes on the white ground. But compared with Jackson Pollock, who has been a household word -- well, in some households anyway -- for the past quarter-century, Kline is positively obscure. It's like comparing Sal Mineo with James Dean. Both were in the movie Rebel Without a Cause, but only one of them car-smashed his way into permanent Valhalla...
...deal with Abstract Expressionism. Everyone in the late '50s and early '60s did; that came with the fact of being an American artist. But his solution was cunning: he created an irritably stylish version of Ab-Ex gesture, in which the all-over squiggles of Pollock got absorbed into the loopier, body-based rhythms of '40s De Kooning. In effect, he turned Pollock's rococo lacework into its cruder cousin, graffiti. Did this imply a degree of loss? Certainly; but loss (and a barely suppressed anger at it) is one of the chief themes of Twombly's art. Its model...
...star picture at Christie's, a 1949 Jackson Pollock carrying a house estimate of $2 million to $3 million, scraped through at $1.7 million. And the star picture at Sotheby's the next night, an early Jasper Johns, was expected to bring $8 million but failed to sell at all. The contrast between this and the remembered glories of the $17 million Johns was so poignant that many bidders simply sat moping on their paddles for the rest of the night...
When "the most comprehensive single-artist museum in the United States," as it describes itself, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 16, to whom will it be devoted? Mark Rothko? Jackson Pollock? No -- Andy Warhol. Housed in an industrial building that cost $12.3 million to renovate, the Andy Warhol Museum will display 500 Warhols on six floors and hold 2,500 more in its permanent collection. A theater will show Warhol films, and copies of Interview will be available in an archive...
...show displays Frankenthaler's technique akin to "color field" painting, inspired by Jackson Pollock's "drip paintings." This method uses an unprimed canvas so the pigment seeps into the picture and creates a stain instead of sitting on top of the surface. Through this technique, Frankenthaler has explored the way colors relate both to the surface and to each other, an issue which has interested her throughout her entire career...