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...announce themselves until the damage starts. Art bubbles can presage stock market busts, as happened in 1987 and 2000. Several weeks ago, entertainment mogul David Geffen sold two postwar paintings by Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning for a combined $143.5 million. Geffen also sold a Jackson Pollock last week for $140 million, making it the single biggest art sale ever. It topped the previous record breaker--cosmetics magnate Ronald Lauder's purchase of Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I in June for $135 million. Although Geffen is rumored to be liquidating some art to make...
Given time, it was a question that would help a handful of American artists to the breakthroughs that produced Abstract Expressionism, the triumphs of Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and so on. Picasso would not be the only model they looked to. In their late-night arguments, the work of every painter from Uccello to Kandinsky was brought in for questioning and combed through for motifs and ideas, for rules and for permission to break them. But Picasso was the man, the one continually bursting through the confines of art history and coming back with discoveries worth bursting...
...portraits of luminaries; in New York City. Warm and engaged, Holmes captured rare, personal moments in the lives of subjects from Edward R. Murrow (on a tractor on his farm in Connecticut) to Eleanor Roosevelt (surrounded by orphans on a walk through the woods). Holmes' famous shot of Jackson Pollock, cigarette dangling, working intently on one of his trademark splattered canvases, was later reproduced on a U.S. postage stamp...
It’s the reason Jackson Pollock gained an audience, the reason John Coltrane’s free jazz leanings became high art, the reason anyone listens to The Beatles’ “Revolution 9.” As Emerson put it, “art is a nature passed through the alembic of man”; it can translate the havoc of the world into a form that’s easier to understand...
They are packed so tightly that for the majority we can see little more than a head. Part “Where’s Waldo,” part Jackson Pollock painting, this photograph throbs and pulses as if the viewer is standing in the center of the crowd. Just as in Alejos’ other photographs of gatherings, the viewer notes that the peasants are aware of the camera, but just as many look at their children, siblings, or friends. And even though the photograph includes so many people, almost every face is legible...