Who is this unknown to most. What prompts me to comment on a character so little known to non-dealers "but admired by many. and this is his reputation: everyone has seen but few know who he is. This is Jackson Pollock , innovative artists that America has imposed its style and a new way of making art ... SOME 'OF HISTORY
Pollock was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, and was the youngest of five brothers. His father was a farmer and later became a land surveyor employed by the state. Jackson spent his youth between Arizona and California and studied at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles. Was able to get in touch with the Native American culture while accompanying his father to carry out the surveys. In 1929, reaching his brother Charles, he moved to New York where they both became students of the painter Thomas Hart Benton the Art Students League . Benton's predilection for those inspired by the American campaign did a great hold on Pollock, but his rhythmic use of color and his fierce sense of independence but had a lasting influence on him.
After watching demonstrations of Native American art ("Sand Painting") and is influenced by Mexican muralists such as the Surrealists, Pollock elaborates in his "shack" of Long Island a technique that will make him famous and unique.
TECHNOLOGY
speak of dripping, a way hitherto inconceivable to apply the color. The brush that never touches the canvas, but is literally launched by hardened brushes, sticks, syringes and so on. The picture is initially placed on a classic stand, then left the ground, giving the artist complete freedom to move. The gesture, which seems instinctive and "animal", is instead calculated in agony. Pollock knows what will go to paint and every picture, in this sense, from a different impression. From the morbidity, shock, complete figurative ...
by chance I started to follow him to school when, on the books of art, showed little boxes dei propri lavoro. Impressionato fin da subito ho cercato libri sul'artista (non vi dico che difficoltà ).
Le parole ora devono spegnersi per lasciar posto all'impressione...
LINK: http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=vy6Omz1bDPg
Nel 2000 venne poi girato un film biografico sulla vita dell'artista (tit. "Pollock") fatto girare qualche giorno fa in tv.
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