Jackson Pollock suffered from a drinking problem. Soon after, Pollock met a painter in Greenwich Village, Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden), who showed passionate interest in his artistic style and work. As the two became romantically involved, Krasner also began to take on the role as his manager. Krasner proved her devotion to Pollock by staying by his side no matter what the circumstance; even though time after time he was repeatedly in and out of being a crazy demented alcoholic. After marrying, the two isolate themselves by moving away from the city to Long Island, where Pollock seemingly contemplates his life as an artist. With growth and change comes a whole new artistic style; one that had never been seen or painted by anyone before. Ultimately, as Pollock reached the height of his success, he unfortunately turns to the bottle again and is met with an untimely death.
Jackson Pollock was a trailblazing painter. He was also an alcoholic, a manic-depressive and completely out of control. Truth of the matter is, though, there are a lot of brilliant, self-destructive people in the world. What the movie Pollock has to do and ultimately fails to do is make us believe there is a reason that we should be more interested in him than all the other brilliant self-destructive people in the world.
But Pollock could never escape the dichotomy of his career the artist who wants to express himself but shut out the world. He had no interest in conveying the exterior world in his art. He strove to be the artist of his interior life.
And we understand the true tragedy of Pollock's life that his ability to express himself through paint splatters somehow wasn't enough.
Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 18, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming. He was the fifth and youngest son of LeRoy McCoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock. ... It was in 1943 that Pollock held his first solo show. ... As Pollock described it, "On the floor I am more at ease. ... As a result of this style of paintings Pollock was dub...
Jackson Pollock was a man who was almost as famous for his drunken, violent rages as he was for his Art. ... Jackson Pollock adopted different styles of painting during his lifetime. ... Pollock garnered both support and ridicule for many of his "drip" paintings. ... When the artist Hans Hoffman came to see Pollock's works he made the comment "You do not work from nature", to which Pollock rather gruffly responded "I am Nature!" ... However, out of this came one of Pollock's most famous quotes - " And I don't use - I don't use the accident - "cause I deny the accident."...
Irony in Art The first artist I have chosen to review is Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian Artist who works in New York. ... The public, coming to see an exhibition of Jackson Pollock, understood so well my concept that they thought it was Jackson Pollock himself welcoming the public!... The second Artist I have chosen to review is Bruce Nauman. ...
Kaufman and Zigler (1987) reviewed evidence suggesting that abused children become abusive parents and concluded that the case for transmission across generations has been overstated. ... Investigations done with and without control groups indicate abusing parents report high rates of having been abused physically during childhood (Steele and Pollock 1974; Horowitz and Wollock 1981; Oliver 1978; Kotelchuk 1982; Friedrich and Wheeler 1982). ...
Statement of problem In our research paper we looked at young marriages especially of those in college. This topic was of interest to us because of our college careers and upcoming marriage. Jeremy is currently a junior in chemical engineering and I am a junior in elementary education. We oursel...
Intercultural communication has many barriers and benefits and these will be reviewed as well as the role this type of communication plays in education. ... According to Emmitt & Pollock (1993), an individual uses language for a whole range of different purposes and sometimes the message received is not always the message sent. ...
