Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase.
Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.
Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter.
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
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