05-20-2015, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: SoCal by way of Boston
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Originally Posted by Exo_
For me, Pollack isn't a great painter. His paintings don't show off talent. What they show though, is what he was going through as a person. There is so much emotion in his paintings. Some are more chaotic than others. Some are prettier. Some are just...well, paint. I find him fascinating.
Also, it's the images in the randomness that he didn't plan that make them great to look at. I see new stuff all the time.
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Love this.
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"When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well." - Jackson Pollock
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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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