Jackson Pollock | AB EX NY
Summary
TLDRThe script delves into the groundbreaking work of Jackson Pollock, whose abstract expressionism revolutionized painting by transcending traditional techniques. Pollock's method involved a dynamic, physical interaction with the canvas, creating a visual representation of his internal energy and psyche. His spontaneous, performance-like approach to art-making, devoid of preliminary sketches or plans, resulted in paintings that appear to move, engaging viewers with their kinetic energy and embedded materials, embodying the essence of Abstract Expressionism.
Takeaways
- 🌟 Jackson Pollock's paintings are audacious and continue to astound viewers even sixty years later due to their groundbreaking nature.
- 🎨 Pollock's approach to painting was extreme and even bewildering to himself, as he questioned whether his work was a painting at all.
- 🏞️ Pollock's work represents a new age in art, following a period where civilization had nearly self-destructed, reflecting a collective sense of renewal.
- 🌐 The movement to transplant the center of the Avant Garde from Paris to New York required artists to be bold and innovative in their painting techniques.
- 🛠️ Each artist, including Pollock, invented new tactics for painting, moving away from traditional brush strokes to more expressive methods.
- 💧 Pollock's technique involved using the wooden tip of the brush to fling, drip, spread, or ooze paint across the canvas in various dynamic ways.
- 🌳 A famous anecdote illustrates Pollock's connection with nature, suggesting that he saw himself as an embodiment of it, which is a core idea of Abstract Expressionism.
- 🧘 The focus of Abstract Expressionism was on the artists themselves, their energy, psyche, values, and physical presence, which is evident in their work.
- 🕺 When viewing a Pollock painting, one can't help but imagine the physical movement involved in its creation, as if the painting itself is in motion.
- 👀 The viewer's eye and possibly their body move as they take in the full expanse of a Pollock painting, engaging with its layers and textures.
- 🎨 Pollock's paintings feature a variety of paint types and even embedded objects, creating a rich, textured, and engulfing visual experience.
- 📐 Unlike traditional methods, Pollock did not start with a sketch or preconceived plan, making his paintings akin to spontaneous 'performance art'.
Q & A
What impact does Jackson Pollock's painting style have on the audience according to the script?
-Jackson Pollock's painting style has the power to astound the audience even sixty years later, with its audacity and the sense of breaking into uncharted artistic territory.
How did Jackson Pollock feel about his own work, as described in the script?
-The script suggests that Jackson Pollock himself felt somewhat bewildered by his own work, to the point of asking his wife if what he had made was a painting, indicating uncertainty about his creation.
What was the significance of the shift of the Avant Garde center from Paris to New York, as mentioned in the script?
-The shift signified the boldness of the artists who were trying to establish New York as the new hub of innovative art, making their paintings a clear evidence of this change.
How did Jackson Pollock's painting technique differ from traditional methods?
-Jackson Pollock departed from using a brush for traditional brush strokes and instead used the wooden tip of the brush to fling, drip, spread, or ooze paint across the canvas in various motions.
What anecdote is shared in the script about Jackson Pollock's view on nature and his art?
-The script shares an anecdote where Jackson Pollock, when asked by artist Hans Hoffman if he liked to paint nature, supposedly replied 'I am nature,' reflecting the essence of Abstract Expressionism.
What aspect of human beings was of primary interest to the Abstract Expressionist artists, according to the script?
-The Abstract Expressionist artists were primarily interested in the energy, psyche, values, principles, and physical presence of human beings, as reflected in their art.
How does the viewer's experience change when observing a Jackson Pollock painting, as described in the script?
-The viewer's experience is dynamic, as the script suggests that one cannot help but imagine their own body moving in response to the energy of the painting, and the painting seems almost alive due to the viewer's moving perspective.
What materials did Jackson Pollock incorporate into his paintings, as mentioned in the script?
-In addition to paint, Jackson Pollock embedded various materials such as keys, coins, or bits of trash into his paintings, adding to the texture and depth of the artwork.
How did Jackson Pollock's approach to creating a painting differ from traditional pre-planned methods?
-Jackson Pollock did not start with a sketch or a precalculated plan; instead, his approach was spontaneous, with the artist acting as a performer engaged in a set of actions whose results were as surprising to him as to the viewers.
What does the script suggest about the viewer's interaction with a Jackson Pollock painting?
-The script suggests that the viewer's interaction with a Pollock painting is an active process, involving moving around the room to take in the full picture and engaging with the layers and textures of the painting.
How does the script describe the variety of paint used in Jackson Pollock's paintings?
-The script describes the variety of paint used in Pollock's paintings as including shiny, matte, and even metallic types, contributing to the diverse visual effects of the artwork.
Outlines
🎨 Jackson Pollock's Revolutionary Art
This paragraph discusses the enduring impact of Jackson Pollock's innovative painting techniques, which challenged traditional art forms. It highlights his audacity in breaking from the norm, creating art that was bewildering even to himself. The narrative includes a personal anecdote where Pollock questioned whether his work was a painting, reflecting the uncertainty of his pioneering approach. The paragraph also touches on the broader context of the time, suggesting that the artists were influenced by the post-World War II era, which was characterized by a desire for new beginnings and a shift of the avant-garde from Paris to New York. The focus on individual expression and the energy and psyche of the artist is emphasized, particularly in relation to Pollock's work, which was created without a preconceived plan and involved a spontaneous, performative process.
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Keywords
💡Audacity
💡Abstract Expressionism
💡Territory
💡Ecstatic
💡Dramatic
💡Spontaneous
💡Performance Art
💡Energy
💡Psyche
💡Avant Garde
💡Tactic
Highlights
Sixty years later, Jackson Pollock's paintings still astound us with their audacity.
Pollock broke into uncharted artistic territory with his extreme approach to painting.
Pollock's work was so revolutionary that even he questioned if his creations were paintings.
The post-World War II era inspired artists to explore new artistic expressions.
New York became the center of the Avant Garde, challenging traditional art practices.
Each artist, including Pollock, invented new tactics for painting.
Pollock's technique involved flinging, dripping, and spreading paint across the canvas.
Pollock's famous reply 'I am nature' encapsulates the essence of Abstract Expressionism.
Abstract Expressionism focused on the energy, psyche, and values of the human being.
Pollock's paintings evoke the physical presence and movement of the artist.
Viewers of Pollock's work can't help but imagine their own body moving with the painting.
Pollock's paintings are dynamic, with the viewer's eye and body engaging in the artwork.
Pollock's paintings feature a variety of paint textures and even embedded objects.
In 'Full Fathom Five', Pollock incorporated non-traditional materials into his work.
Pollock's creative process was spontaneous and without a preconceived plan.
Pollock's paintings are considered precursors to performance art.
Pollock's art was a performance in itself, with the artist engaging in spontaneous actions.
Transcripts
Sixty years later, the audacity of a painting like this,
by Jackson Pollock, still has the power,
I think, to astound us.
You have this sense of an artist breaking out
into territory that had not been tried before.
What Pollock was doing was so extreme,
in terms of the painting tradition, that I think
even he himself felt somewhat bewildered by it.
And one of my favorite Pollock stories is this:
When he was at his studio in the Springs in Long Island,
and asked his wife, Lee Krasner, to come look at
what he had done, he asked her, "Is this a painting?"
Not, "Is this a good painting?"
Or, "Is this a great painting?"
He wasn't even sure that what he had made,
whatever it was, was a painting.
The feeling of being at a dawn of a new age,
the dawn of an age that followed one in which,
basically, civilization had almost destroyed itself,
was uppermost -- either consciously or unconsciously --
for all of these artists.
The boldness of what these artists were trying to do,
by transplanting the center of the Avant Garde
from Paris to New York, needed to be evident
in how they made their paintings.
Each of them invented, essentially,
a new tactic for how to make a painting.
And nobody more so than Jackson Pollock,
who departed from the idea of using a brush a
nd making brush strokes to paint a scene --
and instead, with the wooden tip of the brush,
either fling or drip or spread or ooze the painting
across the canvas in these ecstatic,
dramatic, slow, fast, wavy straight --
(There's no end of the adjectives you could use.)
-- lines that fill it from corner to corner,
from top to bottom, left to right.
Another famous anecdote about Jackson Pollock
concerns the time that the artist Hans Hoffman
asked him if he liked to paint nature.
And, supposedly, Pollack's reply to him was,
"I am nature."
And whereas that story may or may not be true,
and certainly plays on Pollock's reputation
as having been very gruff,
and not a man of many words at all,
it does convey something essentially true
about Abstract Expressionism.
That the topic that most interested these artists
was themselves, and in more general terms,
the human being.
So the interest was the energy of a person,
the psyche of a person,
the values or the principles of a person,
the physical presence of a person.
When you look at a painting by Jackson Pollock,
there's no way that you can think of it
just being made by fingers and hands.
Indeed, it's hard for you not to imagine
your own body moving, leaping, dancing, straddling,
juggling around the canvas on the floor.
This energy is what sets Pollack apart
from almost any other artist.
It's almost hard to believe that the painting
is not moving while you're looking at it.
And, of course, the reason is that it's your eye --
your eye is moving --
and maybe your body is even moving too,
as you go from side to side of the room
to take in the full expanse of the picture.
And as you try to dig in to the picture,
and figure out where one line starts and stops,
or which layer is on top of another,
or where the blurry areas of paint get interrupted,
or interrupt the lines, you also realize
that there are all sorts of different kinds of paint --
some shiny, some matte, some even metallic.
And in a painting such as Full Fathom Five,
you realize it's not just paint,
but it's things that are embedded in it,
whether it's keys or coins or bits of trash.
This is the world he's brought into
the swirl of that surface.
And the paint has the power to engulf
the other materials in the atmosphere that it's creating.
For all of these works,
Pollack did not start out with a sketch.
He did not start out with some kind of
precalculated plan of where the painting would go.
And in that way, we think about Pollock paintings
very much as precedents to a lot of art
which has since then been called 'performance art' --
because as he was making a painting,
the artist was, in a sense, a performer.
He was not somebody fulfilling a preconceived plan.
He was somebody engaged in a spontaneous
set of actions whose results would be
as much a surprise to him as to anybody else.
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