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Join the roomPaul Jackson Pollock fue un pintor estadounidense. Una figura importante en el movimiento expresionista abstracto, fue ampliamente reconocido por su "técnica del goteo" de verter o salpicar pintura líquida doméstica sobre una superficie horizontal, lo que le permitía ver y pintar sus lienzos desde todos los ángulos. Se llamó pintura total y pintura de acción, porque Pollock cubría todo el lienzo y usaba la fuerza de todo su cuerpo para pintar, a menudo en un estilo de danza frenético. Esta forma extrema de abstracción dividió a los críticos: algunos elogiaron la inmediatez de la creación, mientras que otros ridiculizaron los efectos aleatorios.
“As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.”
“My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art. [remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton ]”
“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual – the Orientals did that.”
“My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.”
“When Jackson talked about painting he didn't usurp anything that wasn't himself. He didn't want to change anything, he wasn't using any outworn attitude about it, he was always himself. He just wanted to be in it because he loved it. The response in the person's mind to that mysterious thing that has happened before has nothing to do with 'who did it first'.”
“To me, Pollock is the height of American painting. It's very lyrical.”
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