Pollock

Sobre Pollock

Pollock é um filme de drama biográfico independente americano de 2000 centrado na vida do pintor Jackson Pollock, suas lutas contra o alcoolismo, bem como seu conturbado casamento com sua esposa Lee Krasner. Ele é estrelado por Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Val Kilmer, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan e Sada Thompson. Foi dirigido por Harris.

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Pollock é um filme de drama biográfico independente americano de 2000 centrado na vida do pintor americano Jackson Pollock, suas lutas contra o alcoolismo, bem como seu conturbado casamento com sua esposa Lee Krasner. O filme é estrelado por Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan e Sada Thompson, e foi dirigido por Harris. Marcia Gay Harden venceu o Oscar de Melhor Atriz Coadjuvante por sua interpretação de Lee Krasner. Ed Harris recebeu uma indicação ao Oscar de Melhor Ator por sua interpretação de Pollock. O filme foi um projeto pessoal de longo prazo para Harris baseado em sua leitura da biografia de 1989 Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, escrita por Steven Naifeh e Gregory White Smith. Enredo Na década de 1940, o pintor expressionista abstrato Jackson Pollock exibe pinturas em mostras de arte em grupo ocasionais. Pollock vive com seu irmão Sande e sua cunhada Arloie em um minúsculo apartamento na cidade de Nova York. Com Arloie esperando um novo bebê, Pollock decide se mudar por ela. Logo depois, Pollock conhece e se interessa pela artista Lee Krasner. Ele descobre mais tarde que seu irmão conseguiu um emprego em Connecticut construindo planadores militares para evitar o alistamento.

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Notable quotes

“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.”
— Quote in Pollock's letter, Los Angeles (October 22, 1929) to Charles and Frank published in Jackson Pollock & Family (2011) American Letters: 1927-1947, Cambridge, UK & Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, p. 16
“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 ]”
— As quoted in Clifford Ross (ed.) Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, New York: Abrahams Publishers (1990), p. 137
“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.”
— pp. 142-143
“My concern is with the rhythms of nature.. .I work inside out, like nature.”
— Quoted in Leonhard Emmerling (2003) Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 Taschen, p. 48
“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'.”
— Quote of Franz Kline in Evergreen Review, vol. II, no 6 (Autumn 1958), p. 11-15
“To me, Pollock is the height of American painting. It's very lyrical.”
— Quote of Cy Twombly, in the interview: 'Cy Towmbly, 2000', in June 2000; published in Interviews with American Artists by David Sylvester, David Sylvester, Chatto and Windus – London 2001; p. 179

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