On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, john dunning wrote:
quoted 6 lines maybe you didn't catch one of the main themes in the movie, that pollock> maybe you didn't catch one of the main themes in the movie, that pollock
> did his best work while sober after he married lee krasner and they moved
> out of NYC to long island, it was only after the nuemann film that he
> started drinking again, and subsequently his work/life went to shit.
>
> a small observation from an art historical point of view.
You mean, "Hollywood point of view". As with most movies, this has more
to do with advancing lessons on humanity, not art production. I heard an
interesting theory (advanced by Rosalind Krauss) that Pollock basically
self-destructed after finding out that Picasso had flirted with splatter
painting at some point in time, thus negating his triumphant feeling of
discovery. You see how unhealthy the pioneer/genius dialectic can be?
-rob
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