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THE BATTALION
SEEING LUCIFER
Houston's Museum of Fine Arts brings Jackson Pollock's works closer than ever
w
hen Jackson Pollock
died in 1956, he was
universally recog
nized as the man who created
American modern art. The Mu
seum of Fine Arts in Houston
has brought a collection of Pol
lock's art to Texas to display his
innovative works.
Barry Walker, curator of the
New American Vision exhibit,
which houses Pollock's paint
ings, said Pollock represents the
lid that because of thelao | most creative era in American
art. "Pollock was the first
American artist to be taken se
riously everywhere," Walker
said. "This period, right after
World War II, was the first time
any American artist was taken
seriously in Europe. Before Pol-
aat the shortage of petid| |ock/ art was dominat e d b y the
great Europeans of the time,
like Dali and Chagall. Pollock
put us on the map."
Walker said the exhibit
houses some of Pollock's best
work, including a sketchbook
of studies for works that he re
leased and some that were nev
er painted.
"That is probably going to be
our biggest draw," Walker said.
"That book looks back over all
Pollock at work on one of his later paintings,
"Lavender Mist," using his famed "drip and
illBi'lB iiTi“Tmf Ww** ^*1
slash"technique. He was the first American
to gain respect on the world art circuit.
study at the Arts Student League
in New York City. After he grad
uated, he went on to work in the
easel-painting department of the
Federal Art Project, the govern
ment's first official office to fund
art. Pollock worked his way up
from humble beginnings to be
ing the greatest artist and per
sonality of his day.
Pollock's obituary in Time
Magazine summed up his cult
status: "Died. Jackson Pollock,
the bearded shock trooper of
modern painting who spread his
canvases on the floor, dribbled
paint and broken glass on them,
smeared and scratched them
and raked them with razors ... ;
at the wheel of his convertible."
Though Pollock had been drink
ing before the tragic car accident
that ended his life, it was a fitting
way to end a life lived as if there
were no tomorrow.
Catherine Hastedt, curator of
the J. WayneStark Galleries on
the Texas A&M campus, said
Pollock was "not someone you'd
want to model yourself after"
due to his heavy drinking and
womanizing, but he painted his
own way, just as he lived.
"Pollock was very avant-
garde with his action painting,"
Hastedt said. "He would drip
paint on his canvases when they
were lying on the floor, or he
would tie brushes to a bicycle
wheel and just splash paint on a
canvas. He was trying to create
paintings randomly, but with a
mechanical process. It was called
action painting, because it im
plied motion and took almost a
physical exercise to create."
David Romei, executive direc
tor of the Arts Council of the Bra
zos Valley, said it is impossible to
know American art without be
ing familiar with Pollock's work.
"Jackson Pollock is essential
to understanding American art,"
Romei said. "Pollock created a
whole new manifestation of
modern art — he changed the
entire world's view away from
the European perspective."
Romei said Pollock is con
sidered by many artists and crit
ics to be the "founding father of
abstract" because his work was
the bridge from old-world aes
thetics to the new American
ideas of art. Romei said Ameri
can art took on a new impor
tance in the world after Pollock,
Pollock's "The Deep," painted
in 1953.
and everyone, including college
students, should experience his
work for themselves.
The exhibit in Houston ends
Sunday, June 25.
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JASON BENNYHOFF
PHOTOS COURTESY OF
POLLOCK-KRASNER
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he had done — all he had
learned. The sketchbook is basi
cally nine pages that show his
transformation as he learned
lessons from great artists of the
past, even Renaissance artists,
and how he took those lessons
and made them his own."
Pollock was famous not only
for his work, but also for his
lifestyle. Pollock was a superstar
in his own time, on par with the
later, more famously eccentric
Andy Warhol. Pollock was born
to simple roots in Cody,
Wyoming, which he soon left to
cr
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Moves to
study in
New York
Begins
working
at the
Federal
Art Project
1911
1919
Marries
Lee
Krasner
1938
Male and Female
1991
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