Unfortunately, there was no Jackson Pollock of the camera.
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Jennifer Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.
Who among us has not gazed thoughtfully and patiently at a painting of Jackson Pollock and thought "What a piece of crap?"
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock.
Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art. " That's okay.
Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
It's impossible in our postmodern era for anyone to be original - for anybody to do what Jackson Pollock did.
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman.
