[again via Sivacracy]
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas lets you paint your own Pollock. This was fun to see, especially for a Pollock-hater like me, but then I realized, what an interesting play area for a child. Point your browser at the URL and let your child click away and make his own Pollock!
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Why do you hate Pollack? In the scheme of things he was sort of minor. I’ve looked at some of his painting for awhile and they can be beautiful. He was a bit of a pill kind of guy. One could say a lot more about Pollack, but I don’t think I would classify myself as defending him. Just my version of rejecting him is not directed at him personally. At the claim his painting makes in common with modernism going directly to Picasso.
I’m more interested in realism. Now visual realism is a very nebulous concept. Pollack apparently fancied he was really painting in the air and was capturing how his body moved around the edge of the picture. The skeins of paint falling to the surface below was a ballet for Pollack to choreograph.
But that goes back to Picasso, Braque, and Cezanne. They all tried to address an old conceit to deal with motion in a still picture.
So try to disentangle those two kinds of pictures as they were trying? What does motion do in a still picture? I think they failed in their ambition to explore this boundary between motion and stillness, but how does one decisively say that? Especially if one is say a visual realist?
Pictorial realism suffers when compared to the ‘freedom’ of say Pollack’s abstract noodling. But why?
Or not why. I think about that as a visual artist. It’s important to me in thinking of the history of world art now. But most artist just ‘paint’.
thanks,
Doyle