American artist Jackson Pollock was an alcoholic, manic-depressant and often an uncontrollable, angry and insecure man. However, when he painted, he found a sense of freedom and peace, a release from his anger and sadness. The movie “Pollock ”is, in essence, Ed Harris’ labor of love. He bought the rights to the book a decade [...]
JACKSON POLLOCK – Birthday
I am going away for a few days so I am doing some advanced posting about my favourite artists who have birthdays this month, and this is my all time favourite with whom I share a birthday. And Happy Birthday to my son for the 30th January. Did You Know? Many things have been written [...]
Decoding Jackson Pollock
An interesting article from smithsonianmag.com: Did the Abstract Expressionist hide his name amid the swirls and torrents of a legendary 1943 mural? By Henry Adams Smithsonian magazine, November 2009 It was my wife, Marianne Berardi, who first saw the letters. We were looking at a reproduction of Jackson Pollock’s breakthrough work, Mural, an 8-by 20-foot [...]
Jackson Pollock and James Presley’s Birthday
Well the day is nearly over and I just arrived home from work. I wanted to look up something on Google and noticed they had one of Jackson Pollock’s paintings on their search page. It made me think about how much I adore his paintings so I will once again wish him happy birthday and [...]
The $50 Million Question
I just found this article on the Teri Horton-Jackson Pollock documentary. Very well written. What really interested me was the comments that followed, including one by Teri Horton. The anti-Pollock fans all seemed so ignorant to me. Still each to his own taste. If you feel like a good read after you have gone through [...]
Never mind the Pollocks
She lived a life of sex, privilege and money – but all she wanted was credibility within the male-dominated art world. Stuart Jeffries on Peggy Guggenheim, millionaire collector Peggy Guggenheim had an ugly nose. In 1920, she asked a Cincinnati surgeon to make it like the one she had read about in Tennyson’s Idylls of [...]
Shozo Shimamoto
Szozo Shimamoto, was born in Osaka, Japan in 1928, he is an authoratative member of the Gutai Group, which was formed in 1954 in the Kansai region. Other important figures included in the group were the likes of Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayama Akira, Murakami Saburo and Shiraga Kazuo. The activities of the group helped evolve western [...]
Portrait of the artist: The life and art of Jackson Pollock
He was a drunk, a depressive and a wife-beater. Many say he was also a genius. As one of his paintings sells for a record $140m, David Usborne looks at the private side of ‘Jack the Dripper’ If he were alive today, Jackson Pollock, the American painter who electrified the art world with his eruptions [...]
Birth: Jackson Pollock
I thought I would include an old friend as I noticed nobody played with it for a long time, so create your own Pollock, show your kids and have fun. You can print screen crop and print when you have finished. Click here: Pollock Painting Click to change colors. Pollock’s Birth is shot through with [...]
The Art of the “Dreaming”
Kngwarreye, who was 86 years old when she died in 1996, is arguably one of the more significant Australian artists to have emerged in the last decade and a half, and one with a prodigious output. In the last eight years of her life Kngwarreye produced over 3,000 works on silk, cotton, paper and canvas–some [...]
