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Jackson Pollock
Geburtstag: 28. Januar 1912
Todesdatum: 11. August 1956
Paul Jackson Pollock war ein US-amerikanischer Maler des abstrakten Expressionismus der New York School.
Pollock wurde bekannt mit der von ihm begründeten Stilrichtung des Action Painting. Seine im Drip-Painting-Verfahren angefertigten großformatigen Werke brachten ihm bereits zu Lebzeiten den Spitznamen „Jack the Dripper“ ein.
Pollock war mit der Malerin Lee Krasner verheiratet, mit der er eine Ateliergemeinschaft hatte.
Photo: Unknown author, jackson-pollock_AAADCD_item_5722 / Public domain
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„Vor einiger Zeit schrieb ein Kritiker, meine Bilder hätten weder Anfang noch Ende. Das meinte er nicht als Kompliment, aber es war eins. Es war ein feines Kompliment“
in Bernhard Kerber: Amerikanische Kunst seit 1945 - ihre theoretischen Grundlagen. Reclam Stuttgart 1971. S. 88
Original englisch: "A while ago a critic wrote that my paintings have no beginning and no end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment." - Berton Roueché: Unframed Space. NEW YORKER 5. August 1950; zitiert nach Pepe Karmel, Kirk Vamedoe: Jackson Pollock - Interviews, Articles and Reviews. Museum of Modern Art New York 1999. p. 278
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„Wenn ich in meinem Bild bin, bin ich mir nicht bewußt, was ich tue. Erst nach einer Periode des Vertrautwerdens sehe ich, was ich gemacht habe.“
in Jürgen Claus: Theorien zeitgenössischer Malerei in Selbstzeugnissen. Rowohlt 1963. S. 63, auch in Kammerlohr, "Epochen der Kunst", Band 5; Oldenbourg Verlag 1995
Original englisch: "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about." - My Painting, in: Possibilities I, 1947-48, "Problems of Contemporary Art" v. 4, Georg Wittenborn Inc. New York. Zitiert in Ellen H. Johnson: American artists on art from 1940 to 1980, 1982. p. 4,
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„I don't care for 'Abstract expressionism'.... and it is certainly not 'non-objective', and not 'non-representational' either. I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your consciousness, figures are bound to emerge. We're all of us influenced by Freud, I guess. I've been a Jungian for a long time... Painting is a state of being... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.“
In an interview (1956); published in Conversations with Artists, by Seldon Rodman, New York, Capricorn Books, 1961, pp. 84-85
1950's
„I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..“
In his application for a grant given by the Guggenheim Foundation 1944; as quoted in Abstract expressionism, Barbara Hess, Taschen Köln, 2006, p. 9
1940's
„As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.“
Quote in Pollock's letter, Los Angeles 22 October, 1929 to Charles and Frank in New York; published in: Jackson Pollock (2011) American Letters: 1927-1947. p. 16
1925 - 1940
„When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.“
In 'Possibilities', Vol. 1, no 1, winter 1947-48, p. 79; as quoted in Jackson Pollock (1983) by Elizabeth Frank, p. 68
1940's
„Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual – the Orientals did that.“
Quelle: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, pp. 142-143
„I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today – the more immediate, the more direct – the greater the possibilities of making a direct – of making a statement.“
Quelle: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, p. 144
„Technic is the result of a need new needs demand new technics total control denial of the accident States of order organic intensity energy and motion made visible memories arrested in space, human needs and motives acceptance“
Quote around 1948-'49; as cited in Abstract Expressionism (1990), David Anfam, p. 121
Pollock wrote this text on the back of a photo of himself taken in his own studio.
1940's
„Each age finds its own technique... I mean, the strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.“
As quoted in Francis V. O'Connor (1967) Jackson Pollock, p. 79
in posthumous publications
„I have a definite feeling for the West, the vast horizontality of the land, for instance... I have always been very impressed with the plastic qualities of American Indian art. The Indians have the true painter's approach in their capacity to get hold of appropriate images, and in their understanding of what constitutes painterly subject-matter. Their colour is essentially Western, their vision has the basic universality of all real art. Some people find references to American Indian art and calligraphy in parts of my pictures. That wasn't intentional; probably [it] was the result of early memories and enthusiasm.“
Quote of Pollock, from Twentieth-century American painting, Gail Levin, The Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. London, 1987, p. 267
1940's, Art and Architecture (1944)
„The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion and the other inner forces.... the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.“
Quelle: 1950's, Interview by William Wright, Summer 1950, pp. 139-140
„The important thing is that Clyff Still – you know his work? – and Rothko, and I – we've changed the nature of painting… I don't mean there aren't any other good painters. Bill [ Willem the Kooning ] is a good painter, but he's a 'French' painter [Pollock meant: a French-abstract style]. I told him so, the last time I saw him after his last show,… all those pictures in his last show start with an image. You can see it even though he's covered it up, or tried to…. Style – that's the French part of it. He has to cover it up with style.. [answering Seldon Rodman's question]“
In an interview (1956); published in Conversations with Artists, by Seldon Rodman, New York, Capricorn Books, 1961, pp. 84-85
1950's
„It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.“
1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
As quoted in Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 87
1940's
„I've had a period of drawing on canvas in black – with some of my early images coming thru -, think the non-objectivists will find them disturbing – and the kids who think it simple to splash a 'Pollock' out.“
Quote from Pollock's letter to Alfonso A. Ossorio and Edward Dragon (1951); as quoted in Abstract Expressionism (1990) by David Anfam, p. 175
1950's
„I accept the fact that the important painting of the last hundred years was done in France. American painters have generally missed the point of modern painting from beginning to end... Thus the fact that good European moderns [European artists who lived in the U. S. because of the Nazi-regime] are now here is very important, for they bring with them an understanding of the problems of modern painting. I am particularly impressed with their concept of the source of art being the unconscious. These idea interests me more than these specific artists do, for the two artists I admire most, Picasso and Joan Miró, are still abroad.“
As quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York, 1990, p. 138
1940's, Art and Architecture (1944)
