Jackson Pollock citáty

Jackson Pollock bol jedným z najväčších amerických maliarov, a jeden z najznámejších anglosaských maliarov 20. storočia.

Narodil sa do nepokojných rodinných pomerov, často menil bydlisko, pričom jeho otec stále nebol doma a matka trpela silno autoritatívnymi komplexmi.

Jeho dielo spojované s „newyorskou“ umeleckou školou, sa vyznačovalo abstraktným expresionizmom, ktorý sa v Spojených štátoch objavil po druhej svetovej vojne. Ako väčšina amerických abstraktných expresionistov, smeroval skôr k Jungovej než k Freudovej interpretácii psychoanalytiky, čo sa stalo kľúčovým vo výraze jeho diela.

Svojou činnosťou dal základy novej umeleckej generácii, ktorá stelesňovala ducha doby, jeho život je teda pre pochopenie diela kľúčovým. Pollockova práca bola akýmsi druhom duševného boja a vyžadovala si nadľudskú duševnú silu. Konfrontovať sa s prázdnym priestorom plátna a pokúšať sa naň premietnúť poriadok a zmysel je podľa neho reprezentatívny medzistupeň základnej existenciálnej krízy moderného človeka.

V roku 1923 jedenásťročný Jackson prvý raz navštívil indiánsku rezerváciu a objavil v nej nevšedné motívy abstrakcie nazvané „Primitívne umenie“ amerických indiánov. Počas leta 1927 vyšli najavo jeho sklony k alkoholizmu, umenie sa pre neho stalo spôsobom vybitia emócií, maľovať mu umožňovalo vyjadriť svoj vnútorný vesmír, oslobodiť sa od svojich úzkostí a hnevu.

V decembri 1937 absolvoval detoxikačnú kúru. V tom čase sa nadchol pre primitívne umenie. V októbri 1941 po prvý raz vystavoval v galérii McMillen, zhodou okolností v rovnaký čas ako Lee Krasnerová, ktorá sa neskôr stala jeho ženou. Zoznámil sa tiež s Peggy Guggenheimovou, ktorá sa pohybovala v surrealistických kruhoch a vlastnila galériu na Manhattane. Krasnerová však surrealizmus zanechala a keďže sa s Pollockom presťahovala na vidiek a prehnane sa začala upínať na prírodnú tvorbu.

Neskôr si Pollock osvojil takzvaný drip painting medzi rokmi 1947 až 1951 .

Rosenberg vytvoril koncept „action painting“, ktorý sa prvý raz objavil v jeho článku z roku 1952 nazvanom „The American Action Painters“. V článku Rosenberg definuje maľbu ako akciu. S týmto poňatím umenia sa Pollock výrazne stotožnil.

Pollock sa nakoniec vrátil k alkoholizmu a zabil sa pri autonehode so svojou milenkou a jej priateľkou. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. január 1912 – 11. august 1956
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“My concern is with the rhythms of nature... I work inside out, like nature.”

Quoted in Leonhard Emmerling (2003) Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956 Taschen, p. 48
in posthumous publications

“I can control the flow of paint; there is no accident..”

1940's
Zdroj: Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Ines Janet Engelmann, Prestel Verlag Munich, 2007, p. 54

“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't meant it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment. Only he didn't know it.”

In 'Unframed Space' interview with Berton Roueché, The New Yorker (5 August 1950); as quoted in The Grove Book of Art Writing: Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst ed. Martin Gayford and Karen Wright [Grove Press, 2000, ISBN 0-802-13720-2], p. 546
1950's

“I am nature.”

Attributed by Lee Krasner (1964) in " Oral history interview with Lee Krasner, 1964 Nov. 2-1968 Apr. 11 http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/krasne64.htm", interview with Dorothy Seckler for the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art.
In Krasner's words: 'When I brought Hofmann up to meet Pollock and see his work which was before we moved here, Hofmann's reaction was — one of the questions he asked Jackson was, do you work from nature? There were no still lifes around or models around and Jackson's answer was, 'I am nature.' And Hofmann's reply was, 'Ah, but if you work by heart, you will repeat yourself.' To which Jackson did not reply at all.'
in posthumous publications

“My work with Benton was important as something against which to react very strongly, later on; in this, it was better to have worked with him than with a less resistant personality who would have provided a much less strong opposition. At the same time Benton introduced me to Renaissance art.”

remark on his former art-teacher w:Thomas Hart Benton
As quoted in Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrahams Publishers, New York 1990, p. 137
1940's, Art and Architecture (1944)

“The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject-matter outside themselves. Modern painters work in a different way. They work from within.”

Quote of Pollock in a radio interview (1951); as quoted in Lives of the Great Twentieth Century Artists', (1986) Edward Lucie-Smith, p. 263
1950's