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Wednesday 30 March 2011

Symposium Two Presentation on Jackson Pollock - (Group 9)

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Here is the finished Powerpoint Presentation - with Referenced Illustrations on the Slides and a Conclusion at the end.

My Bibliography



Anfam.D (1990) Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames and Hudson.


Emmerling.Leonhard (2003) Pollock. Germany: Taschen.


Landau.E (1989) Jackson Pollock. London: Thames and Hudson.


Poligrafa.E (2003) Jackson Pollock. Barcelona: Filbao, S. A. Barcelona.


http://www.time.com/time/80days/480105.html [Assessed 30/03/11].


Varnedoe.K (1998) Jackson Pollock. New York: The Museum of Modern Art.



Illustrations

Fig 1: (Emmerling:94)
Fig 2: (Emmerling:1)
Fig 3: (Emmerling:73)
Fig 4: (Poligrafa:10)
Fig 5: (Poligrafa:46)
Fig 6: (Landau:1)
Fig 7: (Emmerling:74)

All image's were scanned in from Published Books.

Quote's Used

  • Quote - “I will never be satisfied until I’m able to mould a mountain of stone with the aid of a jack hammer to fit my will” (Landau:12).
  • Quote by Pollock, concerning his interest with Picasso, he stated and threw a book of Picasso’s on the floor “God damn it, that guy missed nothing!” (Emmerling:28)
  • Quote by Pollock - “When I’am in my Painting , I’m not aware of what I’m doing” (Landau:14)
  • Quote - In the New York Times, the critic Robert Coates declared, “I can say of such piece’s. . . only that they seem mere unorganised explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless” http://www.time.com/time/80days/480105.html [Assessed 30/03/11].

    References from the Group

    Adams References.


    Websites

    http://www.time.com/time/80days/480105.html [Assessed 30/03/11]

    Books

    Landau.E (1989) Jackson Pollock. London: Thames and Hudson

    Emmerling.Leonhard (2003) Pollock. Germany: Taschen

    Varnedoe.K (1998) Jackson Pollock. New York: The Museum of Modern Art

    Poligrafa.E (2003) Jackson Pollock. Barcelona: Filbao, S. A. Barcelona


    Anfam.D (1990) Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames and Hudson


    Ryans References.


    Websites:








    http://www.jackson-pollock.com/downfall.html
    Accessed (30th March 2011)


    Jackson Pollock
    11th January 2005
    Author: Joanne Mattern

    Jackson Pollock
    June 1960
    Author: Bryan Robertson

    The Essential World History
    2nd March 2004
    Author: William J. Duiker

    Jackson Pollock (MoMA Artist Series)
    7th September 2009
    Author: Carolyn Lanchner

    Jackson Pollock: interviews, articles, and reviews
    31 January 2000
    Author: Pepe Karmel

    Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956
    31th October 2003
    Author: Leonhard Emmerling

    LIFE
    8 Aug 1949
    Author: Time Inc.

    New York Modern: The Arts and the City
    14 August 2001
    Author: William B Scott

    Art in theory, 1900 - 2000: an anthology of changing ideas
    23 Sep 2002
    Author: Charles Harrison



    Karens References.


    The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists, Peter and Linda Murray, 1959, Penguin books Ltd, England
    The Shock of the New Art and the century of Change, Robert Hughes, 1980, British Broad Casting Corporation, London 
    Modern Art from 1800 to the present day, 1961, Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art, Paris 
    Pollock, Leonhard Emmerling, 2003.



    Paul's References. 


    Websites:


    http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/abstractexpr.html
    http://www.artchive.com/artchive/abex.html


    Final Presentation Notes

    Early Life - Slide 2
    • Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in a small town of Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five sons, and the domestic circumstances of the Pollock family were anything but simple. The boy’s personality was decisively shaped by his father’s long absences, and his mother’s dominant character. Introduced to Alcohol at the age of fifteen.
    • First Piece is a self portrait of himself, produced in 1931. He was shown Art by an Art’s called 
    Jackson Pollock Timeline - Slide 3
    • Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in a small town of Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five sons, and the domestic circumstances of the Pollock family were anything but simple.
    • Introduced to Alcohol at the age of fifteen, it effected his Psychological mind, and had physical effects on his life, combined with a hard domestic up bringing.
    • Attended Art’s School in New York, started Action Painting and had his first show in New York, on Jan 5th 1948. He exploded on the American Art Scene then.
    • Pollock was drinking very heavily by this point and suffered from Depression, which also Included a nervous/mental Breakdown. Alcohol would also be to blame for his death, when on the night of August 11, 1956, drunk he smashed his car into a tree and died. A fellow friend also perished in the accident as well.
    Abstract Expressionism - Slide 4
    • Abstract Expressionism is a landmark in the general history of art and of modern art in particular. Like the Cubist epoch it represents a revolutionary event which revises our view of things before and after. Abstract Expressionism started (post war) after the Second World War.
    • As Hollywood, Coke and Ford soon became part of the everyday geography of experience, so the most famous instances of Abstract Expressionism have provided readymade symbols of modernity to our cosmopolitan eyes. Jackson Pollock’s mazes of paintwork, Mark Rothko’s hovering rectangles and William de Kooning’s strident Women posses the same sort of currency as Mondrian’s grids, Picasso’s multi-faceted faces of Warhol’s Marilyn’s.
    • All were influenced by Existentialist ideas, which emphasized the importance of the act of creating, not of the finished object.
    • All were influenced by Existentialist ideas, which emphasized the importance of the act of creating, not of the finished object.
    • Main Artists - Picasso, Kandinsky, Pollock, Rothko are the main painters of the Abstract Revolution.
    His Work - Slide 5
    • It was the first work of Pollock’s which both ignored human scale, and was conceived to be viewed from close proximity. Like Pollock’s work and similar to Monet, was designed so his pictures to be seen from a certain distance, at which separate brushstrokes and juxtapositions of color’s merge in the eye into a motif and the overall composition becomes legible. Pollock’s work also invites close up viewing.
    • He was commissioned to paint a mural for a lady’s party and struggled to paint it, until he started and finished it in a single night. 
    • He also used Watered down Paint and Emulsion on his work as they were a lot more runny.
    • He also listened to Music and painted using his bodies response to the song he was listening to. He often Listened to Jazz.
    • His Psychoanalytical Drawings - drawing he used to tell his therapists how he’s feeling and try and tell them what he failed to do verbally.
    • His dancelike movements Pollock made during the painting process have frequently been described as encouraging a free flow of unconscious imagery and it’s immediate communication to the canvas.
    • Quote by Pollock - “When I’am in my Painting , I’m not aware of what I’m doing” (Landau:14)
    • Quote - In the New York Times, the critic Robert Coates declared, “I can say of such piece’s. . . only that they seem mere unorganised explosions of random energy, and therefore meaningless” [Assessed: 30/03/11]
    • To paint his pictures he used;
    • Stones
    • Sticks
    • Hard Brushes - usually left on purpose to go hard so the paint ran off them.
    • Palette Knife
    • His own Body
    Influences - Slide 6
    • He was Influenced by Picasso and Thomas Hart Barton.
    • Quote - “I will never be satisfied until I’m able to mould a mountain of stone with the aid of a jack hammer to fit my will” (Landau:12).
    • Picasso - Neoclassical Period
    • Joan Miro (1893 - 1983)
    • Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
    • Clemente Orozco (1883 - 1949)
    • Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957)
    • David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896 - 1974)
    • Quote by Pollock, concerning his interest with Picasso, he stated and threw a book of Picasso’s on the floor “God damn it, that guy missed nothing!” (Emmerling:28) - He hoped to pick up on something Picasso had missed during his career.
    • He Influenced - Helen Frankenthaler.
    Past and Present - Slide 7 
    • Personally Jackson Pollock has defiantly made his mark on the past, the way he went against what anybody said to him, whether that was about him in general, his work, or what they thought he was better off doing. He showed people a new form of Painting and became a master at it! Wiping the smile off Critics such as Clement Greenberg who critisied his work harshly.
    • Presently he still continue’s to inspire people, and I myself for that matter with his work. Pollock was like Hendrix in the Art World, he invented thing’s people didn’t even think would work, except he ended up Mastering it to great effect, creating huge canvas full of emotion, and pure Artistic Energy through connection with the Canvas. He allows people today do express yourself in whatever you desire. I find his work also has a very strong Link with Graffiti, so it would say presently his work can be seen in that form of Art and within such Artists as Helen Frankenthaler.
    Conclusion - Slide 8 - (Final Slide)
    • Explosively changed the way Abstract Art could be approached.
    • Used his life trauma’s to create his Masterpieces through Mastered Techniques he created himself.
    • Created work that he wanted to create, regardless of what the critics said.
    • Inspired Other Artists
    I tried to make as brief as I could, but it was hard, on the day the note may well be broken down a bit more. You don't have to say everything, but on the day we will should have a quick rehearsal of the presentation so we all know what to do. We need to get in the 10 min slot this time! See you tomorrow in the library at 9:30. I hope you can make it early if not we can have a quick rehearsal as the other presentations are going on quickly.

    See you tomorrow.

    Brief Timeline of Jackson Pollock

    Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming on 28th January 1912. His parents were LeRoy Pollock and Stella McClure Pollock. Jackson was the youngest of five boys.

    His mother made a strong impression on her children when they were young to work in the field of arts; later all five boys did grow up to work within the arts field.

    In 1928, Jackson constantly fought with teachers and pupils in his schools. In March 1928 Jackson was expelled from his first school in California for arguing with a teacher.
    At the age of fifteen, Jackson and his older brother Sanford spent their summer months with a party of land surveyors in the Grand Canyon. During this time, two older men introduced Jackson to drinking. This along with Jackson's rebellious personality, began a series of problems that started the beginning of his alcoholism and later be the cause of his passing.

    A few months later, the Pollock’s moved from Riverside to Los Angeles. At this time Jackson attended Manual Arts High School. Jackson was expelled subsequently later when he and some of his friends handed out a flyer that criticised other students.
    He was given a final chance to go back to Manual Arts High school in September; beginning to take art classes, he was expelled again for punching a teacher. (10-11, Mattern 2005)

    Giving up on high school, Pollock decided to emulate his older brother Charles by moving to New York to become an artist.

    In 1930, after Jackson Pollock arrived in New York, the new urban environment gradually transformed the life within his paintings. Studying at the Art Students League with Tomas Hart Benton, Pollock eventually gave into abstract works that were more light and fluid, and were mobile and unpredictable. (45, Lanchner 2009)

    Later In 1936, Jackson Pollock studied under David Siqueiros, the Mexican Stalinist muralist who later tried to assassinate Leon Trotsky. During the time in the workshop, Pollock experimented with non-traditional materials, pouring and dripping paint and helped build floats for the 1936 General Strike for Peace and May Day parade. (45 Lanchner, 2009)

    In 1940. Jackson showed his work in New York for the first time. Manhattan's McMillan Gallery was putting on a show of Picasso, Matisse and Braque, and proposed to have three unknown Americans exhibited with them, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. (95, Robertson, 1960)

    In 1943, Male and Female was one of the famous paintings in Jackson Pollock's first solo exhibition, held in New York in 1943. It was a shocking painting in a show that critics described as "volcanic" and "explosive.” While the painting reveals Pollock's interest in contemporary European art, it introduces an unprecedented freedom within his paintings.

    On October 25, 1945, Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock were married in New York, in a church on Fifth Avenue. (54, Emmerling, 2003)

    A year later in 1946, Abstract Expressionism was an art movement that began post World War II. This unique style of art, with Pollock at the forefront, was so influential that it put New York as the centre of the western art world. (715, Duiker, 2004)

    In 1947, Pollock painted Full Fathom Five, one of his most famous works.
    At the end of the year, Robert Motherwell asked Pollock to contribute a statement to the magazine ‘Possibilities’, asking about the manner in which Pollock makes his paintings, Pollock said, “My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch my canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and driping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass and other foreign matter added” (25, Lanchner, 2009)

    In January 1948, Betty Parsons presented a new exhibit of Jackson Pollock's art, a grouping that contained some of the artist's first drip paintings. (58, Karmel, 2001)

    In 1949, Life magazine photographed Jackson Pollock posed in front of his massive Number Twelve and proclaimed him "the nation's greatest painter" Pollock wore a rebel's cloak as he stared, tight- lipped, at the camera. (289, Scott, 2001)

    On the 8th August 1949, Life magazine published the sarcastically titled "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The article brought the artist to the attention of the mainstream. (42, LIFE, 1949)

    In 1950, William Wright interviewed Pollock during the same year of his most successful show at the Betty Parsons Gallery. Numerous quotes have been taken from the transcript of this interview, one notable quote, dealing with Pollock’s method of painting, that “new needs new techniques. And the Modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements. It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express his this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. Each age finds his own technique.” (584-585, Harrison, 2002)

    In 1954 Pollock was suffering deeper and deeper into alcoholism “As Pollock’s work was gaining promise, he was struggling with his inner demons of alcoholism and depression. His brothers Charles and Sanford encouraged him to seek treatment, including psychoanalysis in 1937. But in 1938, he suffered a setback in the form of a nervous breakdown.” (jackson-pollock.com, 2011)

    In 1956, Jackson Pollock was involved in a one-car crash; He was driving drunk and overturned his Oldsmobile in the woods off Fireplace Road not far from the cemetery. Killing himself and seriously injuring one other passenger.



    Bibliography


    Websites:
    http://www.jackson-pollock.com/downfall.html
    Accessed (30th March 2011)

    Books:
    Jackson Pollock
    11th January 2005
    Author: Joanne Mattern

    Jackson Pollock
    June 1960
    Author: Bryan Robertson

    The Essential World History
    2nd March 2004
    Author: William J. Duiker

    Jackson Pollock (MoMA Artist Series)
    7th September 2009
    Author: Carolyn Lanchner

    Jackson Pollock: interviews, articles, and reviews
    31 January 2000
    Author: Pepe Karmel

    Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956
    31th October 2003
    Author: Leonhard Emmerling

    LIFE
    8 Aug 1949
    Author: Time Inc.

    New York Modern: The Arts and the City
    14 August 2001
    Author: William B Scott

    Art in theory, 1900 - 2000: an anthology of changing ideas
    23 Sep 2002
    Author: Charles Harrison