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Forty-five years ago this June, Americans were engrossed in reading such bestsellers as Irving Stone's fictionalized biography of Michelangelo, "The Agony and the Ecstasy," William Shirer's "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," and John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage." A little book of essays entitled "Art and Culture" was hardly noticed by the mass audience, yet it was to have a huge influence on the growing discipline of art history. The long life of the author of that book, the art critic Clement Greenberg (1909-1994), extended over critical years in the history of American art. He was central to the movement of American painting from the periphery to the center of the Western art world. As the champion of abstract expressionism, he sold the world on the idea that the history and lo...
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) presents, Jackson Pollock at Williams College, a unique opportunity to see Pollock's famous "drip" paintings in the Berkshires. These works are extremely fragile and rarely travel. One of Pollock's paintings will be coming to the Williamstown Art Conservation Center because for conservation treatment; the other pieces will be used for purposes of comparison. After the conservation process, the works will hang at WCMA, beginning April 14. Jackson Pollock at Williams College will feature Number 2, 1949 from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Number 13A, 1948: Arabesque, from the Yale University Art Gallery, and Number 7, 1950, from New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The exhibit...
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Beloit - Among the hundreds of items to be auctioned this afternoon at a Beloit auction firm, right after six pieces of pink Depression glass and before an old erector set, is a small painting of black, orange and canary-yellow drips and dribbles. It might be a painting by Jackson Pollock, one of America's most famous artists, whose work has sold for millions of dollars. Or it might not be a Pollock.
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It seems more than apt that, by the end of Gail Levin's new biography of American artist Lee Krasner, the reader might feel as if they have journeyed through a hurricane -- a whirlwind of nonstop action, emotion and gritty integrity. Let's not call her "the little engine that could," but there is the perpetual sense, through a story that barrels through seven decades of the 20th century, that Krasner was a living embodiment of artistic purity. Perhaps even more so than her husband Jackson Pollock, but then we'll get to him.
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The critical writings focusing on the works of art historian Clement Greenberg illustrate the lack of a unified approach to art criticism. Greenberg has been traditionally classified as a formalist critic, but many critics have also noted that he did not totally emphasize formalist elements in his criticism of such artists as Jackson Pollock. These critics cited that Pollock was more an example of vulgarity than individualism.
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Beloit - An Austin, Texas, man who loves Jackson Pollock and never dreamed he could ever own a painting by the famous American artist paid $53,000 Wednesday at an auction for what may or may not be an authentic Pollock. But Bill Kolb, 62, was willing to take the chance.
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There has long been a close, if uneasy, relationship between music and the visual arts. Vincent Van Gogh studied organ music for a time but frustrated his teacher by constantly comparing chords to colors. More recently, one can see a common ethos in the rise of bebop jazz and the drip painting of Jackson Pollock in the 1950s. In the '60s, the psychedelic movement was as much about aesthetics - the swirly Fillmore posters and far out fashions - as music. And both the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, among the acts that did the most to bring a sense of visual spectacle to arena rock shows, had band members who went to British art schools before making it in music.
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I finally had the opportunity to visit the recently renovated Museum of Modern Art in New York. Wow! If there's a more visitor-friendly "large" museum, I have yet to see it. The new space is downright gorgeous.
