Why did Pollock get 'over rated'?

The paintings by Jackson · Pollock who produced the work by the method of skipping paint from the brush on the canvas placed on the floor are abstract, and some people say "I do not know what is amazing". It is pointed out why Pollock progressed and the evaluation was high, there was a single critic there.

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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who think that "This artist is a genius" when seeing the picture of Jackson · Pollock and those who say "This painter is so overrated".

Phil Edwards of Vox who loves abstract expressionism is one of the former.

In front of Pollock's painting ......

It looks like this, it seems too much immersed too much to forget the time.

However, Edwards also said that Pollock has to admit that it is a "painter in doubt".

Why is Pollock a painter who can look up pictures using a microscope?

Why did the actor Ed Harris served as director of the movie on Pollock in 2000?

The answer was beyond the paintings of Pollock. The man who appears in the photo between Pollock's wife, Lee Krasner and the right Pollock, on the left is the key.

This is a picture taken at the house of Master Thomas Heart · Benton . It is Pollock when I was young sitting on the right side of the picture.

The painting called "Mural" announced in 1943 was made famous by Pollock. It is a work drawn for art collector Peggy Guggenheim.

This painting depicts "movement" in the primary color, and Pollock later talks about this painting "Animals in the Western Pioneer Period seems to have flowed".

After announcing this painting, Pollock became a pioneer in the method of placing a canvas on the floor and hanging or throwing paint. And this method contributes to the success of Pollock.

Pollock featured a special page on weekly magazine's life ......

In the fashion magazine "VOGUE", photographs of models shot by Pollock paintings were posted.

Photographer Hans Namus presents video works and pictures of Pollock as a theme.

In 1951, Life announced an article "Big Stars of American Art". While famous painters such as Mark · Rosco , Willem de Kooning and Clyford · Still are shown in the group photo, Pollock exists in its center.

Here, the story goes back to the story of the person in the center of the photo at the beginning.

The name of the person in the picture is Clement Greenberg . Originally he was a salesman of a necktie, but after that he became a person having a big influence on art criticism of the 20th century.

Greenberg wrote an essay "Avant Grade and Kitsch" in 1939 and proposed that "Art is a fort for mass consumption culture". However, since Greenberg was a beginner with respect to art, I later acknowledge what I was discussing about a picture that does not exist at that time.

In addition, I wrote about Piet Mondrian 's painting as "Orange and Purple", but neither color was actually used.

Nevertheless, Greenberg is respected by many painters, Robert Motherwell said: "I do not agree with him in many ways, but there he has" the eyes of the painter " There is no critic who has "painter's eyes" besides him, he said, "I will instantly understand it instinctively."

Greenberg thought that the possibility of contemporary painting is in New York rather than in Paris.

Greenberg's American-centered and extremely masculine art view was compatible with Pollock from the western United States rather than Dutch immigrant artists like Kooning.

Although Koonning was a representative writer of Action Painting lined with Pollock ... ...

Greenberg says in Polish in "American Type Painting" he says, "He is the only person who can make paintings like spreading paint into one meaningful painting."

The world of art in New York has a very close relationship between human beings, and artists and critics sometimes participated in parties. In the 1940s, Pollock and Greenberg both raised their names. According to Edwards, Greenberg is "brain" and Pollock is "soul".

For example, in 1947, Greenberg spoke of Pollock as "perfectly American" and "the most powerful painter in contemporary America" ​​in criticism. Praise by Greenberg pushed Pollock into the main stream.

In 1948, Magazine · Life posted articles about Pollock next to articles about cheese. Polock will be appealed to the general public.

In one article, "A terribly intelligent New York critic welcomes the horribly difficult escape artist shown in the above picture", but this "horribly intelligent New York critic", that is, Greenberg Thing.

Also, there is a woman named Helen Frankenthura in a painter who was active in contemporary Pollock.

Franken Surahler invented a technique of impregnating a thinly melted paint on a canvas not undercoated.

The first painting drawn by the technique "Staining" is "Mountains and the sea" produced in 1952.

The following photographs show Pollock, Greenberg, Franken Salah, and Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife from the left. Franken Surah and Greenberg have dated for five years. Franken Surahler later said that he was talking about Greenberg because "he will not write about my work".

Greenberg helped set up an art museum with the names of abstract expressionist painters such as Clifford Still and Barnett Newman. However, it is also true that Greenberg overlooked many movements and artists.

Franken Surahler is a mainstream painter and legendary existence. However, although Franken Surahler's name has become famous with the name of Greenberg, it is different from the way Greenberg renowned Pollock on the other hand. From this, Frankenserler can be regarded as both symbols of "artist missed by Greenberg" and "artist that Greenberg made a career".

In any case, the point is that one critic has made "a view of people's paintings" for half a century.

If you feel that Pollock is "overestimated", one who has made that "overvaluation" is definitely Greenberg. But Pollock must be a great painter, not to underestimate Pollock, but also to other abstract expressionist painters.

And it is necessary to know that the content of "art" we learn is decided by one critic.