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is pollock someone to consider?


"and I don't use the accident - 'cause I deny the accident"

"the modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces...the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating."

"my opinion is 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 this age....in the old forms...each age finds its own technique."

"Paintings, i think, today -the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement."

"technique is just a means of arriving at a statement."

[Jackson Pollock. all taken from an interview w/ William Wright. c. 1950]


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----

[Jackson Pollock. Handwritten Statement. c. 1950]