{"id":11121,"date":"2020-12-11T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:16:24","slug":"pre-drip-pollock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/11\/pre-drip-pollock\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Drip Pollock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/10\/arts\/design\/-pollock-mural-guggenheim-drip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-10968648\">Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">\u201cMural,\u201d his largest painting, is back in New York for the first time in 20 years, at the Guggenheim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/jason-farago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jason Farago<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/12\/11\/arts\/10jackson-pollock1\/10jackson-pollock1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Jackson Pollock&rsquo;s 20-foot-wide &ldquo;Mural&rdquo;(1943), originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and now owned by the University of Iowa. He structured the composition with seven more or less vertical arcs of brown-to-black, which encourages you to read it horizontally, like a narrative panorama.\"\/><figcaption><em>Jackson Pollock\u2019s 20-foot-wide \u201cMural\u201d(1943), originally commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim and now owned by the University of Iowa. He structured the composition with seven more or less vertical arcs of brown-to-black, which encourages you to read it horizontally, like a narrative panorama. Credit The Pollock-Krasner Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jacques-Louis David it was \u201cThe Oath of the Horatii,\u201d for Kazimir Malevich it was \u201cBlack Square,\u201d for Virginia Woolf it was \u201cJacob\u2019s Room,\u201d for Amy Winehouse it was \u201cRehab.\u201d These are the breakthrough works \u2014 the hinges between the early career and the mature one. Everything before them looks like a warm-up, everything after like a natural outcome, though at the moment of their creation, who could tell?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Jackson Pollock the hinge was soldered in 1943, when Peggy Guggenheim commissioned him to execute his first monumentally scaled painting: a 20-by-8-foot mural for the narrow vestibule of her Upper East Side townhouse. He\u2019d already won some acclaim for early, Surrealist-inflected paintings, heavily influenced by his teacher Thomas Hart Benton and by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/20\/arts\/design\/vida-americana-mexican-muralists-whitney.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mexican muralists<\/a>\u00a0he revered. But in \u201cMural,\u201d Pollock opened up into canvas-covering gestural abstraction, with raw, sweeping lines applied with the action of the full body. The ponderous symbolism and overcalculated squiggles of Pollock\u2019s first years got channeled to something rhythmic, automatic, almost dancing, and almost drippy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/10\/arts\/design\/-pollock-mural-guggenheim-drip.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Jackson Pollock, Before the Drip \u201cMural,\u201d his largest painting, is back in New York for the first time in 20 years, at the Guggenheim. By\u00a0Jason Farago For Jacques-Louis David it was \u201cThe Oath of the Horatii,\u201d for Kazimir Malevich it was \u201cBlack Square,\u201d for Virginia Woolf it was \u201cJacob\u2019s Room,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}