Ellen G. Landau
Author of Jackson Pollock
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Ellen G. Landau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University.
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Seeing Pollock in the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice a couple of days ago - well, it's like going home to an Australian.
Our Labour government in the early seventies - the one that was sacked a bit later - spent over $2M buying Blue Poles. It was the most ever paid in the world for 'modern' art at the time. It was a National Scandal, of course. Well, I mean, who couldn't bang a bit of paint on a canvas like that? Especially if drunk and Pollock and his mates were when they whacked this show more together.
It inspired a great cleaning product ad on TV in Australia - I rather think Australia must be the only country in the world where Pollock was a household name - Pollock 'does a painting' on his loungeroom floor, goes out, cleaning lady comes in, rolls eyes in exasperated fashion, he's made one of those messes again, but she cleans it all up in no time with - Sorry, can't remember the end.
I digress.
What I wanted to point out, having been a complete narrow minded philistine in the museum is that I discover there is a fantastic connection between Pollock and physics and an observation that art is often ahead of science. For more read the Pollock The Closet Physicist here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/jackson_pollock_closet_physicist-80424 and this on Chaos Theory and Pollock: http://pages.uoregon.edu/msiuo/taylor/art/scientificamerican.pdf
Can I take it all back? Please, sir, I don't want to be a philistine. show less
Our Labour government in the early seventies - the one that was sacked a bit later - spent over $2M buying Blue Poles. It was the most ever paid in the world for 'modern' art at the time. It was a National Scandal, of course. Well, I mean, who couldn't bang a bit of paint on a canvas like that? Especially if drunk and Pollock and his mates were when they whacked this show more together.
It inspired a great cleaning product ad on TV in Australia - I rather think Australia must be the only country in the world where Pollock was a household name - Pollock 'does a painting' on his loungeroom floor, goes out, cleaning lady comes in, rolls eyes in exasperated fashion, he's made one of those messes again, but she cleans it all up in no time with - Sorry, can't remember the end.
I digress.
What I wanted to point out, having been a complete narrow minded philistine in the museum is that I discover there is a fantastic connection between Pollock and physics and an observation that art is often ahead of science. For more read the Pollock The Closet Physicist here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/jackson_pollock_closet_physicist-80424 and this on Chaos Theory and Pollock: http://pages.uoregon.edu/msiuo/taylor/art/scientificamerican.pdf
Can I take it all back? Please, sir, I don't want to be a philistine. show less
Seeing Pollock in the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice a couple of days ago - well, it's like going home to an Australian.
Our Labour government in the early seventies - the one that was sacked a bit later - spent over $2M buying Blue Poles. It was the most ever paid in the world for 'modern' art at the time. It was a National Scandal, of course. Well, I mean, who couldn't bang a bit of paint on a canvas like that? Especially if drunk and Pollock and his mates were when they whacked this show more together.
It inspired a great cleaning product ad on TV in Australia - I rather think Australia must be the only country in the world where Pollock was a household name - Pollock 'does a painting' on his loungeroom floor, goes out, cleaning lady comes in, rolls eyes in exasperated fashion, he's made one of those messes again, but she cleans it all up in no time with - Sorry, can't remember the end.
I digress.
What I wanted to point out, having been a complete narrow minded philistine in the museum is that I discover there is a fantastic connection between Pollock and physics and an observation that art is often ahead of science. For more read the Pollock The Closet Physicist here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/jackson_pollock_closet_physicist-80424 and this on Chaos Theory and Pollock: http://pages.uoregon.edu/msiuo/taylor/art/scientificamerican.pdf
Can I take it all back? Please, sir, I don't want to be a philistine. show less
Our Labour government in the early seventies - the one that was sacked a bit later - spent over $2M buying Blue Poles. It was the most ever paid in the world for 'modern' art at the time. It was a National Scandal, of course. Well, I mean, who couldn't bang a bit of paint on a canvas like that? Especially if drunk and Pollock and his mates were when they whacked this show more together.
It inspired a great cleaning product ad on TV in Australia - I rather think Australia must be the only country in the world where Pollock was a household name - Pollock 'does a painting' on his loungeroom floor, goes out, cleaning lady comes in, rolls eyes in exasperated fashion, he's made one of those messes again, but she cleans it all up in no time with - Sorry, can't remember the end.
I digress.
What I wanted to point out, having been a complete narrow minded philistine in the museum is that I discover there is a fantastic connection between Pollock and physics and an observation that art is often ahead of science. For more read the Pollock The Closet Physicist here: http://www.science20.com/news_articles/jackson_pollock_closet_physicist-80424 and this on Chaos Theory and Pollock: http://pages.uoregon.edu/msiuo/taylor/art/scientificamerican.pdf
Can I take it all back? Please, sir, I don't want to be a philistine. show less
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