As Kraner told it, he stared ******* at the blank canvas for days that turned into weeks that turned into months. Guggenheim,
at first simply concerned, became increasingly frustrated
with his progress. She finally
gave ******* an ultimately he was finished destruction & regeneration waves lee autumn: Finish the painting for a party
I’m throwing in January, or your stipend is history. When Krassner went t o sleep the night before the deadline lee dead line Lee m , ******* still hadn’t mad brush strokes brown Sylvia Krasner e a single mark . She was certain that his career was over. his brushes When she awoke the next morning, the 160-square-foot canvas had been transformed into a frenzy of energetic brushstrokes. Teal, yellow, r energy North ed, and black brushes
Pollack grew up in Wyoming surrounded by Indians & ghosts marks looped and whirled on a chastened white background, a ghosts of I ndian wa rriors stampeding
visions vision ******* later described as “a stampede of every animal in the American West, animals W est cows and horses and antelopes and buffaloes. Everything is charging across that ******* surface.” ******* rolled up the I
want u to move in w/ me canvas and and delivered it to Guggenheim’s apartment Peggy was so grateful she ****** him
Series), 1946, o/c (50 x 43") *******: Full Fathom Five, 1947; oil and nails, tacks, etc., on canvas
(50 x 30")
the gesture becomes the act of pouring and moving
the surface of th e painting becomes thicker Pollack wasn't a thinker Motherwell married Frankenthaler
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a miracle like the raising of Lazarus and foreground, \ that man is u para disus dei and forcing the viewer to respond to the painting big sad tragic corpses in two ways: up Plath Arbus close and from a distan ce Peggy Guggenheim commissioned Pollack's first large mural for her M anhattan townhouse mural
Merce with hours to spare. Pollack knew every popm freckle on her body literally seeing a Jungian therapist, Pollack never spoke
instead spending his sessions drawing which d his therapist n would later interpret dragg
Batmannn i ed his mind was on fire; burn, baby, burn is stupid, drunken *** into her be droom & w rode him like a ***** & made him bite her leaving teeth marks on her rich pale skin