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Pollock, Jackson (US) - Autumn Rhythm Number 30

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of "get acquianted" period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of it's own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Jackson Pollock, 1947 Statement

Jackson Pollock 51: Short Film Captures the Painter Creating Abstract Expressionist Art

In the summer of 1950, Hans Namuth approached Jackson Pollock and asked the abstract expressionist painter if he could photograph him in his studio, working with his “drip” technique of painting. When Namuth arrived, he found:

A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor. Blinding shafts of sunlight hit the wet canvas, making its surface hard to see. There was complete silence…. Pollock looked at the painting. Then unexpectedly, he picked up can and paintbrush and started to move around the canvas. It was as if he suddenly realized the painting was not finished. His movements, slow at first, gradually became faster and more dancelike as he flung black, white and rust-colored paint onto the canvas.

The images from this shoot “helped transform Pollock from a talented, cranky loner into the first media-driven superstar of American contemporary art, the jeans-clad, chain-smoking poster boy of abstract expressionism,” one critic later wrote in The Washington Post. But Namuth wasn’t satisfied that he had really captured the essence of Pollock’s work. He wanted to capture Pollock in motion and color, to focus on the painter and painting alike.

Above, you can watch the result of Namuth’s second effort. The ten-minute film, simply called Jackson Pollock 51 (the 51 being short for 1951), lets you see Pollock painting from a unique angle — through glass. The film achieved Namuth’s aesthetic goals, but it came at a price. Apparently the filming taxed Pollock emotionally, and by the evening, the painter decided to pour himself some bourbon, his first drink in two years. A blowout argument followed; Pollock never stopped drinking again; and it was downhill from there…

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Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. His early work with multiple cameras operating in sequence lead to the development of motion pictures, and a new way of seeing and recording motion through time. In 1887, his photos were published as a massive portfolio, with 781 plates comprising 20,000 of the photographs, in a groundbreaking collection titled Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements. This work is widely used as references by artists, animators, and students of animal and human movement from the time it was released until today.

Duchamp's first work to provoke significant controversy was Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) (1912). The painting depicts the mechanistic motion of a nude, with superimposed facets, similar to motion pictures. It shows elements of both the fragmentation and synthesis of the Cubists, and the movement and dynamism of the Futurists. He submitted the painting to the 1913 "Armory Show" in New York City. The exhibition was officially named the International Exhibition of Modern Art, displayed works of American artists, and was also the first major exhibition of modern trends coming out of Paris. American show-goers, accustomed to realistic art, were scandalized, and the Nude was at the center of much of the controversy.

Sebring’s modern reinterpretation of Muybridges’s classic process builds upon the work of Cubists and Futurists who sought to capture the motion of human figures in action through time. These painters were inspired by Muybridge's groundbreaking work that started our fascination with moving images. Sebring pays homage to the 1913 Armory Show on its 100th Anniversary with a multi media exhibit of massive proportion. He unveiled the work based on these concepts, for the first time, in the 69th Regiment Armory, where the original 1913 show was installed. The work was manifested as large printed photographs, sculpture, interactive kiosks, and an epic 60 foot projection with original music score.

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