Jackson Pollock, The Flame, circa —38, oil on canvas, mounted on fiberboard, Featured Images: Click to Enlarge Jackson Pollock, Landscape with Steer, —37, unpublished lithograph with airbrushed enamel additions, 41 x Jackson Pollock, Stenographic Figure, circa , oil on linen, Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, , oil and enamel paint on canvas, Eight years later, he moved with his family to small-town California.
After working for a time as a hotel manager, his father departed with a team of surveyors, returning just often enough so that his wife Stella could never claim to have been entirely deserted. Subsisting on money her husband occasionally sent, Stella was able to resettle her five sons in Riverside, Calif. All of her boys had an interest in art. Four years later, the family moved again, this time to Los Angeles. Having discovered that he liked to draw, Jackson enrolled in art classes at Manual Arts High School, on the industrial outskirts of the city.
Following his brother in , Jackson, too, studied with Benton. His subjects were landscapes and genre scenes to which his teacher had turned in the mids. Impressed by the Armory Show of , which had given America a first-hand view of the European avant-garde, Benton had visited Paris and carried out pictorial experiments in a Cubist mode. Disenchanted for reasons he never made clear, he became, at the Art Students League, a proponent of the virtues of Renaissance painters, especially El Greco and Michelangelo.
Though Pollock struggled to make those virtues his own, his sketchbooks from s testify to an incorrigible awkwardness. A charismatic figure, he was also a relentlessly dogmatic one. In Graham invited him to show recent work in an exhibition he was organizing for the McMillen Gallery, one of the few New York galleries that showed contemporary art in those days.
Among the other Americans included in the McMillen show, along with such Parisian luminaries as Henri Matisse and Georges Braque, was Lee Krasner, who was also deeply impressed by Pollock—not as a painter but as a person.
Where Graham saw a bumpkin, she saw a shy, irresistibly handsome young man. With her guidance, Pollock found his way into the small, overheated world of progressive painting in New York. The German invasion of France had driven a large contingent of the European avant-garde to the New World, which many of them—the Surrealists, in particular—found uncongenial.
Disinclined to take their American counterparts seriously, they formed cliquish circles and waited for the war to end. Motherwell was game; so was his friend William Baziotes. On their advice, Matta invited Arshile Gorky, Pollock, and a few other painters to his New York studio for a demonstration of automatist techniques.
The breakaway cadre never formed. This would be the winter of Color moves through this picture in quick flickers.
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