American director Ed Harris directed and starred in "Pollack Pollock" (2000). The film won two Oscars at an unexpected level. Ed Harris spent a full 10 years on this, immersing himself in studying the biography of the American master of abstract expressionism, Pollock Pollock (1912-1956). Pollack is recognized as the number one player in American modern painting to break away from European standards and establish a leading position in the international art scene.
Ed Harris carefully figured out the painter's heart and behavior, which can be said to be completely integrated into the creative situation of the painter's life. The film's depiction of the painter inevitably has traces of excessive force, which makes people inexplicable and abrupt, but on the whole it restores the true state of Pollack. Rebellious painters have an unruly soul and a mad heart. This is exactly what makes people unforgettable.
Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming, USA in 1912. In 1929, he studied at the Art Students League of New York and studied under Benton. In 1943, he turned to abstract art. In 1947, he began to use the “drip painting method”. The huge canvas was spread on the ground without sketches or fixed positions. It was drawn completely based on intuition and experience into a complex and indistinguishable net with disordered lines, known as “action painting”.
The film fits the extreme exploration of Pollock's paintings. The fundamental significance of Pollock's painting is to get rid of all constraints and pursue extreme freedom and openness. It promotes the development of human beings' bold creative consciousness.
As a leader of Western art at the time, Pollack created a large number of abstract oil paintings with his extraordinary genius and courage, and laid the foundation for the creation of performance art. He deservedly became an art star in the eyes of Americans.
Pollack does not claim to be a successful person. His anti-traditional creative spirit inspired his primitive and wild inspiration. He applied the inspiration to oil paintings to express his inner world.
However, his self-enclosed personality formed a strong contradiction with it, and his dissatisfaction with society and culture has pushed him into the abyss of pain again and again. He is drunk and decadent, but never stops creating. A life full of resentment gradually swallowed his marriage, career, and beliefs until one summer night in 1956, when the 44-year-old Pollack finished a short, painful but legendary life.
A person who had met Pollock recalled: “Entering Pollock’s studio is like entering another world. The artist fully exposed his thoughts and feelings in his studio... When he was painting , He indulges in terrifying actions."
These criss-crossing paints left on the canvas, and the patterns constructed thereafter are exciting, recording his direct body movement when painting, so the audience can share the experience of creating these color blocks. The composition design of this painting method has no center, and the structure is indistinguishable. It has distinct characteristics of abstract expressionism. The main works include "Autumn Rhyme: No. 30", "Mist of Lavender: No. 1", "The Cathedral", "Blue Rod: No. 11" and so on.
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