I was a little surprised when this movie was asked to watch it as a homework. Because Harris, the director of this film, is one of my favorite directors. He devoted ten years to this film. He devoted himself to the imitation and experience of his life habits and hobbies. In 2001, he brought Pollock's short life back to us. Therefore, I watched this movie when I was in college, with a sense of awe, but I didn't analyze it too much. And a few years later, to watch this movie, I still need to complete a review, I always feel very fate.
The beginning of "Pollock" is mostly the same as the content in the footage after one hour and thirty-six minutes of the movie. However, the difference lies in the close-up of "Life Magazine", which serves as the beginning of the whole film. This magazine, founded in 1913, is a household name in the United States, leading the fashion trend, and its appearance at the beginning of the film, in my opinion, has a key meaning. Subsequently, the camera turned to Jackson Pollock, the protagonist of the film. Pollock stared calmly into the distance as he was surrounded by the crowd. The staring person had returned to nine years ago before he even appeared. This film is the official start. However, after watching the film for the first time and watching it again for the second time, I think that at the beginning, the life of Pollock that Harris thought was probably told. At the beginning of the brief prosperous period, Pollock's peak period, the three key words "prestige, confusion, and Lee" were concrete impressions that appeared in my mind. And Pollock's life can also get most of the interpretation in these three keywords.
In this film, the fixed chronological details are fully used. Although the time has been indicated at the beginning of the film, even if it is not shown, the drunk Pollock cursed Picasso. When he woke up in the morning, the broadcast about Japan was preparing to invade Thailand. , Also basically locked in time during the Second World War. After the outbreak of the Second World War, a large number of modernist artists in Europe exiled to the United States, injecting new vitality into American paintings. However, during this period, native American painters seem to be striving for an "American" art form. And Picasso, a European artist with great prestige in the United States, will inevitably make a native American painter like Pollock have ambivalence of love and hate. However, this film does not fully interpret Pollock's life experience from childhood to adulthood, but starts with November 1941. Because this time is a turning point in Pollock's life. At this time, we have to mention the painter Graham. He appreciated Pollock's talents, so in an exhibition he organized, he invited Pollock to send his works. Pollock met Lee Kristina at the first exhibition in his life, and her appearance meant another turning point in Pollock's life. Therefore, the dual meaning makes Harris believe that this time is just right as the beginning.
This film intersperses the environmental changes and emotional changes of Pollock's life into Pollock's creative changes, allowing me to naturally feel the artist's emotions when he is creating. In his early paintings, although there will be some obscure images and symbols, the unconscious and automatic painting movements have already emerged. For example, he directly squeezed paint onto the canvas with paint tubes to organize the picture according to his feelings. However, in the huge mural work he painted for Peggy, this kind of automatism has reached a peak. What impressed me was that he sat on the blank canvas for several days without moving. Finally, when the smoke was lingering in front of his eyes, he looked at the mist, and his uncontrollable impulse to paint burst out in a short time. He dipped a large brush in black paint, and expressed his emotions in the most direct way, without scruples. In the final effect, there is no so-called image at all, only Pentium's powerful color lines cover the whole picture.
Then, in the years when he and Li were on Long Island together, he finally discovered by accident the strange effect of the paint dripping on the ground. This is the encounter between the light of good fortune and the inner need. In fact, this also solves the biggest problem of his painting concept. , Because the motion of holding a paintbrush on the canvas is still not pure, there is no way to make him paint with emotions without distracting thoughts. Can not avoid the interference with the clutter of ideas. However, the accidental free fluid of paint solves this problem well. It has vividness that cannot be replaced by hands, and there is no obvious conflict between the previous color and the next color. The final effect is, It has a strong sense of power when seen up close, but it is very soft when seen from a distance, and the feeling of full width has also opened up the field of abstract art. In this way, Pollock relied partly on the merits of good fortune and partly on the control of the form of the picture in the past, purifying and releasing his own feelings and emotions in each painting. His full-scale walking and dripping also made the painting break away from the painting. The static concept on the shelf has entered a specific dynamic behavior.
The whole film does not actually study Pollock's skills in detail, but focuses more on depicting his creative emotions and inner world. In the film, I saw a pure artist. He lives paranoidly in his own life. His emotional expression is real without rhetoric. He doesn't care about the worldly vision, urinates in the fireplace, and responds with straightforward words like "making love" during interviews. (But I think it's just right). He has been pursuing a pure expression all his life. There is a section in the movie where my friend thinks that his painting is too boring blue and needs to be revised. Even when he was drunk, he was unwilling to modify his paintings. His success was accidental, but it seemed inevitable. Because of his noble soul, he couldn't be submerged in the environment at that time. His expression of emotions relies on his emotions. This reminds me of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. Not all artists have to be so crazy to paint. Then, there is this kind of people whose lives seem to be completely messed up except for painting. They seem to have no way to find an exit in a normal world. Nothing else can be done well. But only in painting can they express their emotions. In the freeze-frame picture, you can see the flowing life, and various emotions burst out of the frame. Resonate with the soul through the stillness on the surface.
What is the significance of modern art? In an interview with Pollock, he replied that it is a manifestation of contemporary aspirations. And he used his own paintings more than once to express his paranoia and confusion. He doesn't know what reputation is for him, and he doesn't know how to keep his heart alive forever without being disturbed. Therefore, his death is the best interpretation. After he became famous, he did not ignorant of his conscience and transformed into a businessman born by painting. He has no way to deceive himself. Behind the same painting method, he has no soul and inspiration. Therefore, his paranoia and purity made him unable to live in a world without thoughts and inspiration. Death is the only end. Just like every one of his paintings. His life, like his painting, ended when he thought it should be over. It ended just right. His life is like a painting, and his own way of life is the mark of this era. It exists in the long river of this art.
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