FILM REVIEW - POLLOCK
I’m not a major fan of abstract art but Pollock proved a very enlightening film, a biopic of the artist Jackson Pollock who gave the world ‘Action painting’ where the paint is allowed to drip from the brush to the canvas rather than for the brush to touch the canvas directly, creating a swirl of emotion and energy that reflects in some way the state of mind of the artist at the time of its creation. So, what was Pollock’s state of mind, - in a word, Pissed, this was a guy with a hell of an alcohol problem, and the film debates whether he was more, or less creative in his most drunken states of mind. His wife sticks by him for most of the period of his rise and fall, but even she gives up on him when he begins to bring prostitutes home with him. Harris, as Pollock and director of the film is brilliant and utterly convincing, funny and darkly brooding at different times... right up to the final truly shocking tragedy of a life cut short through drink when he crashes his car killing himself and one o the two prostitutes accompanying him. Pollock invented a form of art that rapidly overtook him as his insincere imitators simply grasped a technique without a feel for the fragmented intuition he depicted, - the sequences of his painting work are fabulously well realized. One of the best studies of a modern artist at work on celluloid.
Arthur Chappell
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