It's the "Must See Movies" series again, the first two movies about art that we recommended before, everyone's evaluation is very high,
Van Gogh and Gauguin as well-known artists, their works and stories everyone is more exposed to, and today we want to talk about the protagonist of this movie, you may not be familiar with it, but his name, you will hear
Pollock
Pollock
The master of Abstract Expressionist painting is also recognized as the first contributor to the establishment of a leading position in the international art world in modern American painting to break away from European standards.
The film stars four-time Academy Award-winning American actor, producer, director and screenwriter Ed Harris. As a tough guy type man who is stylized in Hollywood, shooting the life of such an artist cannot be regarded as a trick and a flattering thing in any way.
However, without a little persistent courage and genuine talent, how could the directorial debut be bet on such an artist?
Before deciding to shoot the film, Ed Harris taught himself to paint a few years before shooting. Nor did he have any grandiose words ready to stir the world, but with a keen reflection on value, vulnerability, passion and loyalty, as well as a tribute and remembrance to the painter Jackson Pollock:
It took me almost a decade to make this film. I built an art studio so I could paint on a big ground and create something in the Pollock style. I don't know what I've done. I mixed the film twice, got three different composers, and took a long time to cut it the way I wanted it to be. It was a tough shoot and I ended up spending a lot of money on this film, but I didn't care.
At the beginning of the story, as an artist struggling with society, Pollock becomes an outsider in the context of the gradual development of the New York metropolis. While he was eager to succeed, he had not yet found his true artistic direction.
He liked Picasso, who often painted in casual, lightweight denim. So he also wore dark washed jeans with thick-brimmed rolled-ups and a plain white T-shirt.
He really found his mission after he moved from New York to Long Island. Here, by chance, he discovered his unique method of dripping paint on an unfolding canvas on the floor, and the Jackson Pollock we now know was born.
During this time, Pollock and his wife, marcia Gay Harden, an artist, self-imposed. He even patented his everyday clothes, old clothes and pants sprinkled with paint became part of artistic creation, and denim cloth was given a different artistic meaning.
(Later when someone says your jeans are too dirty, you can say it's Pollock wind)
In the August 1945 issue of LIFE magazine, a painter dressed in dark jeans, a Lee Loco jacket, worn-out leather boots and a black tight T-shirt, smoking a cigarette, looked like scribbles on his back. The headline of LIFE magazine was: "Jackson Pollock, is he America's greatest living artist?" ”
The greatest artist?
As a pioneer of American abstract expressionism, Pollock, who pioneered the drip painting method, impressed people with his endless and strange painting techniques - painting while smoking and drinking; using branches; dripping on the canvas; sometimes even the colors did not have to be dissolved, and he directly took the paint can and put it on...
Such a bold and rough way of painting, the painting is still a bit unknown, I don't know how to subvert the sacred appearance of the painter when the painter is quietly painting in the minds of many people at that time. (Of course, that was before the founding of the country)
In this film, Ed Harris interprets Pollock's talent, energy, grandeur, alcoholism, and temper with a mature and exquisite performance.
He personally and completely demonstrated Pollock's most enjoyable drip action painting method, which is powerful. This ritualistic way of painting is full of hypnotic religiousity, and the visual style is fanatical and full of vitality, but the uninhibited lines made of dripping and splashing also show Pollock's layered obstacles, struggling and doubtful life of the trapped beast.
After struggling in society, Pollock still chose to be pure, to choose his own belief in painting, even if the final result was to lose himself in painful self-denial and eventually lead to destruction.
His life was full of ups and downs, like an abstract painting he created, with brushstrokes, with wielding, with chaos, and when the last drop of paint fell, it all came to an abrupt end.
"It's only when I lose contact with painting that the result will be a mess. Beyond that, as long as I have a pure harmony, a relaxed accommodation, this painting comes out. ”
It is a devotion to faith.