How Jackson Pollock's "Blue Poles" changed the face of art | American Masters

[@egx161]

Thank goodness for PBS. American Masters, The American Experience etc. life just wouldn’t be the same.

[@PattyASMRPatterns]

Blue Poles is so amazing - as is all of Jackson Pollock's work. That museum was ahead of its time! Bravo on a purchase Australia will never forget OR regret!

[@teejaydoyle2810]

Just wait until you find out about Polluck's connection to the CIA. 🤣

[@toddaulner5393]

Blue ploes worth how much today? Maybe 125 million?

[@PattyASMRPatterns]

@@toddaulner5393 Probably four times that.

[@kenneththompson8933]

I was lucky enough to see Blue Poles at a Tate Modern London Jackson Pollock Retrospective Show. I didn't realise how HUGE this painting is. It's really massive in length & depth

[@cheri238]

Jackson Pollack was an extraordinary artist. With reverence for this short documentary. I understood his artwork by observing some of his art up close and the history of his journey in life. 🙏❤🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@agabrielhegartygaby9203]

TO WHOEVER MADE THIS VIDEO: THANK YOU FOR THE INSPIRATION

[@joshuacross1216]

Inspiration? 🤣

[@neilrafferty2097]

Make sense of his work and you're either a genius or a madman.

[@toddaulner5393]

I have made a small painting in his style. It looked very similar but was missing the broad strokes. So... NO I did not accomplish it.

[@neilrafferty2097]

@@toddaulner5393 Is there any structure or meaning to his work?

[@carolynmullet1726]

Excellent!!!

[@oldsmobilethompson1658]

Great video

[@CharlesPerrett-q3x]

Abstract art of that quality in your flat.. to live with such great work .. those Rothkos Are wonderful.. I took my 15 year old lad to a Pollock exhibition at the The Tate. He totally got it... much later We went to see Anselm Keifer At The White Cube .

[@CharlesPerrett-q3x]

He could see the connection between them the way Art grows and interacts

[@Johnconno]

People like you are what make art galleries unbearable.

[@Rhezoloution]

I like Pollack but worth remembering that his drinking murdered an innocent 22 year old in that car that killed him also. She doesnt get remembered.

[@odetteuys1111]

Bowie once described the punk movement as "a necessary enema". Pollock was the anarchist, what punk did for music he did for art.

[@AndreasAndersson-ve4jx]

Museums/Galleries should be built like Rothkos apartment. It looked great there, better than in the museem. Mostly art looks less impressive in those big spaces with indirect light. Clearly, it is the cultural gravitas of the original objects themselves, that renders the high value. If i could afford it & the provenance could be trusted, i would have loved to own an original Warhol. Not as art, but because the object was created by a very cool dude.. In my hometown, Gothenburg, there were lots of travelling auction companies (circuses?), always with "Warhols" for sale. I did not beleive that for a moment.... But If i had wanted it just for decoration (which also is cool), those Warhols would have been OK too... I suppose they were screenprinted exactly like the originals, and would have given given the same impression.

[@anthonyventimiglia4157]

I'm in the camp where I think Australia got a steal.

[@joshuacross1216]

Apparently the people making comments and the producers of this video dont have access to the internet. Pollack was/is a product of the CIA and pentagon. His wife had the talent

[@toddaulner5393]

Warhol was far more of a joke than nearly any other famous artist. Should have been sued to oblivion!

[@lindabay1491]

The old masters would have thought he was a crazy person with zero talent.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

It's irrelevant what they would have thought. They lived in their age, not ours. Pollock created as a person living in his time and place, creating from what was in his mind. The Old Masters would have probably thought Dali, Van Gogh, Surrealism, Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Basquiat, and 1000 other things crazy. So what?

[@lindabay1491]

@@littleghostfilms3012 All of those artists would never come close in talent to the great masters.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

@@lindabay1491 Again, they lived centuries ago when art depicted things in a very different way. It's not a competition between the style of their time and the style of the 20th century.

[@MsTaylorsArt]

Jackson Pollock didn't break the ice. He was inspired by people like Janet Sobel who used the dripping technique before him. They broke the ice. People really need to research and stop lying.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

He took an idea and went to 11 with it. Nothing wrong with that. People not knowing about Sobel is the fault of the critics at the time, i.e. Greenberg, who marginalized her as a "primitive" painter.

[@MsTaylorsArt]

@@littleghostfilms3012 I couldn't agree more but I'd also add to that as the fault of those in the art world today who claim that he created the idea. The fact is, he did just as you said he took an idea and went with it. Just as you said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Those who actually gave him that idea in my opinion broke the ice though. Jackson Pollock just continued to create it. The media and Jackson Pollock himself simply ignored the truth by not noting it.

[@MikeOxwollen]

Interesting context! Now I will go learn more.

[@littleghostfilms3012]

@@MsTaylorsArt Actually Pollock did credit Sobel with influencing him, it was Greenberg and other critics who failed as writers to include that.

[@MsTaylorsArt]

@@littleghostfilms3012 If he did that 100% he would have publicly noted that he infact did NOT break the ice with that idea in every interview he was ever in talking about it. It's understood that public figures have little control over what is written or said about them. Still, the fact is that if that were noted by Pollock to the degree of some understanding it, it would be known today that a female came up with that idea. That was not something that the public at that time would have liked to create awareness of. The public struggles with that to a degree even today and pays men more in many cases. Although, he may have noted it for all I know, he certainly did not make it known that he did not come up with that idea. He also was hugely mentally ill though so in my opinion he did what he was capable of. The publics discrimination did the rest. In my opinion he could have created alot of awareness for female rights but he didn't. Writers, etc. can only be blamed to a degree. That responsibility is everyones but like I said everyone was not for womens rights.

[@fredkeebler7820]

A classic example of "The Emperor's Clothes." Pollack's looks like industrial waste! Anyone that has been involved in the waste of society will understand what I am talking about. I am not alone, just watch the movie "Contraband" starting Mark Wahlberg.

[@bladerunner8832]

I never saw what the big deal was with Andy Warhol.

[@sythe77]

And the scam continues.

[@toddaulner5393]

You or nobody you know could do it.

[@TheGeosto]

I love Pollock. But he is a bit overrated.

[@BardMusicArt]

I think your a bit overrated. What have you done in the arts?

[@jimroth2473]

Nope

[@Celeste0415]

You can convince yourself that it’s this and that and avant- guard but it’s still crap. If I could do it and I have it’s not worth shit. These folks are bat shit crazy

[@robertspies4695]

You convinced yourself that you could but you could not whether you like the painting or not.