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Pollock is a 2000 biographical film which tells the life story of American painter Jackson Pollock. It stars Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Robert Knott, Bud Cort, Molly Regan and Sada Thompson, and was directed by Harris.
Ed Harris received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Pollock. Marcia Gay Harden won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Lee Krasner, Pollock's wife. The film was a long-term personal project for Harris based on his previous reading of Pollock's biography.
The film begins showing the abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) autographing illustrations in a copy of Life magazine for a woman at an art exhibit in 1950 — the exhibit which made him famous.
The film flashes back to nine years earlier (1941). At this time Jackson is usually drunk and makes a living by exhibiting a painting in occasional group art shows. He is living with his brother Sande (and Sande's wife) in a tiny New York apartment. Sande's wife tells him that they are having a baby, hinting to Jackson that he should move out. Soon afterward, Jackson meets artist Lee Krasner, who takes an interest in him. Later, at dinner, he learns that his brother is moving to Connecticut to take a job building army gliders to avoid a rumored draft of married men not involved in war production. (Sande's wife refers to Jackson's 4F Selective Service status, which exempts Jackson from the draft.) Unable to handle conflicting feelings, Jackson goes on a drinking binge and Lee and Sande find him in a disheveled state. Lee learns from Sande that Jackson is diagnosed as "clinically neurotic" (he was actually bipolar); still, Lee takes him home and decides to be his manager.
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, abstract-painting, adultery, alcohol, alcoholism, art, art-critic, art-show, artist
Jackson Pollock: Fuck Picasso.
Lee Krasner: Jackson Pollock, I'm Lee Krasner. I thought I knew all the outstanding artists in New York and I don't know Jackson Pollock.
Tony Smith: What do you think of Picasso?::Jackson Pollock: Yeah, he has been.::Tony Smith: DeKooning?::Jackson Pollock: He's alright, he's learning.
Peggy Guggenheim: I have just climbed up and down five flights of stairs. I'm Peggy Guggenheim...::Lee Krasner: We're sorry.::Peggy Guggenheim: [to Pollock] My God and you're drunk.::Jackson Pollock: No.::Lee Krasner: No.
Clem Greenberg: What you're doing is the most original and vigorous art in the country.::Jackson Pollock: We're broke!::Clem Greenberg: Yeah, keep at it.::Jackson Pollock: Keeping at it... don't tell me to keep at it!
Lee Krasner: [seeing his breakthrough painting] You've done it, Pollock. You've cracked it wide open.
Peggy Guggenheim: [before love making] I think you don't realize how hard I worked to get people interested in your work.
Jackson Pollock: [referring to Lee] I'm dead without her.::Ruth Kligman: But I'm the one who loves you, Jackson.
Jackson Pollock: If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.
interviewer: How do you respond to some of your critics? They have said a mop of tangled hair, a child's contour map of the battle of Gettysburg, cathartic disintegration, degenerate. What do you say to that?::Jackson Pollock: You forgot baked macaroni.
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Trecho do filme "Pollock" (2000), dirigido e protagonizado por Ed Harris, com música do compositor Jeff Beal. A atuação representa o pintor expressionista norte-americano Paul Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) compondo um mural. O professor de composição musical Jorge Meletti mostrou em aula (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) como a textura, orquestração e gestos musicais estão aqui em estreita relação com as ações físicas do artista, ilustrando a técnica do mickeymousing, em que a música "fala" o que os gestos dizem (às vezes nos mínimos detalhes, às vezes somente no sentido geral da cena). Neste trecho, o compositor cria conexões entre os timbres dos instrumentos e as cores de tinta. Ex: As cordas agudas e as primeiras pinceladas (0:14), o oboé e a cor cinza (0:50); as melodias paralelas em 0:...
Jackson Pollock, played by Ed Harris, is seen hauling a crate of beer, and then falling off his bike, while riding on the streets of Springs, East Hampton, Long Island. This scene was shot on Old Stone Highway, right before the intersection with Springs-Fireplace Road.
Jackson Pollock discovers drip painting in Ed Harris' Pollock (2000).
"Pollock" è un film del 2000, prodotto, diretto e interpretato da Ed Harris; si tratta della sua prima opera da regista. Il soggetto è tratto dal volume "Pollock: an American Saga" (1989) di Steven Neifeh e Gregory White Smith. Il film di Ed Harris è una delle più recenti "biopic" sull'arte e tra le migliori accolte dalla critica. Il pittore Jackson Pollock dipingeva facendo colare dall'alto vernici e colori su supporti di grandi dimensioni (dripping), creando texture di colori diversi. Egli abolì il quadro col cavalletto poiché diceva che, stendendo la tela a terra, gli veniva più agevole girarvi intorno e si sentiva più parte integrante del quadro. Ed Harris covava il progetto di un film su Pollock da diversi anni, infatti la passione per l'artista deriva da un libro sul pittore regala...
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.