Jackson Pollock

I have studied Jackson Pollock's paintings for years, trying to figure out their message. Photographer Hans Namuth wrote (I quote in part) ~

 

Pollock's finest paintings… reveal that his all-over line does not give rise to positive or negative areas: we are not made to feel that one part of the canvas demands to be read as figure, whether abstract or representational, against another part of the canvas read as ground. There is not inside or outside to Pollock's line or the space through which it moves…. Pollock has managed to free line not only from its function of representing objects in the world, but also from its task of describing or bounding shapes or figures, whether abstract or representational, on the surface of the canvas.

 

Hm?

 

Pollock was married to artist Lee Krasner. The couple bought a house on Long Island and Peggy Guggenheim lent them the down-payment. I met Peggy Guggenheim at her home in Venice in 1951. Which has nothing to do with my picture. I just thought I'd mention it.

 

Pollock died in 1956 in a single-car, alcohol-caused, crash. Pollock was the driver.

 

Who knows what Pollock would have created if Photoshop had been around in his day.