Jackson Pollock Part One: The Myth of the Modern Artist

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In 1949, Life magazine asked: “Is Jackson Pollock, the greatest American Painter. He is a figure that is polarising among art aficionados. Some see him as a fraud, others as a genius.

In Part One of my film I look at how, post World War Two, the art scene shifted from Paris to New York. How America was searching for "The Great American painter", and why he is so loved and hated at the same time. I look at just what Abstract Expressionism means, how we can "read it", and I look at the myths surrounding Pollock and modern art itself. I also look at his influences ranging from Mexican sand Painting, to the Regionalist art movement, to Picasso and the modernists.

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CREDITS
Script co-written by Laura Beardsell-Moore
Opening Animation and Title Sequence by Brian Adsit (instagram https://instagram.com/brian_vfx?utm_m... and Behance www.behance.com/badsit88)
Recording by Robert Lewis

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MUSIC
Dizzy Gillespie's "Things to come" performed by the North Carolina Jazz Ensemble

BOOKS
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling
Jackson Pollock by Deborah Solomon
Jackson Pollock by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

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