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Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
(American painter, 1912-1956)
His method – peripatetic, circumambulating –
would have baffled the old masters.
They propped their canvases on easels, giving
them a standing equal to the artist.
Pollock preferred his canvasses supine
on the floor, as if to demonstrate his mastery
over them and subject to his will. In that
position, they were at his mercy, helpless
to resist the spastic gestures of his brush,
the paint he splattered on them like insults
of a deranged artist.
L’enfant terrible, he proved the age-old
controversy that art is the power of
withinness, a sudden bursting star –
“energy made visible.” Even Picasso, that
merciless butcher of the body, would agree.
In his signature canvases, we seem to be
looking into a parallel universe: as though
with a simple flick of the wrist, he hurled us
back to the beginning.
Copyright ©
Maurice Rigoler
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