[New-Poetry] Bob Grumman

[Anny Ballardini]

It is easy to touch people at an emotional level. I think they wanted to
portray Pollock a little too much like Van Gogh. You should read, if you are
able [not because I doubt your capacities but because I did not manage to go
through the book page after page - but skipped and went back several times]
Van Gogh's correspondence to his brother Theo. At least with Van Gogh we
have his own words. In this movie we witness a version of Pollock's life as
seen by others who were all involved in selling his paintings.
Whatever the truth, the movie is tragic.
Another similar character the American society produced was F. Scott
Fitzgerald. Both were given a success they were not able to deal with. And
became victims of their own creature.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Judy Prince
<jbalizsprince at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Agreed [about the film, at least], Anny.
> Ed Harris's father had suggested that his son do the film because of the
> close physical resemblance he saw of Ed to Pollock.  And what a performance
> he gave of the self-agonising artist's personal and professional 'demons' in
> all their unforgiving intensity.
> I've always felt that Pollock's art works were stunning decorative pieces,
> for which there need be no apologies, but he was continually tortured by the
> thought that his work might *only* be 'like wallpaper'.
>
> We talked extensively about him on this list back in June, I believe, and I
> thank you now for mentioning the film and its force.  It was---incredible
> for a film---faithful to what is known about the facts of his life, as well
> as it profoundly dramatised his emotional responses to a life so thickly
> constrained by self-doubt.  All of that said, the movie amazingly managed, s
> well, to involve us in his artistic process.  What a film!
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> 2008/12/10 Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
>
>> Am I reading right or am I still under the spell of Pollock by Ed Harris I
>> just watched?
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