[New-Poetry] Never Mind The Pollocks

[Anny Ballardini]

Hi Roger, too tempting, I wish to say just one thing.
Pollock was not out of control. I was lucky enough to watch a video shot
while he was working. His is a dance, a projection of sorts, a prayer,
complete involvement, a magician performing,

yes, Pollock is among my favorite painters, high up there on the
never-ending ladder.

And about Kline, with reference to our previous contributor, I finally got
to what he meant by *being haunted* by those powerful black strokes. I had
several pages open, and when I returned to the one with Kline's painting I
felt the 'black grip' sucking you out from the left.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com> wrote:

> The admiration for Pollock expressed in this forum is shared by me.
> However, I have .. questions. Art practice is about control: control
> of media, the reader/viewer, experience ... yet Pollock pushes those
> boundaries. Oh, he has a modicum control in that each painting is a
> selection of colours and he places them - approximately and this is
> the rub - where he wants but if Art practice is continuum of control
> to un-control, then his methods swing to the latter unlike, say,
> Rothko whose methods veer towards absolute control. Who are Pollocks
> heirs? Not many, I think. Damien Hirst for one, possibly. Any others?
>
> My tutor hated Pollock to the extent that Pollock disappeared off his
> teaching map.
>
> How does this translate into poetry? If poetic practice is about
> control, whose poetical methods resemble Pollocks? Whose poetry is the
> parallel of Pollocks paintings?
>
> Roger
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