[New-Poetry] Never Mind The Pollocks

[Judy Prince]

You're asking all the delicious questions, R'Owl, and you've the talent,
background, and perseverance to get a spread of answers.  How about xpanding
your field of artists unlimitedly, both the painters and the poets?
On NP, am loving the chat about Franz Kline, for example, looking at the
sublim[e]inal samenesses in old Chinese calligraphy, FK's works, and my
recent attempts at illustrating using fat black marker pens [as a quick way
to approximate some of the look of woodcuts]---and most excitingly to note
those techniques' and effects' similarities in the poems of Peter
Ciccariello and my latest ones.

What say you about your works, fine art and poetic, and their possible
relationships with others'?

Best,

joodles

2008/11/3 Roger Day <rog3r.day at gmail.com>

> 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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