[New-Poetry] Never Mind The Pollocks

[Roger Day]

I was wondering about the relationship of your work with Pollocks?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Judy Prince
<jbalizsprince at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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