#pollock

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. ↗

— Lee Krasner

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And that Newman wasn't, and yet to me Pollock is just as radical and unlike Expressionism as Newman. ↗

— Donald Judd

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In the past 10 years, I've looked at life as this Pollock stuff. And now I'm almost in the post Pollock phase. ↗

— Ed Harris

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Pollock looks unusual and radical even now. ↗

— Donald Judd

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I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on! ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

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Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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