Jackson Pollack likes to Drink.
How is everyone feeling tonight? Good? Yeah? You should — any time I’m in an ultimate resource for things, I feel pretty good. Usually I’m drinking coffee before I get there, because I find resources to be sort of boring, and being full of coffee makes things pretty ultimate. So maybe the question should be whether or not you are drinking coffee.
But guess who isn’t drinking coffee. Jackson Pollack isn’t, because Jackson Pollack is dead. Besides, he was more of an alcohol guy.
But really, he was an OK guy. Some of the things he’s done includes taking an ice pick to piano keys, smashing a table full of glasses so he could make designs with his dripping blood, and pounding a table so furiously that a box of matches went into flames.
Pollack was obviously intense, and advocated that art came from within rather than without. His studio had no models or sketches, and Hans Hofmann once asked “Do you work from nature?” in which Pollack answered, “I am nature.”
Some may say he was out of control, but he was definitely mindful with his work. He once sent a message to a critic, simply saying “NO CHAOS DAMN IT”
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