Confucius is considered the greatest sage of traditional China. When he purportedly said, “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop,” he was not talking about breakfast.
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| Chinese Breakfast |
Zero was invented in India when Hindu philosophers made great efforts to empty their minds. They came up with nothing.
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| Hindu Sanyasi |
During the late forties, a struggling American artist refurbishing his New York City apartment spilled yellow paint on a large canvas he had laid out on the floor—liking what he saw, he decided to do it again, this time with red paint. Thus was born the legend of Jackson Pollock, master of Abstract Expressionism.
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| Number 16 (1949) by Jackson Pollock |
In 1947 Jackson Pollock arrived at a new mode of working that brought him international fame. His method consisted of flinging and dripping thinned enamel paint onto an unstretched canvas laid on the floor of his studio. This direct, physical engagement with his materials welcomed gravity, velocity, and improvisation into the artistic process, and allowed line and color to stand alone, functioning entirely independently of form. His works, which came to be known as “drip paintings,” present less a picture than a record of the fluid properties of paint itself. Describing his action-based process, Pollock says, “When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. ...I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.” [1]
ReplyDelete[1] Pollock, Jackson. “My Painting,” Possibilities no. 1 (Winter, 1947–48); quoted in The New American Painting: As Shown in Eight European Countries, 1958–1959 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959):64.
https://www.moma.org/artists/4675
—Annie Ochmanek, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, “Jackson Pollock: American, 1912–1956,” MoMA, 2016
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Photo/Image Credits
ReplyDelete“Chinese Breakfast” link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_breakfast_2009.JPG
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“Hindu Sanyasi” link:
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Number 16 (1949) by Jackson Pollock posted here according to principles of fair use.
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Sources – original publications:
ReplyDelete“Ancient History,” Cacti Fur (September 4, 2019)
“Medieval History,” The Penmen Review (December 16, 2019)
“Modern History,” Poetica Review, Issue 9 (Spring 2021)
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