Ep. 12 - Jackson Pollock's "Number 10, 1949" (1949)

The Lonely Palette

Arts, Podcast, Art, Museum, Painting, Modern Art, Visual Arts, Art History

4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Dust off your verbs, it's time to make sense out of chaos. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/11/30/episode-12-jackson-pollocks-10-1949-1949 Music used: Eric Dolphy, "Out To Lunch" The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" The Blue Dot Sessions, "Parade Shoes", "Inessential", "City Limits", "Lacquer Groove" Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”

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1:01.7	Well, what I see is an oblong canvas and the artist has taken paint that drips, that's liquidy
1:12.2	dripping, not thick from a palette and just swirling it and throwing
1:19.2	it and dabbing it and spotting it all over, but in a very semi-controlled way so that it has a rhythm
1:30.6	that is not accidental. I mean it's not accidental how this all worked out.
1:37.0	Black, green, white, red, bluish, greenish.
1:45.8	We kind of see like writing when the black,
1:49.0	like an O and an A and another A, W.
1:55.0	It kind of makes me feel lost in the painting.
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