Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock is the most representative artist of the painting discipline known as Abstract Expressionism. He was the first american avant-garde artist with the same consideration of the critics as the contemporary great masters of Europe. This documentary shows a profile of the painter through the testimonies of the people who knew him and give us real images of his life and Pollock's own works.

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)was a mid-western who got famous in New York and was considered as a model for his contemporaries. He died in a car accident when he was driving completely drunk, but as a character in this documentary says, this fact could be the ending of a long suicide because Pollock was a depressive alcoholic man.

Of course, you are quite free to disagree with me on this point - But - (Personally speaking) I think that Jackson Pollock (as an artist) was an utter fraud and I cannot appreciate his work at all.

In this brief bio-documentary you can clearly see by the footage of Pollock "dripping & splashing" on a canvas that he wasn't putting any thought into what the hell he was doing.

In fact, he looked thoroughly bored from my perspective on things.

Anyway - Not only does this 52-minute "ArtHaus" presentation look at Pollock's artistic output during his rather short lifetime - But (surprisingly enough), it also points out that he was a miserable drunkard with an ugly & explosive personality, as well.

*Note* - In 1956 - Jackson Pollock (44 at the time) was killed, as a passenger, in a car crash.