Pollock - mitos

Daqui

Jackson Pollock, Mural, 1943, University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art

   

    "This seeming spontaneity has encouraged the spread of various seductive myths about the painting’s genesis. We imagine him staring at the blank canvas, complaining to friends that he was "blocked," and seeming to become both obsessed and depressed. It is said that he painted the entire canvas in one frenetic burst of energy around New Year's Day of 1944—although the painting bears the date 1943.

    Through the work of the Getty Conservation Institute and J. Paul Getty Museum in 2012–2014, we now can confirm that Pollock could not have painted the entire expanse in a single go. The approach is deliberative, and even if it is clear that there are areas where he painted wet-on-wet—that is to say, laid his paints down without allowing them to dry—the analysis of the painting also demonstrates that there were extensive passages that involved a process of painting, revision, and alteration on dry layers." Daqui