Before becoming this modern art icon immortalized by the photographs and films of Hans Namuth, which show him projecting streams of synthetic paint onto a giant canvas placed on the ground, Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) initially followed a path that led him to take a close interest in the French and Mexican avant-gardes.
It is to this first Pollock that the Picasso museum is devoting its new exhibition, precisely because the author of Guernica was one of Jackson Pollock’s first emotions. Dubbed by the dealer Peggy Guggenheim and the critic Clement Greenberg, closely followed by the political power which wanted to make him un symbole de l’American way of lifethe painter actually had a tortured life, which makes him today a figure as adored as he is controversial.
1. He dreamed of being a sculptor
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