CRITIQUE – In Paris, the Picasso Museum offers a fascinating insight into the young years of the master of American gestural art. After the “Guernica” exhibition at MoMA in 1939, the Minotaur played the role of demiurge.
Jackson Pollock is an American legend, between abstract expressionism and “action painting” (or gestural abstraction), movements which raised America to the pantheon of post-war art. The American actor Ed Harris played him as a wild beast dancing around his canvases placed on the floor of his barn to launch his famous “drippings”, using the images of Jackson Pollock 51 by Hans Namuth (1951) in his tribute film Pollock in 2000. The beautiful Marcia Gay Harden played her companion Lee Krasner, a painter in the shadows, circumspect manager of an impossible being, driven by his passion and devoured by alcoholism.
Today he is the king of American museums and the art market. Her Number 17A1948, dark cosmos painted a year after the first “drippings”, sold for 200 million dollars in private sale in 2015. Its Number 5 with yellow and red lightning, 1948, had reached 140 million dollars at
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