{"id":2304,"date":"2009-01-28T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2016-07-04T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:14:26","slug":"my-kid-could-do-thatif-my-kid-was-born-on-this-date-in-1912-made-a-complete-break-with-the-history-of-figurative-painting-became-a-pillar-in-the-burgeoning-abstract-expressionism-movement-and-ig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"My Kid Could Do That…If My Kid Was Born on this Date in 1912, Made a Complete Break with the History of Figurative Painting, Became a Pillar in the Burgeoning Abstract Expressionism Movement, and Ignored Plebes Who Walked By, Sneering, “My Kid Could Do That.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jackson<\/a>
\nJackson Pollock. <\/em>Full Fathom Five. 1947. Oil on canvas with nails, tacks, buttons, key, coins, cigarettes, matches, etc., 50 7\/8 x 30 1\/8″ (129.2 x 76.5 cm). Gift of Peggy Guggenheim.
\n From the collection of the Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York City<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Jackson<\/a>I can’t remember the first time that I saw a picture by Jackson Pollock, right. Since I was born fewer than ten years after his death in 1956, his work seems like it was always around, if only, and mostly, as a representation of how debased “art” had become, that being an extension of what common folk accepted as modern society’s total insanity.<\/p>\n

That said, I also can’t recall a time that I didn’t passionately love his paintings. I had to grow into Motherwell and Rothko, but Pollock always spoke to me, even when very young. Perhaps it was those wildly dripped lines which, even to a child, suggest rampant energy, and clearly convey that you are not looking at a pastural field. There seemed something bad<\/em> about the work, as though the artist was misbehaving. The snob’s retort\u2014”My kid could do that”\u2014was meant as a putdown. But, as was often the case, those attempting to injure the artist’s reputation often found themselves unintentionally giving up mad props. “There was a reviewer a while back” Pollock once said, “who wrote that my pictures didn’t have any beginning or any end. He didn’t mean it as a compliment, but it was.” As always, they look, but do not see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackson Pollock. Full Fathom Five. 1947. Oil on canvas with nails, tacks, buttons, key, coins, cigarettes, matches, etc., 50 7\/8 x 30 1\/8″ (129.2 x 76.5 cm). Gift of Peggy Guggenheim. From the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City I can’t remember the first time that I saw a picture by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}