3/29/2024 0 Comments Charles barkley daughter tumblr![]() ![]() Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, oil on canvas, 1948Īside from their different approaches to painting, Benton’s distinctive painterly style made a lasting impression on the Pollock brothers. Thomas Hart Benton did not hold abstract art in high regard - he dismissed it as “Parisian aesthetics” and “an academic world of empty patterns.” By calling abstract art “academic”, Benton also expressed how abstraction was not suitable to depict the every-day, the mundane and the struggles of the working class. It is fascinating to look at these three paintings while keeping in mind how the Pollock brothers started to veer toward abstraction in the following years and decades. Jackson Pollock, Going West, oil on canvas, 1934-35Ĭharles Pollock, Look Down That Road, oil on canvas, 1942 Thomas Hart Benton, Going Home, oil on panel, 1934 The earlier works by the Pollock brothers are in line with Benton’s aesthetic and subjects: depictions of the rural American Midwest (to some extent the South) and its people, the aftereffects of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl drought of the early 1930s, and the lasting impact these events had on people who became migrant workers in order to survive. In 1930 Charles convinced Jackson Pollock to move to New York City where both brothers studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Jackson and Charles Pollock in New York City, 1930 You know Jackson Pollock - but have you heard of Charles Pollock? I have to admit that I had never come across any work by Jackson Pollock’s older brother Charles until I saw Charles Pollock: A Retrospective at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy.
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