Showing posts with label Jackson Pollock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackson Pollock. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The Met - Jackson Pollock - New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)
Monday, February 21, 2011
Tesco Blue - Truro / Cornwall (Sun 06 Sep 2009)
I like the abstract and it would come as no surprise that I love Jackson Pollock's painting, Blue Poles which is owned by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra (more here).
I remember as a kid, the 1973 controversy of Gough Whitlam's (the then Prime Minister of Australia) support of the $1.3 million purchase of a painting, that some said only took a couple of hours to drip, not brush. Also remember seeing the movie, Pollock when it was released in 2000.
When I am travelling, often look for abstract photos. This is one that I took on the day we arrived by train in Truro (on the Cornwall Coast), from London. It had been painted on the wall of the local Tesco that sided a path along the river we had just walked.
Like Bloody Gum, the photo Tesco Blue is a tribute to Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam (my Grandmother and Father would have been horrified to read my admission) and the amazingly fabulous Blue Poles.
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