Jackson Pollock on John Cage

Jackson Pollock paintings on John Cage music

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[cpkelley]

Cage actually didn't like Jackson Pollock.

"Now and then I would be unable to avoid the encounter; we would meet, and he would always complain that I didn't like his work enough. And I didn't."

"...he had taken five or six cans of paint, had never troubled to vary the color of the paint dripping from the can, and had more or less mechanically - with gesture, however, which he was believing in - let his paint fall out."

from Conversing with Cage, Richard Kostelanetz, page 183.

[pdclift]

Morton Feldman wrote this music, not John Cage!

[maogwanshi]

Check out the array of interesting comments. One contends that Cage

actually didn't like Pollock @cpkelley. Another maintains that this

music was actually written by Morton Feldman @pdclift. Whatever.

The piece illustrates the respective experimental styles of Cage/Pollock.

[OnASplendidRoute]

fractals-created by "the liberation" of inner.

[Jusstfnsk8]

Check out my John Cage tribute video "The Probability of Chance" by jusstfnsk8

[composerpoet]

Saw a work called Lavender Mist. Could not easily leave it; mesmerizing and lovely counterpoint as if seeing the interior of a clouds meaning or viewing the soul of J S Bach.

[bacofishtaco]

I hated Pollack! Till I saw his painting at the Philly Museum of Art. I thought "That's not art!" I was fascinated by the way the paint came off the canvas in textures et cetera. I left thinking, "I like the way those paint globs look; it's aesthetically pleasing to me! Therefore it's art!"

Beautiful. If you haven't seen any paintings in person, think twice before shooting down an artist. (FYI: I've seen Rothko in person. Still don't like him.)

[jontibloom]

Paint is not paint - it is a metaphor for liberation of that part of us which cries out for redemption .........fuck I can be another Jackson Polloct

[AndycKV]

@BodiZoltan

Because punk was a musical fad, eventually becoming a tired and empty cliche void of any integrity

[AndycKV]

@Kurtyoungblood

No they arent, subjective interpretations are not fact therefore cannot be wrong or right.

[AndycKV]

@Kurtyoungblood

The artists intention is only as valuable as the receipients interpretation. i could say all day that these paintings are representations of the effect of war upon the human mind...I might be wrong but how exactly is it any less relevant if i take something from it, than the intentions of pollock? Answer: it is not.