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.

[Paul Clift]

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.

[Jusstfnsk8]

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

[Richard Strunk]

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.

[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

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

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

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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.

[AliveGuy33]

What is the title of the track? Was it recorded by John Cage? What year?

[chei1]

idiot.