Pollock's masterpieces
du 21 janvier 1982 au 10 mai 1982
Jackson PollockThis exhibition is dedicated to Jackson Pollock, hero of painting in the United States, after the Second World War. This is his first retrospective in France in 20 years.
As an introduction to the work of Jackson Pollock, paintings by Picasso, André Masson, Rothko, Motherwell... and numerous documents. Alongside the exhibition, the Center Georges Pompidou is organizing a series of conferences, as well as an important cycle of documentary films on and around Pollock.
Pollock said: “When I am in my painting, I am not conscious of what I am doing. It’s only after a sort of “acquaintance” that I see what I wanted to do. I am not afraid to make changes, to destroy the image, because a painting has its own life. I try to let it emerge. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is chaotic. Otherwise there is total harmony, easy exchange, and the picture is successful. » Quoted by Jim Palette in CNAC magazine, n°7, January-February 1982
This exhibition is produced with the assistance of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the National Gallery in Washington.
Curator: Mnam, Daniel Abadie