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ROBERT POLLOCK LIST OF WORKS Recent works composed on Maui, Hawai’i (1998-present): Piano Synergy #7- in memoriam to victimes of covid-19 (2020 - 6') Egrets for piano (2020- 8') Ten Flowers for piano with paintings by Esther Jongeneelen-Pollock (2020 - 10') Burlesque for tenor banjo and piano (2020 - 5') Word of the Wind for piano trio (2020 -5')
- Beginnings of Abstract Expressionism
- Abstract Expressionism: Concepts, Styles, and Trends
- Later Developments - After Abstract Expressionism
It is one of the many paradoxes of Abstract Expressionism that the roots of the movement lay in the figurative painting of the 1930s. Almost all the artists who would later become abstract painters in New York in the 1940s and 1950s were stamped by the experience of the Great Depression, and they came to maturity whilst painting in styles influence...
Building upon Surrealism
Surrealism was an original influence on the themes and concepts of the Abstract Expressionists. Although the American painters were uneasy with the overt Freudian symbolism of the European movement, they were still inspired by its interests in the unconscious, as well as its strain of primitivism and preoccupation with mythology. Many were particularly interested in the ideas of the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who believed that elements of a collective unconscious had been handed down throu...
Color Field Painting
The emerging Abstract Expressionist artists had an impetus to move away from the biomorphicSurrealism of Miró and Picasso, and toward an increasingly reductive style that emphasized a more personal expression. Still, Rothko, and Newman are typical of this progression as they ventured into the world of color as expressive, emotional object in its own right. Still created canvases marked by bold colors that were torn up and ruptured by other juxtaposing textures and forms, angular, uneven and v...
Action Painting
Greenberg also championed Pollock's "drip" paintings in a formalist regard (as an exciting and vast new way to look at color splotches and spontaneous paint forms) although the work was most known for catapulting Abstract Expressionism's other main style - that of action painting. Harold Rosenberg, another important critic of the time, explained in a 1952 article for ART News entitled "The American Action Painters": "At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after...
By the mid 1950s the style had also run its course in other ways. The movement's greatest achievements were often built on a conflict between chaos and control. which could only be played out in so many ways. Some artists, such as Newman and Rothko, had evolved a style so reductive that there was little room for development - and to change course w...
Jul 13, 2024 · Abstract Expressionism, broad movement in American painting that began in the late 1940s and became a dominant trend in Western painting during the 1950s. The most prominent American Abstract Expressionist painters were Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Mark Rothko.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pollock was inspired by Jacques Monod’s NY Guild of Composers. For almost twenty years, Pollock ran the Composers Guild of New Jersey (CGNJ), building audiences for the music of living NJ composers, and NJ composers of historical interest, like Antheil & Sessions.
As pianist he has premiered more than 100 compositions by composers from around the world. He has recorded works by George Walker, Rashid Kalimullin, Stephen Peles, Dina Koston, Sarn Oliver, Edward T. Cone, and others.
medium from Robert Pollock on Vimeo. "Contrast" - painting by TOMAS BELSKY Vox n Plux - (l to r) Elizabeth Farnum, soprano, William Anderson, and Oren Fader - rehearse my "Vulture", based on the poem by California poet, Robinson Jeffers, November 7, 2013.
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Robert Pollock received a B. A. in Music from Swarthmore College, and M.F.A. in Musical Composition from Princeton University. He is founder and director emeritus of the Composers Guild of New Jersey, and now a full time resident of Maui.
