p. 17
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It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express his age, the airplane the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of Renaissance or of any past culture. Each age finds its own technique...
— Jackson Pollock
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Source: Wikiquote: "Jackson Pollock" (Quotes: sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes of Jackson Pollock, 1950s, Interview by William Wright (Summer 1950): Quotes of Pollock, from an interview by William Wright, Summer 1950 (for broadcasting, but never used); as quoted in Clifford Ross (ed) Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, New York: Abrahams Publishers (1990))
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About Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter active in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
About Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter active in the Abstract Expressionist movement.
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