Her woven tracery pops off the canvas, less like Pollock than Janet Sobel, who has claims both to
inventing drip painting and to outsider art.
Not exact matches
Unlike the kind of action that is so identifiable in Abstract Expressionist
painting, which entails the different layers in the case of Pollock's
drip paintings, scraping and repainting in the case of de Kooning, you sort of
invented your own kind of action
painting, in a way.
I believe that another woman, Janet Sobel,
invented the relationship of
drip painting to intimacy that I have found so important.
As the artist himself has said, «You can't
invent a
painting from scratch; you are working with an entire tradition... The pictorial language of the 20th century, from Kurt Schwitters's collages to Jackson Pollock's
drip paintings, makes up a range of possibilities that I utilise in order to create a transhistorical figurative
painting — a
painting of the image as such, of representation» (A. Ghenie, quoted in «Adrian Ghenie in Conversation with Magda Radu,» Adrian Ghenie: Darwin's Room, exh.