Inevitably, fulfilling the cliche of the tortured artist, Pollock dies in a drunk driving car wreck, killing an innocent person. It tracks his success, with the help of eccentric heiress Peggy Guggenheim. The movie stars Oscar winner Ed Harris as Pollack and Marcia Gay Harden as his wife Lee Krasner (an impressive artist in her own right). Pollack was also miserable, an alcoholic, and possibly bipolar - leaving devastation in his wake. Pollock was a pioneer of the Abstract Expressionist movement, inventing the “drip” method of abstraction in a “Eureka” moment. They drank and raged as much as they painted. Jackson Pollock was the bad boy of the postwar New York art world, a testosterone-fueled society of brash artists. This may be the most well known movie for art lovers on the planet. Jackson Pollock, Alchemy, 1947 - in the Guggenheim Museum in Venice 2. The film doesn’t dwell much on the darker side of this reality - that she was a narcissist (like so many artists), a hypochondriac, and a drug addict. Frida had polio as a child and, at 19, was hit by a bus shattering her spring and pelvis, leaving her in lifelong pain. The movie mostly hews to the view of Frida as a feminist icon who overcame a disability to become a great painter. When Rivera philandered, Frida followed suit. You can see her earliest works and inspirations. Happily, for art lovers, Kahlo’s unflinching and highly relatable paintings are woven into the plot and given top billing.
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