[MinuteGal]

I like a lot of modern art but cubism leaves me ice cold.

I look forward to your piece on Pollock. I saw the movie with Ed Harris. It was excellent and I urge everyone to rent it. It's not a romanticization of an artist's life like the movie depictions of Toulouse-Lautrec or other painters we've seen in the past. Very nitty-gritty, but gripping. Harris gives a great performance.

Leni

[Republicanprofessor]

One of the best parts of the movie, I think, is when he is painting the mural for Peggy Guggenheim. It really gives a good feeling for the so called 'action painting.'

I remember a funny point from the bonus part of the film. Ed Harris said that the times when he was painting like Pollock were interesting. The times he thought the painting turned out good looked poor on the film; and the times the painting was horrible was the time the filming of the painting went well. Then, if you add in the Hans Namuth filming of Pollock, and his stopping Pollock mid-stream (so to speak), you get several different levels to film and reality.

I was leary of this film at first. I thought I'd see Ed Harris, and not Pollock, through the whole thing. I hate films on art when it seems so faked. But in the first few seconds, Harris got this look on his face that was exactly like Pollock. I was sucked in immediately and impressed by the entire film.