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Out of the blue (Jackson Pollock & Gough Whitlam)

from Stalin's Piano by Sonya Lifschitz & Robert Davidson

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Jackson Pollock interviewed by William Wright, summer 1950
Gough Whitlam, 21 July 1999, National Gallery of Australia
The piano music enhances perception of the melody in their voices.

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Wright: Well, Mr. Pollock, can you tell us how modern art came into being?
Pollock: It didn’t jump out of the blue, it’s a part of a long tradition dating back with Cezanne, up through the Cubists, the post-Cubists, to the painting being done today.
Wright: Then, it’s definitely a product of evolution?
Pollock: Yes.
Wright: Shall we go back to this method question that so many people today think is important? Can you tell us how you developed your method of painting, and why you paint as you do?
Pollock: Method is a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques of painting, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don’t think there’s anything very different about it. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world – in other words – expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Wright: Would it be possible to say that the classical artist expressed his world by representing the objects, whereas the modern artist expresses his world by representing the effect the objects have upon him}
Pollock: Yes, the modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Gough Whitlam: Blue Poles. The purchase was confirmed in The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Telegraph on the 23rd of September '73. The next day the Sun ran the story under the heading '$1.3 Million For Dribs and Drabs'. 'Barefoot Drunks Painted Our $1 Million Masterpiece’.
People refer to Blue Poles not disparagingly now - never! I’m not one to say “I told you so”, but…

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from Stalin's Piano, released May 17, 2019
Robert Davidson, composer, engineer, editor
Sonya Lifschitz, pianist

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Sonya Lifschitz & Robert Davidson Brisbane, Australia

Sonya Lifschitz' bold adventurousness & unparalleled musicianship, described as “a life force of extraordinary density and capacity” see her active as soloist, collaborator, artistic director, educator, radio personality and arts advocate.

Robert Davidson has been making music from language since childhood. With his ensemble Topology he explores a wide range of cross-genre collaboration.
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