rs. Pollock believed that modern art, especially his own expressed the inner life of the artist. With this he did not just believe that the emotions of the painter at the time the painting was created were coming out, such as hate, love, anger, and fear. He believed that there were inner forces coming out of the painting expressing themselves. Jackson made himself very clear about this in an radio interview with William Wright when he started off by making the point that modern artists work from a different sourceThe thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. the modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner worldin other wordsexpressing he energy, the motion, and other inner forces.11He meant from this exert that modern artists did not just draw inner force energy from themselves, but from the world around them. They drew energy from nature and from the city, from animals and people alike.Who was Jackson Pollock? This was a greatly wide spread question. Was he a genius or was he a lunatic? Was he an artist or was he an alcoholic? Jackson Pollock was a man with many ideals that not many could understand. Maybe only he could understand the complexity of his own mind, and the ideals that he believed in. Although Pollock was a psychologically complex man he was a genius of his time. Showing us not only a new way to paint, but also a new way to think. "Jack the Dripper", one to be remembered and missed...
