Design: Daub, Splatter, Drip and Dribble Jackson Pollock's Action Paintings Had an Electrifying Effect on Post-War Designers. Will the Arrival This Month of a Major New Exhibition at London's Tate Gallery Cause Similar Creative Shock Waves Second Time around? by Lesley Jackson

Jackson, Lesley, The Independent (London, England)

When Sir Leigh Ashton, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, was confronted by his first Jackson Pollock painting in 1948, his reaction was: "It would make a most enchanting silk." Designers themselves were equally quick to appreciate the decorative potential of action painting, and initially it was the design fraternity rather than the art world which responded most positively to what Alexander Eliot dismissed in Time magazine as "the shlosh-and-spatter school of post-war art".

In his landmark article on Pollock published in Life magazine on 8 August 1949, Arnold Newman wrote: "Recently, a formidably highbrow New York critic hailed the brood- ing, …

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Publication information: Article title: Design: Daub, Splatter, Drip and Dribble Jackson Pollock's Action Paintings Had an Electrifying Effect on Post-War Designers. Will the Arrival This Month of a Major New Exhibition at London's Tate Gallery Cause Similar Creative Shock Waves Second Time around? by Lesley Jackson. Contributors: Jackson, Lesley - Author. Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England). Publication date: March 6, 1999. Page number: 12. © 2009 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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