On Pollock's 'Black and White' paintings:

It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country but didn't know the language, but had read enough and had a passionate interest, and was eager to live there, I wanted to live in this land; I had to live there, and master the language.


"Abstract Expressionism", Barbara Hess, New York, Abrams, 1971, p. 29


It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country but didn't know the language, but had read enough and had a passionate interest, and was eager to...

It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country but didn't know the language, but had read enough and had a passionate interest, and was eager to...

It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country but didn't know the language, but had read enough and had a passionate interest, and was eager to...

It was as if I suddenly went to a foreign country but didn't know the language, but had read enough and had a passionate interest, and was eager to...