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James Lindley
detail of Pollock Painting—
» To become
immortal you need
to die. Preferably in public.
«
Lindley is a contemporary artist from Nottingham. His work is based
on the idea that artists are often presented as stereotypes and
are treated more and more like celebrities. With the public becoming
more interested in the life style of these celebrities, the art
work they produce becomes secondary. Lindley explores how the artist
may become famous not for the art they produce, but for the tragic
life they lead. Consequently, the more tragic the life, the more
notorious the artist and their artwork becomes.
Lindley’s work, Pollock Painting is based on the image
of the artist Jackson Pollock, and uses Hans Namuths’ famous
photographs of Pollock at work. The media’s perception of
the ‘cowboy painter’ has become more real than reality
itself, it is hyper-real. Lindley has used humour to unmask the
macho, troubled, heroic artist and unveil the genius, thus revealing
the media’s construction of Pollock the cowboy painter that
goes hand in hand with what is really important: Pollocks art.
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