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great deal of positive press has begun to emerge, including a feature
article last summer by Walter Robinson, editor of artnet.com the
world's most prestigious art web site.
"Pollock Squared" as a work in progress feature film was selected as the kick off solo
opener on May 2, for the Mayfair Film Festival 2003, held in the
theater of the Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania,
May 2-4, 2003.
Bob Metzger director Emeritus of the Reading Public Museum,
afterwards delivered a historical analysis of how "Pollock Squared"
has become one of only four major American artist generated
feature films (Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Robert Longo, being
the three others, and where only Schnabel's "Basquiat" film was about
another artist).
Mr. Metzger also noted that "Pollock Squared" has become a
significant American first by being uniquely conceived as a response
to another American film about an artist, Ed Harris's Pollock film.
He also remarked, having known the real Lee Krasner quite well,
that our star Lisa Renko, playing Lee Krasner, was far more
authentic and also convincing as a painter than realized in the
Harris version.
Bill stated the film in no way diminishes Lee Krasner's creative
importance, indeed quite the opposite, creating a real sense of
balance with Jackson.
Bill said that Thomas Hart Benton was not mentioned in the
Harris version despite Pollock's and Benton's continuing friendship &
his crucial influence on Pollock as mentioned to Bill by Will Barnet
& others.
Bill has made several other shorter art related films, won the top
NYC cable award for a multimedia piece on Picasso, called "Picaaso
& the Weeping Women" with the real Picasso paintings at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, did another on Egon Schiele, another
on Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Georgia O'Keeffe, a spiritualized
fully costumed drama with look-a-like actors called "Eternal Light,"
done in 1994 in many locations, etc.
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