Homage To Jackson Pollock copyright 2010 by Dave Putnam

Over the years Jackson Pollock has proven to be the hardest midcentury modern master to imitate or counterfeit. Actually it is impossible to create a Jackson Pollock counterfeit. Since he would sometimes throw paintings in a dumpster, which people would later find, a counterfeiter could claim that a fake painting was a real Jackson Pollock and potentially get away with it, except nobody can reproduce his style. All this energy at creating forgeries is misdirected. Instead let's learn from the late master and extend his school of art. In this painting I use a base of arylics and a top layer of oil paint, a technique not possible in the mid 20th century because these materials had not been invented; and a way to bring inner light up out of the canvass. I am therefore able to advance in a small way Pollock's legacy. An art expert would know instantly that my painting is not a real Jackson Pollock. Good, that is exactly the point. This painting is in Santa Fe at akhoudre@aol.com