{"id":3355,"date":"2014-07-14T12:21:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T19:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:33:57","slug":"an-early-pollock-splashes-an-ocean-front-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/2014\/07\/14\/an-early-pollock-splashes-an-ocean-front-home\/","title":{"rendered":"An Early Pollock Splashes an Ocean-front Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got a call from a friend who had a friend who needed a painting. It had to be just the right painting to finish out a years-long home remodel, situated on a Southern California bluff over the ocean named for its peace, the\u00a0Pacific<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Hammond-exterior\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The approach from the street reflects and announces the symmetry of the home, the understated elegance, the attention to line and pattern and plane. Even the wide stone pavers are perfectly level with no off-throwing tilt for drainage (the drainage is allowed for\u00a0by small spaces between the stone and then handled subterraneously).<\/p>\n

\"Hammond-interior\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I didn’t even photograph the opposite wall, which is all glass, overlooking the ocean. This view, however, gives an idea of the continued sense of space, the light, and highly subdued, effective, and even rigid color scheme. A designer’s masterpiece.<\/p>\n

\"Fireplace\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One area, however, was not yet complete:\u00a0a rolling panel above\u00a0the fireplace that hides the flat screen TV. The designer had suggestions\u00a0(more monochrome) but the lady of the house had other ideas.<\/p>\n

\"Pollock-Copy-650\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s when she came across an Internet rendition of an early Jackson Pollock and thought, “That would be the perfect solution.” And that’s when I came in.<\/p>\n

It’s my painting, shown here. It’s not my style at all, you’ll say. No, it’s a copy. And, but for some proportional changes, it’s a faithful\u00a0copy. You’ll also say it’s not even Jackson Pollock’s style. But actually it is, or was, before he discovered his dripping and splashing approach that made him famous.<\/p>\n

\"Pollock-w-Ink-Print\"<\/a><\/p>\n

While Pollock might have been free spirited with his line and color and brushwork, my approach was much more careful. I was copying. But the copy still needed a fidelity to the original exuberance, attention to\u00a0color, the whimsy of shape. With care for\u00a0perfect dimension and clean edges to match the home’s\u00a0severity of line, there’s an\u00a0otherwise wild and almost childish expression about it all. And it’s the only color in the house!<\/p>\n

\"Pollock-with-owner\"<\/a><\/p>\n

People are agreeing, the painting adds to the overall\u00a0soul. Here’s the lady of the house, the one with the brainchild, now absolutely loving the result.<\/p>\n

It was an unusual project, a\u00a0wild idea, but it came off. For me, the greatest part\u00a0was to share the joy of the new owners as this last touch completed their beautiful space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an unusual commission, a copy of a very “modern” painting, for a very, very modern house. An instance where courage and aesthetics meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9946,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/egallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}