REALISM THROUGH THE POST MODERN ERA

Realism through the Post Modern Era

Realism through the Post Modern Era

The life and work of Jackson Pollock have been chosen to illustrate realism. Pollock was one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century. He also was a narcissistically vulnerable individual. As will be demonstrated, evidence exists for significant self-pathology in Pollock. The probable product of sublimated pathological narcissism, Pollock's creativity seemed to depend on the development of certain key relationships that enabled his traumatized self to be structured sufficiently for creativity to take place (Naifeh, and Smith, 1989). In the absence of ...