These 2 paintings were made at roughly the same time, but the Pollock is a little earlier. So De Kooning may have seen it? Tonally they are very similar. I don't like De Kooning. The pictures are muddy, messy and awkward. He has a strange attitude to women and the female form as well, verging on misogyny and at the least very angry towards them. Pollock called him a "French painter", suggesting that he covered things up with style.
Pollock is from another place altogether. When he happened upon the drip he invented a new artistic language and pushed it, abandoning the paintbrush and tapping into something raw that celebrated both sexes and the bubbling primordial soups of the cosmos. Not totally random but with mapped intelligence. "Painting is a state of being."
After Pollocks funeral, a story goes that De Kooning slurred, "I saw Jackson in his grave. It's over. I'm number one." Huh?
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