This grid piece, along with Deconstruction in Dayglo, focuses on artists as iconic figures. Their works hang in museums and also decorate the walls of popular culture from wallpaper, handbags to posters and postcards. Both pieces are organized in the anti-narrative grid form.
Anxiety of Influence is a phrase coined by Anthony Bloom. "Bloom's central thesis is that poets are hindered in their creative process by the ambiguous relationship they necessarily maintained with precursor poets. While admitting the influence of extraliterary experience on every poet, he argues that "the poet in a poet" is inspired to write by reading another poet's poetry and will tend to produce work that is derivative of existing poetry, and, therefore, weak. Because a poet must forge an original poetic vision in order to guarantee his survival into posterity (i.e., to guarantee that future readers will not allow him to be forgotten), the influence of precursor poets inspires a sense of anxiety in living poets."
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I have applied this theory to visual artists and as such, Pollack had to break free from the influence of Picasso and Cubism. Contemporary artists continue to contend with the influence of these two masters in order to attempt to make original work.
The piece is arrayed like a chessboard and thus a competition. The Picasso images consist of many of his lives and loves, a friend or two, and several examples of his Painter and The Model genre. Dora Maar, Marie Therese, and Jacqueline are there, among others.
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Anxiety Of Influence
Mixed (oil and acrylic) on canvas
approx 36 x 28 (48 4x4 squares)
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