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ture that looked and felt de Kooning . Pollock was another ball
game . It was a totally different gestalt and offered things that were
much more difficult, more rewarding, something to learn from
and to develop in oneself.
If
you had it in yourself, you could go
from there.
DS:
He was much harder to improve on than de Kooning.
HF:
Much more, and therefore much more exciting, vital. For me ,
there was more of the history and future of art in Pollock than . . . .
Helen Frankenthaler is having a retrospective of her works on paper,
1949-84, at the Guggenheim Museum in February 1985.
