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The International Council at
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
JACKSON POLLOCK: 1912-1956
(São Paulo and Europe)

Critical reviews
Page 7

2. Rome, Italy showing (continued)

From: Avanti, Rome, March 22, 1958, by Giovanni Galtieri
(Daily, Socialist Party organ, circulation 80,000)

In reality Pollock is not sensitive and has no imagination. His work is a single violent centrifugal stroke, repeated ad infinitum with a dizzying monomania. Compelled, like a "sorcerer's apprentice," by unchained forces, Pollock is a personality without roots and without background, frustrated by a dramatic psychological "maladjustment," who tries to turn away from the terror of his spiritual emptiness with a mechanized drunkeness....

As recorder of the psychological squalor of American life and the indifference and violence which it hides, Pollock does reach a kind of barbaric grandeur.