Inspiration Excerpt ~ Pollock (2002) ~ Ed Harris 

For artists, the most inspirational... heroic... epic... changed history

I'm a big Pollock fan and that particular piece is among his best works.

What a breathtaking moment to have witnessed the moment she knew he was done and looked at it. What a brilliant artist.

I have, on my walls (and I'm actually counting right now, too) 8 Jackson Pollock prints/posters. He's always been a seminal genius, to me, but little did I know that, in comparison with what I only have in miniature on my walls by him, most of his greatest works were HUGE! Gargantuan! almost stretching from one end of a house all the way to its other end...!!!!!!! ❤🙏😇

The late Mexican painter Jose Luis Cuevas, once told in an interview that he really enjoyed this movie at it's time. A he also said that Pollock learned from another important Mexican painter and muralista David Alfaro Siqueiros.

The painting was not done in one night, despite the many rumors surrounding its creation. It was completed over a period of several weeks, and every few days, the most recently painted bit was allowed to dry. Therefore, when it was finished, the oil paint was almost entirely dry already and could be easily moved.

The music on this scene is truly inspiring. It really does complement the beauty in his discovery moment. Thanks for sharing this.

La Velocita! Speed of execution, Spontaneity, no Hesitation. Before Inspiration turns to Calculation, Miscalculation. Dionysian Action Painting. Dionysian Action Painting is an Art Form capturing feelings, rather than figures. It is the sublimation of the beast in Man, into Art. The Artist, under the influence of alcohol, is suddenly gripped by a fever-like desire to express himself in visual art. He does not know himself what the subject will be, but he knows that it is there, waiting. He abandons everything, rushes to his studio and grabs any available medium, whatever: A car bonnet, a lid, an ironing board! All is transformed, redone, re-valued, infinitely ennobled. Spontaneity is the essence! Suddenly IT comes: The Artist becomes a medium himself to an unconscious raw-energy, is attuned to a Divine Will that drives him on to complete his expression in a few seconds. No hesitation is the secret. For hesitation means calculation; and that is often miscalculation. As the Zen archer hits his target without aiming, so Dionysian Action Painting is executed blindly - and suddenly: it is there! The Artist hits that apple perched precariously on his own head!

Ed Harris is the Greatest American Artist ever! At the end of the western world We have our epic ED HARRIS ..just the best x 17

It's fantastic! I like it a lot. This scene is depicting that Jackson finally got the exact moment when this painting was supposed to take form. It was the moment, it was THAT moment. Like in psychology, it meant a flow state for him, where every thing was going to run well now. But, also, represents very well the relation with his wife: At the very ending we can see how this woman was able to understand Pollock with no words implied: She Knew that He's just finished. "Done is what has to be done". A woman as a support. Maybe the only one able to understand him. I think Jackson "found" the best woman he could all across the canvas X-D

I love this scene so much. There are too few moments in film of artists creating, and this one is a doozy! ❤️ Thank you for uploading.

If Pollock were alive, I bet he would think this thing that Ed Harris created (let's assume Ed did the whole thing, and why not, since anyone can be an artist) was a fine piece of art. Harris or you or I could be a painter of some degree if that's where our minds/souls/emotions were focused. To say Ed wasn't capable of making an excellent piece of art is snobbery. And even if I'm wrong about Ed, I do know for sure that he's a fine fucking actor and has been ever since I first saw him in Creepshow 1 (1982) of all movies. Glad he survived a headstone falling on his noggin. He SORELY deserves a fuckin Oscar. Every person in Glengarry Glen Ross will be an Oscar winner at that point. Alec Baldwin may never get one, but his best scene according to almost everyone was in that flick.

It's beautiful.

For an actor he has good control over the brush.

He is Awesome ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

Thankyou for uploading this

Harris captured tge essence of the isolated tormented artist......as an artist with many of these conditions conditions experiences....the rhythm over flat muted stages of mental instability can be attributed fuel the art mimic it even

A source of inspriation for artists

Leaving it all on the Canvas.. I love it ❤️❤️🖌️🎨

He was fantastic in this role…so was Marcia Gay Harden. ❤️❤️

Amazing what a speed .

Great mind at work.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

one of my favorite dark movies

Marsha Gay Harden was fabulous as Lee Krasner

I wonder what happened to the version of the mural created for the film - or any of the other paintings. Anyone know? I can't seem to find out.

Great movie, but also sad!

I saw a documentary on the restoration of Mural and what they discovered dispelled this story that he painted it overnight. Anyone have any info on this?

How did they get this canvas out of the apartment?

a painter sculpted a picture so moving it stood the test of time passings shared freely getting bigger like a family photo framed for guest for gatherings ignoring the controlled issues long as their dreams came true....and face page turning book in forgiveness....

Go Ed! 'The Artist As Genius'. What a crock.

Grazie ed una serena nottata

Is Ed Harris’s version for sale? It would be a relative bargain I’m sure.

Right after 2:40 you can see some black drips that are dried, and the yellow paint covers the drips, which I think is funny because this scene is supposed to be JP painting this in one sitting.

Our winter percussion ensemble theme

are you the actor ? you paint a good painting j

Go Jackson go

At 1:35 he sees and rest is just making it visible.

anyone know what painting is this?

He made a phi sign, oh dam

Beautiful scene. However, it should be noted that the implication here that he burned through in one go is not sustainable. He apparently worked on it for weeks; or perhaps we should say, over weeks, not for weeks. Perhaps it was a matters of hours rather than days, but over weeks.

He was vary good in The Rock.

I can believe he did that all in a short span but my big painting six by eight feet is not going so fast lol but I work on it sporadically.

It was thought that Pollock painted the Guggenheim Mural in one sitting, but that's been disproved.

he did not paint it in one night

This picture needed tremendous restoration. Bird droppings, exposed to Winter and summer heat. Not an easy task.

how did his shadow move before he did

So is this movie shown in art class?And if so in what context?

How-the-hell did they get a painting this large out of that small apartment?

Great scene, and truly inspirational, but obviously the mural was no painted in one day or even two. it took weeks for that amount of layering.

how did the paint dry so fast? he used oil paint

Just look at him work.

Damn Ed Harris can act, and paint. That is the story but the Getty restored this painting and the drama of a one night masterwork could not have been the case with the paint used.

1:30 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mural, 1943

He was a talented artist but he was a jerk. You can't help but be fascinated by his works of art. He was still a jerk.