why was jackson pollock's number 1,1948 a masterpiece?

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 10 Nov 2004 18:14 PST

Does this article answer your question?

'Jackson Pollock?s Number One 1948 or ? How Can We Be Abandoned and
Accurate at the Same Time?'
http://www.aestheticrealism.org/Pollock_LS.htm

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 10 Nov 2004 18:16 PST

In particular I might stress this (from the same source mentioned above):

"What beautifully comes through in Number One 1948 is a sense of the
force of reality as tremendously free, and yet having subtle and
mysterious order, accuracy and logic, too.

"The depths, the real depths of self are the world," writes Mr.
Siegel. And one of the things I love in this painting is how we see
self and world as one in the way Jackson Pollock stamped his own hand
prints in the upper right-hand corner of the painting?and we see
something resembling two pink footprints in the lower left corner. The
warmly touchable and the vast infinite are made one.

In "Beauty?and Jackson Pollock, Too," Mr. Siegel writes:  

No matter how unrestrained, elemental, untrammeled, without
"forethought" Jackson Pollock is, or anyone else?if his work is
successful, there is in this work power and calm, intensity and
rightness, unrestraint and accuracy?and these, felt as one, make for
beauty."

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Nov 2004 09:51 PST

Hi. I'm still hoping to hear back from you.

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