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By Joanne Hilty
Rappahannock News "Writer
An Oscar nominee for Best Actor and winner for Best Supporting Actress, this impressive directorial debut by Ed Harris concentrates on performance as the key to a convincing interpretation of one of America’s most important and elusive artists.
“Pollock,” starring Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden, shows at The Theatre on Gay Street, Washington on Friday, Nov. 2 at 8 p.m.
Jackson Pollock, one of the key figures in Abstract Expressionism and America’s first postwar art star, was a man destined to be consumed by his own internal fires. As insecure as he was gifted, a full-blown alcoholic prone to frightening rages, he was often on the edge of agony, a prisoner of demons he could no more identify than control.
He was a self-destructive innovator in the vein of such postwar icons as Jack Kerouac and James Dean. Although the 1940s New York art scene is evocatively sketched, the film concentrates on the two redeeming factors of Pollock’s otherwise damned existence: his painting and his marriage to the supportive but self-assertive Lee Krasner.
Harris’ Pollock is a complicated
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