From the Drip-Paintings of Jackson Pollock to the Open Form of Earle Brown: Methodological Interconnections in the Years of the New York School
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Pollock, Brown, Dripping, New York School, Open FormAbstract
The end of World War II ushered in the gradual emergence of the New York School, where a number of musicians and painters began to develop new experimental approaches, leading to the advent of Abstract Expressionism. Taking his lead from an analysis of spontaneity, randomness, freedom of execution and interpretative diversity observed in the dripping of Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Earle Brown (1926–2002) developed the open form of musical composition and notation, where the musician was given freedom of interpretation at the time of musical performance and the score itself proposed a multitude of different ways for the piece to be performed.
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