{"id":3015,"date":"2011-12-12T08:35:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/inexplicable\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T13:35:59","slug":"inexplicable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/inexplicable\/","title":{"rendered":"Inexplicable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was leafing through the second edition of <strong>MOMA Highlights &#8211; 350 Works From the Museum of Modern Art New York <\/strong>and came across the early (1943) Jackson Pollack painting, &quot;The She Wolf.&quot; It&#39;s a very layered, busy and disturbing image in which the editors claim &quot;&#8230; [Pollack&#39;s] focus is a compound of mythology and an iconography of the unconscious.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However they go on to note that Pollack himself made no such assertions:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;She-Wolf came into existence because I had to paint it.&#0160; Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was leafing through the second edition of MOMA Highlights &#8211; 350 Works From the Museum of Modern Art New York and came across the early (1943) Jackson Pollack painting, &quot;The She Wolf.&quot; It&#39;s a very layered, busy and disturbing image in which the editors claim &quot;&#8230; [Pollack&#39;s] focus is a compound of mythology and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}