The era in which Picasso's Paris was outdone by Jackson Pollock's NYC

Me in front of THE Jackson Pollock painting
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The award-winning movie Pollock will be the basis for our study of the great Western artistic lurch that took place in the post-WWII era.

What Picasso began in Paris was continued by brash men and the vigorous media in NYC.

We should note the dynamism of the newspaper and radio force that developed in NYC in the Roaring 20's and the TV center that developed in the 50's and 60's.

William Randolph Hearst vs Joseph Pulitzer.
The retched prevarications of Yellow Journalism.
The muckrakers.

Meanwhile, the post-WWII explosion in American vitality was signaled by the brash work of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem DeKooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline.

Manhattan questions -
- Where's the Met?
- Describe Greenwich Village in the 1950's.
- Downtown.
- The Bowery?
- MoMa?