We installed a concrete birdbath ( soon to be replaced by a more effective dripper ), and began by planting an array of sunflowers, which attract chickadees, cardinals, titmice, nuthatches and buntings, as well as bees.
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Indeed there was, one that has earned Harris his third Oscar nomination, allowed him to make his directorial debut and brought the 1950s Abstract Expressionist painter, the so-called " Jack the Dripper, " to a whole new audience.
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The film is " Pollock, " which gorgeously explores and explodes the myth of Jackson Pollock, the abstract expressionist painter nicknamed " Jack the Dripper, " who struggled with a mess of inner demons and died recklessly in a car crash in 1956 at the age of 44.
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His career after leaving Arizona for the last time is one of aspiration and frustration, mixed with bouts of drinking and depression, but when he finally found fame as " Jack the Dripper " in the late 1940s, he always maintained it was this experience in the West that gave him his sense of huge spaces to fill.
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There's Edward Hopper's " Chop Suey, " two flappers from the 1920s at a table in a Chinese restaurant; major work by Georgia O'Keeffe, marking her shift from the Atlantic Coast to the colors and forms of New Mexico; and one by Jackson Pollock, the man some called " Jack the Dripper " because of his special technique.
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In 1980 shortly after moving to New York from Chicago, Bidlo participated in Colab s Times Square Show and in 1982 Bidlo was awarded a studio at the P . S . One Museum where he staged " Jack the Dripper at Peg's Place, " an installation rendering his vision of Peggy Guggenheim s Beekman Place townhouse, with the fireplace famously used by Pollock as a pissoir.
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In fact, it's possible, if you go in skeptical or ignorant, to come away even from this earnest film thinking Pollock, the greatest American painter of the second half of the 20th century, was an interesting man but artistically a fraud : Jack the Dripper, an abusive, taciturn egomaniac supported by a coterie of hothouse esthetes, a reckless fatalist who, at 44, drank and drove into a tree, killing himself and a young woman, when he came to believe along with his numerous detractors that he was a phony.
