Pollock & Persona
If we take the assertion that Pollock's transitional canvas, Mural was merely an overgrown billboard personal ad, we can reaffirm the closeness of his work and personality. Here we continued to have the pop culture icon, the individual who cultivated a mystique and historicization of his own existence... As persona becomes increasingly important in the arts, we find a fundamental shift in the focus of the historical and perceptual consideration: first pointing towards the work and society that produced it, later solely to the individual (removed from their context). Perhaps the removal of context is inevitable as we attempt to bring the experience into a universally accessible space.