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in the whole goddamn show.

What's this?

I see the head...

the body--

This isn't cubism, Jackson...

because you're not really

breaking down the figure...

into multiple views.

You're just showing us

one side.

What is this? Free association?

Automatism?

I'm just painting, Lee.

But what you're doing,

Jackson--

Don't tell me you don't know

what you're doing.

Are you experimenting

with surrealism?

Is this a dream?

Even if it's a dream,

it's still what you see.

It's life.

You're not just randomly

putting paint on the canvas.

You're painting something.

You can't abstract

from nothing.

You can only abstract from life--

from nature.

I am nature.

If you only work from inside yourself,

you'll repeat yourself.

Why don't you paint

the f***ing thing.

"The moon shone bright

on Mrs. Porter and on her daughter.

Washed their feet in soda water."

What the hell's that?

Eliot. T.S. Eliot.

Gentlemen, T.S. Eliot.

Did you hear Gorky

sold to the Modern?

Gorky's a cow.

They forage and eat and come back

in the stable and they're still chewing.

He'll go look at a Picasso

for hours...

go back to his studio

and spit it out.

- F*** him.

- But he's so good at it.

Yeah, he's good at it,

but we gotta break through that sh*t.

- What do you think of Kline?

- Kline's a whore.

- Picasso?

- A has-been.

De Kooning?

He's all right.

He's learning.

What do you think

of Jackson Pollock?

That's what we think.

Watch it!

Come on.

I have just climbed up and down

five flights of stairs.

I'm Peggy Guggenheim.

I do not climb up five flights

of stairs to nobody home.

Not l.

I do not climb up

five flights of stairs.

We're sorry.

Sorry is not the word for it.

I have weak ankles.

My fault.

My God. And you're drunk!

You're drunk.

Are you drunk?

" L.K."?

Who the hell is L.K.?

I didn't come here

to look at L.K.

Peggy, this way.

Now, these show something.

This is better.

The most powerful work

to come around the pike.

There's no three ways about it.

You're not really a surrealist...

and, well,

my few Americans are.

What's most impressed Jackson

about the European moderns...

is their concept that the source

of art comes from the unconscious.

Yes, yes. I'm sure.

Jackson, Howard's here.

Do you want coffee?

You've got your first one-man show.

Art of This Century,

November seventh.

- Bravo, Jackson.

- Congratulations.

Here. Have a seat.

Peggy will give you a stipend

of$1 50 a month.

"If at year's end the artist does not

sell equivalent to the advance...

plus one-third commission, he will

make up the difference in paintings."

In other words, my dears...

if you don't sell $2,400 worth,

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