John Fowles on Pollock

Been reading John Fowls the JournalsVolume 1
For a entry dated 9th November 1958
Whitehitchapel Exhibition on Pollock

Jackson Pollock Exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery.Great wad-sized canvases dribbled,splashed,splashed with colour.Dozens of eminently seriouse people staring at them. Pollock”s artistic qualities seem fairly clear -now and then a then a nice sense of colour (and often,not) and a way with sloppy , casual arabesques (’squiggles’)

Interesting remember that this was written in 1958, there is a sense of confusion and almost getting the work and then it goes away.