1. What are your general impressions of the second part of "Pollock"? Continuing the discussion in class, where do you see turning points in his life, and how does the film signal these transitions?
2. Turning to the reading: Nietzsche offers another philosophical model of artistic creation, one connected with ancient Greece, but expressing a much more modern idea of the artist as creator, rather than imitator. How do Nietzsche's ideas of the Apollonian and the Dionysian relate to "Pollock"? Can we see Pollock (the man) as "simultaneously an artist of intoxication and dreams?" (p. 4). Is he an embodiment of Nietzsche's definition of Greek tragedy? (p. 4) If so, can that "excuse" Pollock's behavior in the last part of his life?
3. About the beginning of "Basquiat," what do you think foreshadows his future and how? Do you see any connections between events so far and the schematic structure of the artist's life?
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