Lifeline Clyfford Still (2019)

Jackson Pollock said he makes the rest of us look academic Mark Rothko acknowledged him as a mythmaker and Clement Greenberg called him a highly influential maverick and an independent genius Clyfford Still one of the strongest most original contributors to abstract expressionism walked away from the commercial art world at the height of his career Extremely disciplined principled and prolific Still left behind a treasure trove of works like no other major artist in history With a wonderful mosaic of archival material found footage and audio recorded by the artist himself Lifeline paints a picture of a modern icon his uncompromising creative journey and the price of independence