An Analysis Of Jackson Pollock : Abstract Expressionism

Jackson Pollock was not known for painting images, that's because he didn't use a brush He believed the brush would interfere with the dripping of the paint. Instead Jackson used a stick to pour paint onto the canvas. He would change the color, type of paint, and the thickness of the paint as the work progressed. Therefore, the painting would reflect the movements of his arm and body as he applied the paint. The activity of the painting would become part of the painting itself. That style of painting is called action painting. Jackson Pollock was the first "all-over" action painted just like Cernuschi stated on page 67 in his book Meaning and Significance, "He painted no image, just action." It looked like Pollock almost imitated a dance. Pollock dripped paint all over the canvas, but always had total control of where the splash of paint would be. That is how he got his nickname "Jack the

In the White Light painting of Jackson Pollock, I think the repetition and balance of the principle of design are strengthen for work visually.

When Pollock was witnessed painting, people would refer to him as ‘dancing across the canvas’. Each painting was like a dance routine and he let the painting guide his hand around and around in circles until it was completed. Pollock did not like for his audience to be able to identify any trace of academic artistic quality. He was even notorious for signing his paintings by pressing the palm of his hand down onto the wet paint. It was efficient for him, especially since in his ‘drip’ paintings he would never lift a brush. What this did to his work then was no longer did he display a replica of a scene or person like most landscape and portrait artists, but instead he displayed his fluent motion.

The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against

Perchuk argues that because men were expressing weak emotions through paintings and that as society accepted, art critiques viewed the paintings and Pollock’s personality emotions of femininity— a masquerade. Perchuk articulated that, “The masquerade of the drip painting offered … unemasculated phallic display to the perceived emasculation … and …the perception of

Art has evolved and regenerated itself many times during our human existence. These differences are defined through changes in styles under various theories. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a style known as Expressionism became popular. During this movement the artists were trying to use their artwork as a tool of expression toward life. It was mainly dominant in the nonrepresentational arts, such as abstract visual arts and music. It also was probably one of the most difficult movements to understand because the whole point of the piece lay within the artist. Not only was it a movement, it defined the act of art as a whole. From the beginning of time, each work of art, excluding replicas, show a way of expressing

Crush of Expression on Canvas American culture struggled to break with the past and with Europe, and define itself on its own, new terms. In the arts, many sought freedom from the ideological underpinnings of Marxist-driven realism or the aesthetics of Cubism and Surrealism. The new American painting—embodied in the works of Jackson Pollock, Rothko, and Willem de Kooning—pushed at these traditional categories and terms. Their paintings were entirely nonobjective. In their subject matter, huge scale, and techniques with no easel astonished many viewers.

Pollock began doing all of his works in a completely abstract manner in the mid 1940s. But, after 1947 is when Pollock's most recognizable abstract works would be produced. This is when he began placing large canvases on the floor and creating his famous abstract works. On these large canvases, he started to use his "drip" technique, which was first shown to him by Siqueiro. These drip paintings were first shown in 1948. They are said to reflect both ecstasy and anxiety. After they were introduced to the world, a critic actually characterized Pollock as "Jack the Dripper". These works captivated and scared his future wife, Lee Krasner, a painter herself.

Aggressive and harsh, raw in colour, the texture thick and heavy as if it had been relentlessly worked and re-worked over again and again. Pictures don't have the delicacy of Pollock's. Shapes are vaguely suggestive , pressed together, brush strokes are dense

Abstract Expressionism became one of the most common school of art disciplines for artists to join because the discipline holds common beliefs. These artists were all committed to expressive art of profound emotion and universal themes, and most were influenced by the legacy of Surrealism, a movement that they translated into a new style fitted with the post-war mood of anxiety and trauma (The Art Story). Abstract Expressionism artwork are typically working with the canvas that can be attacked by the painter, filled with a variety of colors and abstract form, and vigorous general expressionism. Jackson Pollock’s Number 1 (1950) is regarded as one of the most important artworks of Abstract Expressionism, which is displayed at the National Gallery of

Taking following extreme cases of abstraction, when speaking of Pollock’s work such as his ”Autumn Rhythm” (1950), we realize how the visual formed is fully based on science and gravity that permits the dripping and pouring of the paint on the horizontal canvas. But, by walking around/on the canvas we can argue Greenberg’s analysis and suppose that the painter possibly connects with it, he gets drowned in the act and merges inside the painting while mechanically pouring paint on the canvas. This means that even though the painter tries to focus on the flatness of the painting rather than the content and is physically detached from the canvas, this focus cannot erase an emotional

White Light has numerous colors and one can estimate that there are seven colors seen with the naked eye red, yellow, blue, green, grey, white, and black, although tint and shade vary, some of the colors are darker or lighter in value due to the fact that they have been blended into one another. Determining the colors requires a person to look not only on the surface but analyze each layer to arrive at a conclusion of color usage. Pollock dripped paint onto the canvas straight from the tubes which the originated from. Those tubes were also used to create soft peaks and layers to make the artists’ work texturally as intriguing as the color choices. He also used a stick instead of a paintbrush to cast the mediums onto the canvas. Another interesting fact is that Pollock painted with his canvas on the floor to feel a direct connection with his art.

world as did in the Paris to New York shift of the 1940's and 1950's.

Modernism has found new expressions in art which in turn have changed how people critic and understand art, in this essay I am going to focus more on abstract expressionism. Debates in this movement have gone as far as influencing many artists and the two well-known critics who have made this movement more remarkable and have changed the art world completely are Clement Greenberg and Ronald Rosenberg. On the writings of these two gentlemen about art I will try to draw out the differences in the idea of what abstract expressionism is and what it is supposed to be, compare and outline the similarities and the differences between the two critics.

Before minimalism in the 1950s, the dominant art movement in the United States was Abstract Expressionism. The artists at that time’s goal were to express their personal emotions through their artwork (“Introduction to Minimal Art”). One popular branch of Abstract Expressionism was called Action Painting. This style of painting was spontaneous; paint would be