Behind the Art Essay

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

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.

However, by the time the Abstract Expressionists took the New York art world by storm in the 1950s, Davis’ art struggled to maintain its modernist edge. Another decade would pass before Davis’ visionary presence would be cemented in art history. In the1960s, artists of the Pop Art movement admired his attention to mass culture. Long before painters such as Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha, Davis was painting soap boxes, billboards and gas pumps with a tongue-in-cheek wit that was ahead of his time. Most of Davis’ influences came from his surrounding American urban environment in the 1920’s and 30’s, such as the commercial world of the US, neon signs, jazz music, and the American nightlife.

After some time Pollock became addicted to drinking. He tried to resolve his problems by working to keep him busy. But despite being busy with work, Pollock could not stop drinking. In 1942, Pollock met Lee Krasner, a Jewish contemporary artist and an established painter, at a party. “She later visited Pollock at his studio and was impressed with his art. They soon became

Born in the state of Wyoming in 1912, to be later deemed as the, “Most powerful painter in contemporary America”, Jackson Paul Pollock, the “action painter”, was born. (1). Though Pollock had a rough childhood including an empty upbringing and numerous changes in residence across the United States, in the end, it all in the influenced his style of art. After moving to New York City in the 1930s, Pollock worked with numerous surrealists, muralists and others who influenced and shaped Pollock’s mature style and an era he opened the audience’s mind to, an era called, Abstract Expressionism.(2). Abstract Expressionism was an era that embraced a variety of individual styles, freedom of techniques, use of large canvases and a

This piece was the very first to be composed with Pollock’s drip painting method. No one else had ever used this technique was never even thought of before Pollock debuted the painting in 1943. Drip painting was used exclusively by Pollock, making him stand out from other artists. He also used unconventional tools for his masterpieces such as harden brushes, sticks, and basting syringes. Using these odd objects made his work look energetic and helped to establish him as an abstract artist. After the composition of Mural Pollock shied away from his more contemporary works. Pollock also had an obscure process to make his paintings. He did not use an easel like most instead he used the floor of a barn he converted into a studio so he could feel closer to the painting. Pollock was known to appear to dance around the makeshift studio as he was working never realized he was doing it because his mind became absorbed into his works. His weird methods caused him to rarely redo a piece and never be afraid of making a mistake. Jackson Pollock was the most creative person of his

Mr. Jackson Pollock, deemed the most famous modern artist of the 20th Century is well known in the history of American art as an Abstract Expressionist of drip paintings. Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Jackson was attributed claim to be a liberating artist with no real discipline of one’s self expressions. In 1929 Jackson Pollock began his art studies at the Students’ League in New York, here is where he was introduced to using his expressions from the subconscious and creating art. After viewing a Picasso exhibition; entitled Picasso: 40 Years of His Art, Jackson Pollack seemed to realize the power of expressionism and later began his drip style paintings. Three years ago I can recall a movie

Various famous people come from a modest life and Andy Warhol is one of them. He was born to Slovakian immigrants as Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August 6, 1928. His father and mother were Ondrej and Julia Warhola and he was the youngest of three boys. His father worked in construction while his mother did work as an embroiderer. They were Byzantine Catholics and raised their sons the same. Andy Warhol was a sickly child and would often miss school due to chorea, a disease that is connected to the nervous system. However, Warhol’s mother was an artistic person and introduced him to art whenever he was sick at home and Warhol loved it. When Andy Warhol was fourteen, his father died. In his will, he wanted his youngest son to use the money to go toward a further education. Andy Warhol graduated high school in 1945 and enrolled at the Carnegie Institute for Technology. After graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Warhol moved to New York City.

It wasn’t until 1949 that Jackson Pollock really got famous overnight; with the help of the life magazine when they asked “Is he the greatest painter in the United States?” This was because many people were very interested in his new form of art, which is called the drip period, where he would let paint flow of his tools onto a canvas that was on the

The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody, Wyoming on January 28, 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock's artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles, California where he joined two of his brothers. From there, he went on to New York to attend the Art Students' League after being convinced by one of his brothers whom also attended the school.

Norman Rockwell, a name most have heard if not learned, when the topic of art was ever brought up, was a famous artist and illustrator who depicted the highs and lows of the common man. His art is loved by many today as it was decades ago. Many have seen his work be it online, at an art museum or in an art history book and have been intrigued by his art. I will be covering the early life, artistic success and tragic passing of the great artist, Norman Rockwell.

Hopper would go on to used different techniques such as impressionist, pointillism; Hopper was heavily criticized with this type of work. He would later stop using these style and became invested in etching, etching is a process in which acid is poured on to a layer that has been drawn on by a needle, which would then create an print. Hopper would later help him into finding his style of painting, in terms of inspiration Hopper claimed “ The only real influence I ever had was myself”(23) this quote would say a lot about Hopper and how he felt many didn’t appreciate his artwork. Hopper would go on to have a breakout during the 1920’s and 1930’s; he would be considered a leading artist at the period. Hopper would go on to have a greater success when he married his wife Josephine Nivision, she would become a great impact on Hopper after work. Josephine would play a role in how Hopper would incorporate female figures into his painting, and also as how she served as his only female model for all of Hopper later

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

The Deep was painted by Jackson Pollock in 1953 and was mostly done with black and white, which he considered the essential colors. There are some pecks of yellow and light blue throughout the canvas. The painting was huge, 5’X7’, and was painted with oil and enamel on canvas. Pollock would paint this size canvas by putting it on the floor and placing one leg on it while he painted. Pollock used a “drip method” which consisted of pouring paint on the canvas and dripping paint onto it with sticks and brushes. Pollock’s most famous paintings were created during the “drip period” from 1947 to 1950.

The thing worthy noticing was that in the year Pollock started his drip paintings, even though people liked them, but no one really considered them, let along buying them. Surprisingly, just in next year, forty his paintings were purchased, of course, in very high prices, and fifty two were bought in the year after that year. Therefore, some attribute this phenomena to the governmental propaganda. With this, America not only attacked arts and polities in the USSR, but also gained the reputations in art world that there would be the new art movement leading by the US. As a result, Pollock earned a lot of money and prestige, and pressure too. For entire four years, Pollock had drip painted again and again. At last, he realized that he could not create anything new. Because he did not have great sketching skills, he could not draw something else. The only thing he could do was drip paintings. He had tried some new inventions, but, like paintings he draw before, no one was willing to spend any for those. After the four year, he stopped painting and hated it. The aura shackled him to be a drip paintings-ist, and he did not have the ability to struggle it off. As a man full of emotional strength, absolutely he could not stand such position. And, to the end, he