Sunday, March 30, 2014

Jackson pollack


       Jackson Pollock and his paintings went a different direction than the common ideas and methods of other artist. His paintings are "mopping up operation of the school paris. He puts together a re mince of cubism and surrealism. He tends to put different kind of energy towards his paintings. They called his work the " Abstracts Expressionists". He placed a tremendous value on the process of creating art, something he found to be equal and important. He hoped that his work transcended the issue of being an American. Since he himself feels that he is American, since he himself feels that he is American, being that he was raised here. There was a time he focused on abstract paintings, but after awhile he went back to painting women. But not the ideal women i should say. He painted his own arms and shoulders the way he wanted them to look, even if they weren't symmetrically the same. He found the mouth more interesting than any other body part. in his own words he found them "weird". He found them more interesting in women because it was more appealing than men. I found his paintings interesting. Especially the women. Just the way everything was painted. And like i said before, its not the ideal women you see everyday, but his own imaging of what he sees as art in women.

1 comment:

  1. Kenya,
    Your blog post is not answering the questions. I am asking you to describe in your own words the artist's process. The issue of being american is not part of his process of dripping paint on a canvas on the floor. Whatever online source you're using (maybe another part of the video about Wilhelm de Kooning?) doesn't even sound like it's talking about Pollock, because as far as I know, he never painted a woman or anything marginally figurative in his later life.

    Just give detailed descriptions in answer to the questions based on YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE LOOKING AT THE ART.

    Also, please attempt the process drawing HW assignment.

    Good beginning. Now let's really begin...

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