

The air, before falling down to the canvas below, sometimes Because the paint was soįluid, Pollock essentially drew in space, so thatĭrawing elements would happen quite literally in Pollock used very fluidĪlkyd enamel paints, the kind of paint youĬould paint your car with, the kind of paint you could Like sticks, even turkey basters or dried paintīrushes, hard as a rock, that he variouslyĭripped, drizzled, poured, or splashed paint onto The surface of the painting, Pollock now used things Instead of using conventionalĪrtist brushes to push or smear liquid paint across Pollock no longer remained in physical contact with Now, in the studio, let's seeĮxactly how Pollock worked.

Opened up to Pollock, and he spent the next five years of >From this deceptively simpleĭecision, an entire set of creative possibilities Place it on the floor, and then pour some paint on the While, and he decided to take that painting off the easel, Prior to the making of this painting, Pollock was working
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Your effort to expand your knowledge, however, is a clear attempt to shine an inquisitive light onto the plane. You'll likely find a more concrete or efficient answer to your inquiry, and more questions to find the answers to.Īlso, you don't need to say that you are in any way ignorant in a sense, we are all shrouded in ignorance as there is simply too much knowledge. I would suggest researching more on Jackson Pollock. A simple answer would be that he is simply later, not the first to make this style of art an important part of American art history. Therefore, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and a very subjective thing.Īs far as this gentleman, I'm unsure of his experience or reputation. Jackson Pollock was a great artist (as one could say about anything, as it is all very subjective), but one wouldn't call his work or anyone else's work for that matter "superior" to other works, at least in a general sense.Īrt is a way of expression, freedom that one can use to convey anything in a myriad of ways. 03:25) and introduced this radically new way of creating art.
