Hey guy's I hope you know and have researched your relevant part's. I need you guys to post your findings on the blog by tomorrow! so i can make a powerpoint for wednesday. I will post my info tomorrow as well. We don't want to rush come tuesday!
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Jackson Pollock, an American action painter 1912-1956 uses paint as an extension of his inner expressions. Pollock married Lee Krasner, also an American artist. In 1936 Pollock was first introduced to liquid paint which signifies and forms his exocentric and bold unconventional style. He uses synthetic enamel, metal and plastic paints and applies them to the canvas on the floor while moving around it which makes his style of painting similar to Indian Sand Painters of the West. ‘A quarter of a century has passed since Pollock’s death, and it is now easier, in hindsight, to see the unites of theme and shape in his art.’ (Hughes: 262) He works without any pre planned idea and focuses more on capturing his emotions at that particular point in time. ‘My painting is direct….I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. … When I’m painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.’ (Pollock: 353) His early work shows exploration of different techniques used in applying the paint. In 1947 he stopped using paint brushes and instead experimented with splattering, pouring and dripping paint on to the canvas. During 1948-50 Pollock’s works consisted of static forms with a delicate and abstract nature. This came to be known as his ‘drip period’. However in 1953 he began to use brushes again in his work
ReplyDelete‘Pollock had never been a natural draftsman; his line had a laboured, blurting character, an inherent clumsiness of the hand. But by 1948, he had mastered this way of painting “from the hip” swinging the paint stick in flourishes and frisks that required an almost dance like movement of the body, Pollock’s drawing had gone to the opposite extreme on their short flight to the canvas, the sheins and spatters of paint acquired a singular grace. The paint laid itself in arcs and loops as tight as the curve of a trout-cast. What Pollock’s hand did not know, the laws of fluid motion made up for.’(Hughes: This describes how he changed and introduced this stylised form of abstract painting which creates 3-dimentional forms and the movement of individual and grouped particles through the essence of cubism.
Sources
The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists, Peter and Linda Murray, 1959, Penguin books Ltd, England
The Shock of the New Art and the century of Change, Robert Hughes, 1980, British Broad Casting Corporation, London
Modern Art from 1800 to the present day, 1961, Larousse Encyclopedia of Modern Art, Paris
Pollock, Leonhard Emmerling, 2003
Let me know if anyone can find anything on what he used before liquid paint.
Awesome Karen thanks, I'm just going to put it into the Presentation!
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