Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
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Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
His abstract paintings of the American artist Jackson Pollock are among the highest achievement of 20th century art from the 40s-50s.
He was inspired by the work of earlier modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro.
Pollocks painting has had an enormous impact on contemporary art up until this present day.
1945- married artist lee Krasner and moved to countryside where he began his infamous pouring technique
Artist practice and technique
Pollock abandoned the conventional tools and methods of the painter, putting aside brushed, artists paint and traditional composition
He poured an flung house paint directly onto large canvases placed on the floor
Began technique in 45 began pouring paint wither straight out of the can or with sticks and hardened brushes directly onto a canvas placed on the floor
“the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom, the bomb, the radio in the old forms of the renaissance or any other past culture”-
Pollock felt that his technique reflected not only the inner world of the unconscious but also the cultural experience of the time that he was living in.-he felt compelled to move away from figurative art.
“i try to stay away from recognisable images” he felt that it was important that the meaning of the artwork not be carried by any recognisable image,as this was something extraneous to the medium of the painting itself
Used the effects of gravity,liquidity of materials and the collisions between paint and canvas to show the viewer how oil paint behaves when it is pooled,what enamel looks like when it is thrown onto different kinds of surfaces-either dry paint,wet paint or unprimed canvas.
Blue poles 1952
The final instalment in a series of works that have changed the course of modern art