Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock

On the floor I am more at ease , I feel nearer , more a part of the painting , since this way I can walk around in it , work from the four sides and be literally `in ' the painting

-- Jackson Pollock , 1947 The role of an artist is to reinvent the world through sculpture painting , and any other artistically expressionistic manner . Jackson Pollock 's contribution to the artistic world and to art history is enveloped with is many great

paintings , and his revolutionary style of painting . The following will examine Jackson Pollock 's role as an artist , in which ways he has contributed to art , and finally an analysis of several of Pollock 's work will be incorporated into the body of this essay

The time period in which Pollock worked was America in the abstract expressionism era of painting (roughly 1940-1950 . Abstract expressionism for Pollock emerged as a `drip and splash ' style of painting in which he would bend over a painting and randomly allow the paint to fall to the canvas thus creating a sporadic and mesmerizing canvas . Jackson would not use traditional artistic painter 's brushes but instead he used other found objects around him such as sticks knives or even towels in to create a different texture on the canvas (this is reminiscent of Van Gogh using the different side of the brush , instead of the bristles he would use the stub thus creating in `Starry Night ' a more fluid feel to the canvas and an almost three-dimensional plane with the uplifted paint . Along with the use of foreign objects as paint applicators , Jackson would also incorporate found objects around him (much like Picasso 's found art pieces ) and the texture of a lot of his abstract expressionistic art would have elements of glass , or even sand in the art 's design . It was in this manner that Jackson hoped to tap into his unconscious artistic side much like the writings of Virginia Woolf who incorporated a fluid narrative style of the unconscious mind , Pollock would work as if possessed by something allowing his unconscious mind to have control of his actions and thereby resulting in a surrealist imagination come to fruition (WebMuseum paragraph 1-2

Pollock painted as if his paintings had unrelated parts and therefore more unconscious parts . This abandonment of the traditional led to the revolutionary art style of abstract expressionism which lead to other periods of radical art such as avant-guarde and post-modern . The elements of abstract expressionism can best be seen in Pollock 's Male and Female (1942 ) found in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . In this painting the viewer can plainly see no traditional forms of the male and female body as would be expected from the title but rather various seemingly unconnected forms with vibrant colors . Thus , the viewer comes to realize that each shape and color and line is a symbol of something else which Pollock wished to...