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` The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.` (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...

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