Posted
on January 28, 2015
Today's famous birthday is a highly regarded artist. Someone who is considered a
major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Someone whose
work is well known, influential, and high priced!
Also,
strangely enough, someone whose work is sometimes criticized as “just
a big mess,” or “not even art.”
However, Pollock is considered a modern artist. He is also considered to be someone who turned the modern art world upside down!
What
made Jackson so famous, so controversial, so influential?
For
the most part, Jackson didn't stand at an easel and paint a canvas
with a brush or palette knife.
Instead, he stood over a canvas
stretched out on the floor, and he poured paint, or he dripped paint.
He even flung paint. Sometimes he used sticks and trowels rather than brushes and
palette knives.
With
all that pouring and dripping and flinging, Jackson's works certainly
weren't realistic representations of people, creatures, places, and
things. Instead, his pieces were abstract. They were expressions of
pure line and color. They were motion caught by the canvas. They were
spattering splatters and drapes of drips.
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| Some of Pollack's paintings are more monotone, some are very colorful. Which do you prefer? |
Celebrate
Pollock by trying a poured-paint or dripped-paint piece yourself!
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