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
1912 - 1956
American painter,
the commanding figure of
the Abstract Expressionist movement.
It has been suggested that Pollock was influenced by Native American sand paintings, made by trickling thin lines of colored sand onto a horizontal surface. It was not until 1947 that Pollock began his "action" paintings, influenced by Surrealist ideas of "psychic automatism" (direct expression of the unconscious). Pollock would fix his canvas to the floor and drip paint from a can using a variety of objects to manipulate the paint.
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3 Comments:
That was fun! I felt artistic and expressive.
Pollock's work are gorgeous.
I just suck at that, but it was fun.
I'm glad that both of you had fun, that was the intention.
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