Per the Art Story Foundation, he was born Paul Jackson Pollock in 1912 Cody, Wyoming the youngest of five children, and the son of a surveyor constantly moving from place to place all over California, Pollock went to high school in Los Angeles, CA, where he met Philip Guston who introduced Pollock to Theosophical ideas (Artstory.org). Which prepare Pollock for his future dealing in Surrealism and psychoanalysis, Pollock had a rough child hood but he developed a love for nature, animals, and the expanse of the land when he was a child, Jackson Pollock was only 11 years old when he discovered Native American Art (Freedgood 112).
Pollock was an abstract expressionist American painter in the 1930’s he studied with Thomas Benton in New York at
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With the use of lines and color the narrative style of the murals and the composition. With bright colors and strong motion in their works it is easy to see what drew Pollock to these painters. Miró and Orozco stuck to their abstract movements while Going West uses realism. Pollock painted Going West in his early days before the drip painting became popular. Pollock only painted for 30 years while Orozco and Miró painted throughout their lifespan. Joan Miró was a Spanish painter and printmaker (Wilkes 216). Per the Smithsonian Institute Miró was born in 1893 and died in 1983, early in his career, Miró primarily painted still-lives, landscapes, and genre scenes. The crowded composition of Miró in some ways echoed his feeling regarding the violent upheaval in Europe at the time. Jose Clemente Orozco was a Mexican muralist and he was born in 1883 and lived until 1949 (Wilkes 98). Their styles of work impressed Pollock which helped him to create and interpret their techniques into his …show more content…
Then as his age progressed and he studied with Thomas Benton, he began to paint more expressive pieces. Fast forward to his time with the Jungian analyst who was helping him to treat his alcoholism they encouraged him to create drawings again which would later be the guide to create his paintings. These works during this time shaped Pollock’s understanding of his painting not only as projections of his insides but expressions of his fear and pain and those of modern society at the time living with the loom of nuclear war overhead. Pollock’s work depended on what was going on in the world around him and he used his talents to expose or to deal with the way he was feeling sober or not. Pollock was expressive in his work especially in his drip paintings. Pollock was so personal in his work that he created a new look and style of painting with his painting later in his body of art. Pollock relied on his intuition and his body to infuse his images with emotional force, he felt driven to express his emotions through painting (Metro
January 28, 1912, Paul Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming. He was the youngest of five boys, and began taking an interest in art after his oldest brother, Charles Pollock. He later enrolled at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, first doing sculptures, and then later doing paintings. After getting kicked out for starting fights, he moved to New York and shadowed Thomas Hart Benton, attending the Art Students League. Benton’s family took Jackson under their wing. But after his father died suddenly, Pollock became depressed. This lead to excessive drinking and the threatening of Charles’ wife with an ax that he threw at one of Charles’ paintings scheduled for an upcoming exhibition. He was then kicked out, and the Great Depression started to take place.
Paul Cezanne was a French artist born January 19th 1839. Cezanne was considered a Post-Impressionist painter that also helped with the development of the Cubist style. He was born in Aix-en-Provence a small southern French town and was the son of a wealthy banker, Louis-Auguste Cezanne. His mother was Anne Elisabeth Honorine Aubert. He also had two little sisters, Marie and Rose. Paul started going to Saint Joseph school in Aix, when he was just ten. In 1857 Paul started studying drawing from a Spanish Monk named, Joseph Gibert, at the Free Municipal School of Drawing in Aix. His father wanted him to obtain a lucrative profession, so in 1858 he began attending the University of Aix, studying law; still taking art classes. After about a year studying law, Cezanne finally decided to tell his father he wanted to move to Paris to pursue a profession as an artist. His father was not pleased with his decision, but eventually agreed.
With an admiration for the unconventional, I am moved by Jackson Pollock’s Autumn Rhythm (number 30). If I could see any art piece in person, this would be my choice. I believe that Pollock’s radical painting style and the way in which he lay the canvas flat on the floor to work, gives this piece a deepened perspective. There is a visible control in the chaos to which Pollock has said "I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident." Seeing this piece in person would awaken my unconsciousness, and convey the feeling of spontaneity that I wish society will still embrace.
The second child of Jarvis W. Rockwell and his wife Nancy, Norman Perceval Rockwell was born in the famous New York City. In his summers he enjoyed life on the countryside, which made a profound impact on his art.
The film takes a look into Jackson Pollock, an abstract expressionist artist living in New York City in the mid-1900s. Jackson is living with his brother and sister-in-law who are expecting a baby when he meets Lee Krasner (played by Marcia Gay Harden). Later
Crooked Beak of Heaven Mask is a big bird-figure mask from late nineteenth century made by Kwakwaka’wakw tribe. Black is a broad color over the entire mask. Red and white are used partially around its eyes, mouth, nose, and beak. Its beak and mouth are made to be opened, and this leads us to the important fact in both formal analysis and historical or cultural understanding: Transformation theme. Keeping that in mind, I would like to state formal analysis that I concluded from the artwork itself without connecting to cultural background. Then I would go further analysis relating artistic features to social, historical, and cultural background and figure out what this art meant to those people.
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
Clement Greenburg, a close friend of Miró who is also a critic, said that Miró’s art is based on ideas “of painting as an irrevocable two dimensional medium” (Munro 289). Greenburg also stated “Miró is known for his almost total lack of interest in political matters” (Munro 289). The only thing that really kept Miró interested was his people and their culture. What really shot Miró down was the Spanish Civil War, he stated that “I am not in favor of separatism. I am in favor of Spanish unity, European unity, and World unity.”
The article Artists Mythologies and Media Genius, Madness and Art History (1980) by Griselda Pollock is a forty page essay where Pollock (1980), argues and explains her views on the crucial question, "how art history works" (Pollock, 1980, p.57). She emphasizes that there should be changes to the practice of art history and uses Van Gogh as a major example in her study. Her thesis is to prove that the meaning behind artworks should not be restricted only to the artist who creates it, but also to realize what kind of economical, financial, social situation the artist may have been in to influence the subject that is used. (Pollock, 1980, pg. 57) She explains her views through this thesis and further develops this idea by engaging in scholarly
Mark Rothko, born as Marcus Rothkowitz, was born September 25, 1903 in Gvinsk, Russia and by the age of ten had emigrated to the United States with his parents. He attended Yale University in the early 1920's, but never completed his formal education there. In 1925 he entered studies at the Art Students League in New York City where he started painting under the instruction of Max Weber. Although he studied under Max Weber he still considered himself as basically a self-taught painter. In the 1930's and 1940's he went through phases influenced by Expressionism and Surrealism, but from about 1947 he began to develop his own distinctive style for which he is known for today. Critics labeled Mark Rothko as an Abstract Expressionist, but defiantly he argued this association by his peers, because he did not want to be known for a certain style. When Rothko started painting, his work was more symbolic than...
Pollock was born on January 28, 1912, in Cody, Wyoming. He died after driving drunk and crashing into a tree in New York in 1956, at age 44. His father, LeRoy Pollock, was a farmer and a government land surveyor, and his mother, Stella May McClure, was a fierce woman with artistic ambitions. The youngest of five brothers, he was a needy child and was often in search of attention that he did not receive.
Abstract art in comparison to realism, can be described as two art forms on opposite ends of the art style spectrum. Picasso and Pollock both had a massive impact on the outcome of modern art through their ability to challenge viewers as they interpret art, not for what the painting shows, but instead what the idea of it came from. Picasso’s painting is now an iconic symbol for an anti-war message, and Pollock’s painting now represent a form of freedom of speech and expression throughout America. Ultimately the reason artists moved from realism to abstract came from the invention of the camera, giving artist a reason to branch to new and edgy art forms, which will later create the modern art
I have chosen to critique the art masterpiece, Autumn Rhythm. Autumn Rhythm is oil on canvas, 8' 9" x 17' 3." It is my opinion, before you can critique Autumn Rhythm; you must try to understand the artist and his/her background. Artist Jackson Pollock was from a working class family who lived and worked in Wyoming, Arizona, and southern California. He studied at two different art schools; Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles and the Art Student's League in New York, he also studied with several other great artists during his time. However the artist experienced some dark days in his life. The artist fought the demon of alcoholism, and came face to face with his addiction. Stepping forward into the unknown, Pollock allowed his parents to place him in Jungian therapy. "Jungian therapy is centered on its helpful, hopeful and unique ways of experiencing the human mind. With due consideration of religion and the spirit of individuals, it also embraces the collective history of humanity. With its emphasis on individuation, wholeness and centering, there is a focus on the healthy elements of the human mind and soul and a search for balance. Pollock did not want to converse with his therapist about his problems and addictions, so his therapist suggested that he paint a piece of art that expressed his unspoken thoughts and feelings, (psychology of Carl G. Jung)." When the therapist would ask questions, Jackson would not reply, so the therapist devised a plan to help Jackson to get his feeling out in the open. He would have Jackson to create with paints on canvas how he was feeling on the inside then the Jungian therapist would analyze the artwork that Pollock brought to h...
The creative artist, Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. His father was a farmer, government land surveyor and his mother was an artist. He was the youngest out of five siblings. His dad left him at the age of eight and then his oldest brother, Charles became the father and showed Pollock art.
elements in his paintings. In this painting he wants to point out the process of the painting and his own emotional state rather than the content of it. He created such works because he wanted to create it regardless of what the critics said. This painting looks very spontaneous, depressing. disturbing and looks like as if it was painted by an automatic hand movement which is subconsciously. Even though he painted this in his subconscious still the threads of paint are balanced and offset by puddles of muted colors and by allover spattering. abstract art, such as Jason Pollock’s “Number 31,” seems much less formed than the art people had considered as art for so many centuries. People see Pollock’s work as a shower of misplaced and splatted