To view it just as a painting nothing more, nothing less, was Pollocks dream when he started to number his paintings instead of naming them. Number 1, aptly titled, displays Pollocks chaos, and his organized unconventional creativity.
Black, white, lavender, grey, and rust unite on this flatly laid out cloth to achieve an unimaginable union of thought with dance like action. Try to relax your eyes and you can see organized squares, reminiscent of a satellite map of a crowded city. Pollock as we all know was way ahead of his time, in technique, paint used and method but he could have never imagined his work to look like the city it came from.
Pollock used a technique known as action painting. He did not use brushes or knives just his hands and the inertia of the paint being dripped and dribbled on the canvas. All the twists and turns in the paint are recognizable as Pollocks own hands trying to maneuver the paint in to the direction it was intended.
The spontaneity of the artists strokes allows the freedom to recreate something unsatisfactory and use it to build on his color and shade, one drip at a time. Thus we can safely assume the rank in which he used his primary colors onto which he embellished his insanity. If were to go by the 2D image on record we can assume he dripped on rust, greylavender, white, and black.
The genius of the painting lies in the fact that there was no specific representation on the canvas. He let the paint decide the fate of this painting. The use of his hands instead of brushes and knives showed the world the possibility of another method of art. His creation of Lavender Mist without an actual hint of lavender in the painting shows the viewer that abstract art does not conform to any norms or rules. It runs free as the paint that is dribbled on the stationery canvas.
Jack the dripper as Pollock was commonly referred to in those days, he dipped his hands in the paint and drew an impression on the top right hand side of the canvas as cavemen did in ancient times. He used this technique to distinguish his art and his methods.
We can see a bold use of black and a darker grey strewn over the canvas as if to assert its testosterone over the timidly shaded lavender-grey.
The painting is a well balanced work of art, even though it was not painted with the help of brushes or knives. The artist manages to direct the paint in a manner which is very well balanced across the canvas, to show some sort of method to this madness and chaos. The painting does not look top heavy or otherwise, as equal attention has been paid to the entire canvas giving the feel of defined chaos.
Its impossible to summarize genius. We can only hope to achieve the state in which our own creativity cannot be confined to canvas, color or technique.
Black, white, lavender, grey, and rust unite on this flatly laid out cloth to achieve an unimaginable union of thought with dance like action. Try to relax your eyes and you can see organized squares, reminiscent of a satellite map of a crowded city. Pollock as we all know was way ahead of his time, in technique, paint used and method but he could have never imagined his work to look like the city it came from.
Pollock used a technique known as action painting. He did not use brushes or knives just his hands and the inertia of the paint being dripped and dribbled on the canvas. All the twists and turns in the paint are recognizable as Pollocks own hands trying to maneuver the paint in to the direction it was intended.
The spontaneity of the artists strokes allows the freedom to recreate something unsatisfactory and use it to build on his color and shade, one drip at a time. Thus we can safely assume the rank in which he used his primary colors onto which he embellished his insanity. If were to go by the 2D image on record we can assume he dripped on rust, greylavender, white, and black.
The genius of the painting lies in the fact that there was no specific representation on the canvas. He let the paint decide the fate of this painting. The use of his hands instead of brushes and knives showed the world the possibility of another method of art. His creation of Lavender Mist without an actual hint of lavender in the painting shows the viewer that abstract art does not conform to any norms or rules. It runs free as the paint that is dribbled on the stationery canvas.
Jack the dripper as Pollock was commonly referred to in those days, he dipped his hands in the paint and drew an impression on the top right hand side of the canvas as cavemen did in ancient times. He used this technique to distinguish his art and his methods.
We can see a bold use of black and a darker grey strewn over the canvas as if to assert its testosterone over the timidly shaded lavender-grey.
The painting is a well balanced work of art, even though it was not painted with the help of brushes or knives. The artist manages to direct the paint in a manner which is very well balanced across the canvas, to show some sort of method to this madness and chaos. The painting does not look top heavy or otherwise, as equal attention has been paid to the entire canvas giving the feel of defined chaos.
Its impossible to summarize genius. We can only hope to achieve the state in which our own creativity cannot be confined to canvas, color or technique.
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