Jackson Pollock’s Art

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PROVIDE A FORMAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOLLOWING PAINTINGAND PROCESS OF THE AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST ARTIST, JACKSON POLLOCK, IN WHICH YOU…

• Specifically note at least 3 formal elements that significantly contribute to this work.
• Include a discussion of “action painting” and “all over-ness.”
• Offer at least 2 ways in which this painting’s style and Pollock’s method or process of painting isdifferent from previous traditions in Classical Western painting.
• Include an application of the following quote in your analysis, and some beginning ideas about how Pollock’s work relates to the philosophical ideas of Existentialism,which were becoming popular in American culture at this time:
  • “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyze or express an object, actual or imagined. What was to go onthe canvas was not a picture but an event.” — Harold Rosenberg
  • https://youtu.be/X3Uj_HAAvbk

video of Jackson Pollock in the process of painting

Jackson Pollock, “Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)” (1950, American Abstract Expressionism, enamel on canvas)

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