The first paining of Jackson Pollock I ever saw was at the Brooklyn Museum. It, like the majority of his paintings was painted with the splatter plate technique. I was unimpressed to say the least. I thought it was boring, not special, and took little to no talent. But as I found out more about Pollock, and where is paintings came from, and there meaning I realized how truly special all his paintings were. They are filled with emotion and elements, and moments in his life. Although the paintings may seem like there was no talent involved in making these paintings, if you look closely, there are all kinds of details mixed in throughout his paintings.
Jackson Pollock grew up on a farm in a small town in Wyoming. He went to school for art in 1929, but had a really hard time with drawing. His brother was a famus artists, none for his drawings, so there was a lot of pressure on him. In the late 30’s he was introduced to the work of Picasso and learned that not all art had to be straight lines and pictures. He decided to try more surreal art, which he ended up succeeding with. Everything involved with Pollock’s work, was very untraditional. He used untraditional materials (not paintbrushes, and pencils), painted on the floor, and his final product was always very unique, he would even walk on his paintings.
The painting a choose to look at is called Mural. It is one of Pollock’s more famous paintings, and is extremely well known. This painting comes from many different roots. Some if it being other artists, and paintings he was inspired by, and some of it being events from his past. One major thing that this is based on his Native American stories. When he was a kid, a Native American neighbor would tell them stories from her heritage. The color base, and other elements of the painting come form this. (Jackson Pollock)
Although as many people look at this, all they see is a bunch of different colored squiggly lines, if you look closely there is much more in it. While I was first looking at this, I noticed that the majority of the colors were very natural and earthy. As I looked closer I noticed that there seemed to be bird shaped lines all over the painting. As I looked even closer than that I noticed I saw that the painting has letters all over it, and the letters spell out Jackson Pollock. I think Pollock personally hid his name in the painting, so as not to distract from the rest of it, but to make you look at it really closely. In order to even see his name in the painting, you have to look extremely close, so I think part of the reason he hid it, was so people looked further into it, and noticed all the other details. (Decoding Jackson Pollock)
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