Example - 1

Autumn Rhythm • Autumn Rhythm is 207 inches

wide.
(1950)
• It assumes the scale of an
environment, enveloping both for
the artist as he created it and for
viewers who confront it.

• Its dynamic visual rhythms and

sensation's buoyant, heavy,
graceful, arcing, swirling, pooling
lines of color are direct evidence
of the very physical choreography
of applying the paint with the
artist's new methods.

• In this nonrepresentational picture, thinned paint was

applied to unprimed, unstretched canvas that lay flat on the
floor rather than propped on an easel.

• Poured, dripped, dribbled, scumbled, flicked, and

splattered, the pigment was applied in the most unorthodox
means
Example - 2
Blue Poles(1952) • Type - Enamel and aluminium
paint with glass on canvas

• The painting has become one of

the most popular exhibits in the
gallery, for both its value as a
major work of 1950s abstract
expressionism as well as its
significance in Australian politics
and history.

• For Australians, the purchase of

Blue Poles is still frequently cited
by the Labor Party faithful as
proof of the wisdom of Gough
Whitlam.

• Blue Poles, originally titled Number 11, is an abstract

expressionist painting and one of the most famous works by
Jackson Pollock.

• It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of

Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major
holdings.
 PAINTING TECHNIQUES

• Jackson Pollock used a style where he would allow the paint

to drip from the paint can.

• Instead of using the traditional paint brush, he would add

depth to his images using knives, trowels, or sticks.

• This form of painting, had a direct relation to the artist's

emotions, expression, and mood, and showcased their feeling
behind the pieces they designed.

• The artist also used sticks, trowels, knives, in short,

anything but the traditional painter's implement to build up
dense, lyrical compositions comprised of intricate skeins of
line.

• This art form avoids any clear and distinct points of

emphasis, or any identifiable parts within the canvas being
used to create the piece.

• Many of the pieces which Jackson Pollock created following

this style, required him to trim or crop the canvas, in order
for the image to fit in, and to work with the overall features
of the art.
JACKSON POLLOCK
• He was widely noticed for his
technique of pouring or splashing
liquid household paint on to a
horizontal surface (‘drip
technique’), enabling him to view
and paint his canvases from all
angles.

• It was also called ‘action

painting’, since he used the force
of his whole body to paint, often
in a frenetic dancing style
• Jackson
Pollock (January 28, 1912
August 11, 1956) was
an American painter. • To produce in Jackson Pollock's
'action painting', most of his
• He became famous for canvases were either set on the
painting in the abstract floor, or laid out against a wall,
expressionist style. rather than being fixed to an easel

• Pollock's most
famous paintings were • Instead of using the traditional
made by dripping and paint brush, he would add depth
splashing paint on a large to his images using knives,
canvas. trowels, or sticks.
 FAMOUS WORKS

The She-Wolf (1943) Lavender Mist (Number 1)

Museum of Modern Art, (1950)
New York. National Gallery, Washington DC.

Mural ( 1943 )
Convergence (1952) University of lowa Museum of
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, NY. Art, lowa city
 CHARACTERISTICS OF ARTIST

• In the drip paintings Pollock eliminated all symbols and

signs; only the gesture itself remained as a mythic
metaphor.

• He used the technique to express rather than to

excavate; he translated the act of painting itself into an
adventure of self-realization.

• Intuitively the viewer can feel the process by which Pollock

made the drip compositions and imagine the sensation of
moving freely across the canvas along with the gestures of
paint.

• Pollock's drip paintings demand that the viewer surrender

intellectual control while freely empathizing with the
energetic colour and movement.