An artist that I knew about even before viewing his work! Extremely well known and renowned around the work and especially amongst art students, I am actually only doing some research on him now. It was his work, and dripping paint technique that influenced some of my work where I dripped thick grey emulsion down across my previously heavily painted board.
He made the transition from using his wrist and hand to paint to using his entire body to pour paint from all possible angles onto the canvas.
Not only am i interested in pollocks works but also in his life. You can even see in his paintings a Part of his personality, which was said to volatile and and inconstant. It is thought that Pollock suffered from bipolar disorder, and was a heavy alcoholic. His paintings are chaotic and dark, which lighter spashes of brighter colours, which in my opinion may represent the different threads of moods and personas that he passes through in different stages of his life.
I forgot to mention that he was an American painter..
Before his movement towards drip painting, he did paintings such as Male and Female.
Then moved on rather abruptly from his surreal abstract works to a style often referred to as action painting
Pollocks work is a type of abstract that I admire, as he explains that he works from his conscious. He was criticized for not working from nature, to which his response was "I am nature". He explains that instead of expressing himself through illustration, he does it through the movement on the paint. He uses it as a medium of taking out frustration etc.
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