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Abstract Expressionist:

Abstract Expressionist:. Jackson Pollock. Enduring Understanding. Students will understand how abstract art brought about new energies and dimensions in artistic creations. Essential Questions. Overarching How has abstraction affected our way of viewing art?

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  1. Abstract Expressionist: Jackson Pollock

  2. Enduring Understanding Students will understand how abstract art brought about new energies and dimensions in artistic creations.

  3. Essential Questions Overarching How has abstraction affected our way of viewing art? What can abstraction achieve that realistic art cannot? Topical What is the role of intuition in art making? How is it expressed in Pollock’s art?

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  5. The ArtistRelated life events to his art • 1912: Born in Cody, Wyoming. Grew up in Arizona and California • 1928: began to study painting at the Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles • 1930: Pollock moved to New York and studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League • 1934: Settled permanently in New York

  6. The ArtistRelated life events to his art • 1943: First solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery, New York. Guggenheim gave him a contract that lasted through 1947, permitting him to devote all his time to painting • 1945: Married artist Lee Krasner • 1952: Pollock’s first solo show in Paris • 1956:Killed in an automobile accident

  7. WHEN 1930 – Pollock moved to New York Jackson Pollock’s dependence on the Cubist grid system and Pablo Picasso has virtually dissolved, giving way to a more automatic and fluid expressive style. 1943 First solo show at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery, New York.

  8. WHERE New York City to East Hampton Visible effects of the move from New York City to the more rural environment of East Hampton were a lightening of palette and the introduction of themes alluding to nature. See Circumcision, 1946

  9. WHEN 1946 – Transitional period Jackson Pollock’s dependence on the Cubist grid system and Pablo Picasso has virtually dissolved, giving way to a more automatic and fluid expressive style. Winter of 1946–47 Started his poured paintings, Sounds in the Grass, a series of seven canvases.

  10. Arshile Gorky WHICH - SURREALISM Late 1930s The influence of Surrealists and other artists who fled Europe for New York in the late 1930s and the 1940s was integral to the development of Abstract Expressionism. Wolfgang Paalen

  11. WHICH - SURREALISM Joan Miro Late 1930s Like other members of the New York School, Jackson Pollock was influenced in his early work by Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, and seized on the Surrealists’ concept of the unconscious as the source of art. Pablo Picasso

  12. Joan Miro’s The Tilled Field, 1923-1924. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 1/2 inches

  13. Pollock The Moon Woman, 1942. Oil on canvas, 69 x 43 1/16 inches.

  14. Picasso Girl before a mirror, 1932. Oil on canvas, 162.3 x 130.2 cm

  15. Pollock Picasso

  16. Circumcision, 1946. Oil on canvas, 56 1/16 x 66 1/8 inches

  17. WHEN The 1950s and beyond “Drip period" Pollock began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and developed what was called his "drip" technique.

  18. WHICH - Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionism grew directly out of the meeting of American New York artists with European Surrealists self-exiled during World War II. This American art form, as Surrealism did, celebrated the instantaneous human act as the well-spring of creativity.

  19. WHICH - Abstract Expressionism Style • Lack of figuration and loose brushwork • Action Painting, coined by critic Harold Rosenberg, referred to the gestural act of painting, which he considered the artist’s unconscious expression or performance of some personal drama.

  20. HOW – Techniques and Materials The “drip” technique required paint with a fluid viscosity so Pollock turned to synthetic resin-based paints, called alkyd enamels.

  21. HOW – Techniques and Materials • Tacked unstretched unprimed canvas onto the floor instead of on the easel. • Using his entire body in the picture-making process that can be described as drawing in paint. • He poured streams of paint onto the canvas from a can with the aid of sticks and hardened brushes. • A typical Jackson Pollock drip piece could take months to complete as he would constantly re-work canvases, building up dense webs of patterns. By using this continuous dynamic technique, Pollock was able to simulate patterns that were similar to those that evolve in nature. • Action painting refers to a style that resembles performance art, whereby the artist freely lets go and unleashes emotion. It is in the performance of action painting that a plot is created by the artist. However, there is no central motif. Action painting tells a story without the use of a central image, merely through action.

  22. WHY Freedom to move, to be expressive “On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” “My painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface.”

  23. WHY • Using the Surrealist’s notions of chance and automatism to give full expression in these paintings. • The lines no longer serves to describe shape or enclose any forms. • The lines charts the movements of the artist’s body as he moves.

  24. WHY • It was about the movement of his body, over which he had control, mixed with the flow of paint, the force of gravity, and the way paint was absorbed into the canvas. • The mix of the uncontrollable and the controllable by flinging, dripping, pouring and spattering the paint. • Pollock energetically moved around the canvas almost like in a dance and would not stop until he saw what he wanted to see.

  25. Eyes in the Heat,1946. Oil and enamel on canvas, 54 x 43 in

  26. Pollock’s earliest poured paintings Enchanted Forest, 1947. Oil on canvas, 87 1/8 x 45 1/8 inches. Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

  27. Pollock’s earliest poured paintings Alchemy, 1947. Oil, aluminium, enamel paint, and string on canvas 45 1/8 x 87 1/8 inches Peggy Guggenheim Collection

  28. Untitled (Green Silver), 1949. Enamel and aluminium paint on paper mounted on canvas, 22 3/4 x 30 3/4 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

  29. Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist), 1950

  30. Perhaps the most compelling evidence of Pollock's dynamic involvement in the creation of Lavender Mist is the mark of his hands in the paint. These handprints not only serve as a primitive stamp of ownership and creativity, they also emphasize the flatness of the canvas, thus underscoring the non-illusionist nature of Pollock's art.

  31. References Books Friedman, B.H., Jackson Pollock : energy made visible, Da Capo Press, 1995, New York. Landau, Ellen G., Pollock, Thames & Hudson, 2005, London. Websites • http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/ • http://www.moma.org/ • http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_129_0.html

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