This dance – or more accurately, this Malritual – provided you the “dripping”, this color-on-canvas can dribble in the strict sense as a “painting” call – like Pollock took place in front of the camera. Photos and even movies documented from that time, what was the latest trend in art: the painting itself was already a work of art – the essence was not only what comes of it, but just as much the performance, the artists in action. Life magazine has named Pollock 1949 for “the greatest painter in the U.S.,” his friends called him “Jack the Dripper,” the so-called “Abstract Expressionism” was born.

A year later, Pollock represented with two other artists his country at the Biennale in Venice. The man was now a star and its giant images also let Vogue Cecil Beaton photograph models in front of his drip paintings, thus bringing together fashion and exhibitions of art: pop art for it was only a tiny step.

Jackson Pollock – played by Ed Harris in the movie Pollock

Farewell to brush and blackboard

Instead easel, palette and brushes used increasingly from 1946 to Pollock sticks, trowels, knives and liquid paint and mixed into the thick layers of paint in addition sand, broken glass and other heavy materials. It could be better and more stable in applying the horizontal. Sun Pollock admits in the winter of 1947 in an interview: “On the ground I feel more comfortable I feel closer to the image, more than a part of him, for so I can move around the image to work from all four sides. book and daily in the picture. With this method also work the Indian sand painters of the West

Quote Jackson Pollock

“I do not care about the label ‘Abstract Expressionism’. Certainly not, he is objective. Sometimes I am very objective, a little bit in any case always. But if you paint from the subconscious out, dive necessarily to Figueres. I guess we are all influenced by Freud. long I been a follower of Jung. Painting is a state that is self-discovery. Every artist paints what he is.

Painter “in the picture”

Now that the painter “in the picture” is a means to: Pollock was no longer his lying on the floor in front of pictures, but just from all four sides, by which he freed himself from the perspective view and produced an equality of all image elements. For others it means the discovery of the self in the picture: In the virtuoso, the rite stylized painting action is found and discovered that the artist himself: but so that not a finished picture exhausted its essence. Thus his pictures “without beginning or end” – what a critic once properly critical, but what Pollock conceived as a great compliment, because he saw himself as an artist himself and his art in the painting process itself was still new (er).
Springboard: European avant-garde

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Fascinated him, the Surrealists – especially Max Ernst and Miro, which brought the unconscious to the canvas. Because of his alcohol problems had been his 25th Pollock Years repeated in psychoanalytic treatment and for this reason alone interested in Freud and Jung. And most enduring but he took issue with Picasso – especially with his expressive works from the circle of “Guernica”. Picasso has come up with when painting this masterpiece in 1937 Incidentally, take pictures – even in the act of self-representation was the Spaniard Pollock’s idol. Unlike Picasso, who was very old, Pollock died much too young: mean 44 years after a car accident.