Autumn Rythm by Jackson Polloc
This 1950 painting by American artist Jackson Pollock marked the official creation of a new painting style called gesturalism or action painting. Pollock used arm motions to splatter, fling, and drip paint onto the canvas. He drew his inspiration from his feelings and emotions rather than from some tangible, visual source, and in the process created abstract, expressionist, (some would say kindergarten art project gone wild) art. Pollock's revolutionary method, where the process of artistic creation trumped the product, was hatched in the period immediately following the Second World War. It was an era of new possibilities in America, when jazz improvisation was flourishing, the Cold War was commencing, and the horror of the war had finally ended.Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. (World Biography, page 379). In 1930 he began to study at the Art Student's League in New York, with Thomas Hart Benton. Ten years later, Pollock had become an alcoholic and his worried parents sent him to a Jungian therapist. Pollock did not want to converse with his therapist about his problems and addictions, so his therapist suggested that he paint a piece of art that expressed his unspoken thought
Oddly, the barn did not provide enough room for his large canvas, so he was forced to place the canvas on the floor and paint on it from above. Yet another possibility is that it could represent the 50's beat generation, the idea of pushing to the edge of one's consciousness, which is similar to a painting's expansion to the edges of the canvas in such a way as to push on its boundaries. Each week during Pollock's therapy session, the Jungian therapist would analyze the artwork that Pollock brought to him using Jungian symbolism. However, the lasting symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin wall constructed as a boundary between East Germany and West Germany. " This painting is an excellent representation of the time period in which it was created. " In 1946, Pollock began to really explore the method of drip painting, and his efforts culminated in 1950 with his famous work Autumn Rhythm in which Pollock solely used linear abstractions to create art. This could be interpreted as representative of the expanse and influence of the West, especially as an after affect of World War II because the United States occupied so many countries in Western Europe. Pollock created them by sometimes slowly dripping the paint onto the canvas, and sometimes quickly flicking the wrist like the wind.
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