Untitled c.2022
I chose Jackson Pollock because I loved the energy, dynamic movement, and randomness from his paintings. I felt immediately drawn towards the wild, free energy that his paintings portrayed. I also liked how the drips, flows, and splatters of the paint on many of his art works were spontaneous but also controlled in an unique way. This makes his paintings even more unpredictable and enjoyable to me. Specifically, I chose to reinterpret Jackson Pollock’s painting called Untitled c. 1943. I found the painting in the MoMA Museum website.
My painting is a loose copy of that artwork. The original painting had somber paint colors of black, blue, grey, brown, and white on an off-white background. To make it my own, I reinterpreted this painting with more positivity and bright colors. I would keep the black background, but I want to add and use more variety of bright, colorful liquid paints. I reinterpreted this painting with colors that I found to be more cheerful, lively, and joyful.
There are five fascinating facts I learned about Jackson Pollock’s life and artistic process. One interesting fact I learned was his dedication to his paintings, for once he knocked down a wall to make his room large for a 20ft canvas. Another interesting fact is that his artistic style is called “drip painting” or “action painting”, which consisted of dripping and splashing liquid household paints onto a horizontally positioned canvas. Third, Pollock was married to Lee Kraser who was also an abstract expressionist painter like himself. I find it interesting that they both married someone in the same career field and art expression. A fourth interesting fact that I learned about Pollock was his reasoning for why he abandoned the use of names and titles for many of his paintings. Many of Pollock’s artworks had either odd names like “Number 7” or were left untitled because he wanted people to look at his paintings for what they truly were – purely painting. Numbers were neutral and they didn’t add figurative elements. I found his reasoning to be inspirational and quite exemplifying to the abstract expressionist art movement. The fifth interesting fact I learned was how Clement Greenberg, a historically well-known and significant art critic, personally organized Pollock’s first solo art show at Bennington College in 1952.
In full honesty, I loved so many art works that were blogged this semester by my classmates. Everyone’s drawings and paintings captured such a unique and beautiful expression. They were all priceless. While everyone’s work was inspirational to me, one work that captivated and comes to my mind is Sam Floyd’s surrealism drawing. I admire it because of the creativity and illusion it gave me. It portrayed the reality of nature. It depicted two different emotions to me: one that is giving and beautiful but also sadness and loss.











