Jackson Pollock — Abstraction
Jackson Pollock was an abstract expressionism artist who also
was the first American painter that capturing the popular imagination.
Pollock was controversial. His paintings were avant garde, which were
more concerned about lines, form, shape, texture, and scale rather
than the narrative. Pollock produced the bodies of work which brought
with European tradition, and helped found the movement which made
Americans the new leaders of the international art work. In relation
of the image abstraction, one of his greatest paintings was his
Lavender Mist that produced in 1950. Lavender Mist is a very large

scale painting on canvas. He painted directly on the floor. Instead of
using a brush, he used a stick to pour the pigment directly on to the
canvas by using rhythmic drippings and markings to create his
painting. He interested in the improvisation to express his inner
feelings, and he focused more on the creative process with
experimenting the nature than the traditional technique skills. His
paintings were considered as the gestural abstraction artworks and a
modernism approach which applied pigment energetically as a form on
the canvas. Although the painting was created under the condition of
his collective unconscious, the viewer could still tell the artist’s
regular patterns that was designed and controlled in the painting. His
painting was clearly there to render the lines and structure with a
great calm and a quiet feeling. Unlike the traditional painters who
like to consider the subject matter, he considered the formal elements
more. Pollock thought that the process was more important than the
result so that every viewer had a different feeling after seeing this
masterpiece.
