Jackson Pollock

Below is a painting by Jackson Pollock I gotta tell ya, I don’t get it. In fact, one day I tracked oil and brake fluid into my house and it mixed with blood from a scrape on my finger and befouled my carpet. …

And why fascists hate it “Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way to the German people.” This quote is pulled from a speech by Adolf Hitler in July 1937. He said this…

I’m a big fan of Jackson Pollock, but I don’t use his drip painting technique. Instead, I mix acrylic paints with water and pour paint onto my canvas. Acrylic pouring is a beautiful liquid painting method in which the acrylic paint is poured into each other or tilted onto the canvas and disseminated by tilting the painting surface. It is a great way to create a unique piece where multiple colours and textures are used to create one cohesive piece of art.

I recently watched “Pollock”, a film that depicts the rise of the famous painter Jackson Pollock and how his wife Lee Krasner helped him. Before watching this film, I only knew Pollock’s work and technique. I didn’t know much about his personal life and, more importantly, I didn’t know Lee Krasner and…

August 11th For a long while, I thought Jackson Pollock (who died on this day 66 years ago) was an embodiment of all that was wrong with modern art. The sheer incomprehensiveness, an inside joke, a secret club with esoteric knowledge needed to even have any idea about it, and…

Jackson Pollock was an American painter who was born on January 28, 1912 and died on August 11, 1956. Pollock was nurtured by Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, surrealism, North American indigenous art and Mexican muralism. However, when hearing the name of this artist, the first thing that comes to mind is…

When they perform fractal analysis of Jackson Pollock’s paintings, a remarkable discovery is made. Lo and behold! The paint drippings and tossings are not random. (No more than were the Chinese paint flingings over a millennium ago.) There is an underlying order and purpose. A plan. Why can’t it be said that the paintings were Guided? Not by Pollock, but through him. Every instance of every act of Creativity. Every drop of paint that appears to fall accidentally on the canvas. All Guided, all Intended, all Meant — according to the Karmic Plan.