Jackson Pollock was born in Wyoming, passed and most of his childhood in Arizona and his nomadic youth in California. The work of Pollock is very different from the improvisation and spontaneity of Abstract Expressionism was painting in which evocative fields of color hinted instead he made the physical act of painting and pour technique. Pollock transformed his interest in dynamic rhythms into a free, abstract style that had him working with his whole body in swirling gesture as he poured or flung paint onto the surface of his canvas. With a can of his paint in his hands, he moved freely, dripping, spilling, throwing the color, apparently with total abandon as he performed a kind of pictorial dance whose choreography is recorded on the
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Not until in 1948 did he develop an Abstract Expressionist style, he painted in a modern delicate, figurative manner. Kooning has used the techniques of New York Action Painting to make both abstract and the energetic intense images of massive women for which he is best know. His series of huge women was inspired in part by female models on advertising billboards, but the form suggest fertility figures, some to almost demonic women, ferocity and violent. He finally got his first one-person show at the Egan Gallery, when he was 44 years old. The radical works he presented were total abstraction of dramatically painted curvilinear lines and shapes that entirely covered the canvas with the same evenness seen in Pollock's all-over paintings.
Jackson Pollock's painting is one the most unique, liberated, invigorating, and complex because of his techniques and styles that makes it so impressive however, some of the viewers was not impressed and criticized his techniques and styles because of the uncontrolled impulse, lack of harmony, chaos and provoking manner. Willem Kooning viewers find his representation of woman subject is frightening, satiric and cruel however; some viewer perceived his art as human exploration and a possibility to further conduct with the extensive methods and techniques in painting. Their painting was constructed through a continuous process of reaction and emotion, feelings and uncontrollable
Not until in 1948 did he develop an Abstract Expressionist style, he painted in a modern delicate, figurative manner. Kooning has used the techniques of New York Action Painting to make both abstract and the energetic intense images of massive women for which he is best know. His series of huge women was inspired in part by female models on advertising billboards, but the form suggest fertility figures, some to almost demonic women, ferocity and violent. He finally got his first one-person show at the Egan Gallery, when he was 44 years old. The radical works he presented were total abstraction of dramatically painted curvilinear lines and shapes that entirely covered the canvas with the same evenness seen in Pollock's all-over paintings.
Jackson Pollock's painting is one the most unique, liberated, invigorating, and complex because of his techniques and styles that makes it so impressive however, some of the viewers was not impressed and criticized his techniques and styles because of the uncontrolled impulse, lack of harmony, chaos and provoking manner. Willem Kooning viewers find his representation of woman subject is frightening, satiric and cruel however; some viewer perceived his art as human exploration and a possibility to further conduct with the extensive methods and techniques in painting. Their painting was constructed through a continuous process of reaction and emotion, feelings and uncontrollable