The painting Number 11, 1949 by Jackson Pollock is one of Pollock’s paintings from his famous “drip period.” The painting is large but not huge, it is about 45 inches tall and 47.5 inches wide, so it is a little bigger than the size of an old TV. This painting does not depict anything in particular. It is an abstract painting, there are no figures present. Instead of containing figures, the painting contains forms. The forms in the painting are created by the many layers of different colored Duco and aluminum paints. Pollock used many different colors- he used a mustard yellow, dark brown, white, light olive green, dark blue, rust red, light grey, beige, dark pinky red, forest green, and black. He dripped all of these colors on a canvas in what seems to be a very sporadic way.
When he painted the canvas was layer flat on the ground, so all the splatters do not drip down. There are not really very many brushstrokes visible, it appears that almost all the different colors of paint were dripped onto the canvas from above. The few …show more content…
With Jackson Pollock’s Number 11, 1949 one can see how the more spontaneous side of the movement went about expressing the chaotic process of painting as an art form. It focuses on the process and what is simply shown. On the other end of abstractionism we have pieces like Perle Fine’s In Staccato, where the lack of subject matter and the prevalence of geometric form and shapes becomes the new subject. Compairing two paintings that are technically a part of the same movement can be a very intriguing exercise because, as we can see by compainig theses two paintings, there can be huge differences in approach and style even when they both have similar goal of pushing past the traditional mindset or expectation of what can and can’t be the subject matter of a piece of fine
When he painted the canvas was layer flat on the ground, so all the splatters do not drip down. There are not really very many brushstrokes visible, it appears that almost all the different colors of paint were dripped onto the canvas from above. The few …show more content…
With Jackson Pollock’s Number 11, 1949 one can see how the more spontaneous side of the movement went about expressing the chaotic process of painting as an art form. It focuses on the process and what is simply shown. On the other end of abstractionism we have pieces like Perle Fine’s In Staccato, where the lack of subject matter and the prevalence of geometric form and shapes becomes the new subject. Compairing two paintings that are technically a part of the same movement can be a very intriguing exercise because, as we can see by compainig theses two paintings, there can be huge differences in approach and style even when they both have similar goal of pushing past the traditional mindset or expectation of what can and can’t be the subject matter of a piece of fine