Jackson Pollock's Pasiphae Essay

When Jackson Pollock's career began to take sail, the artist sat down and answered questions about his art at a special place in the new American art scene. Without any doubt, Pollock's work has invented a new pictorial language not only in America, but also became the newest Avant Garde in the world. When talking about Pollock, the term action painting or drip painting has become the peak of his cereer; however, such success came from a tremendous stylistic development before 1947. The work such as Pasiphae (1943) informed a expressive style that was much different from his drip painting, yet still brought a new radical vision into the abtraction movement. This paper is an analytical comparation to Pollock's perception of painting from his time and how his view is manifested later movements in 20th Century.
Jackson Pollock painted Pasiphae in 1943, and it became one of the prominent work in his first man show. The painting is relatively large in term of scale, and strucked audiences by its chaostic composition of color, shape. There is not a single interpretation that can describe the painting's visual nor meaning. Moreover, it looks as a whole piece of imagery, comprised by vertical lines the two ends and horizontal shape …show more content…
The work hinted a well-known mythological meaning that are based on the figures in the composition; even the title "Pasiphae" obviously stated Pollock's intention of incorporate a second layer of complexity within the canvas. Although the painting's tittle resonates the context of greek mythology, [I think] Pollock never had the intention to use its mythological meaning. If the mean of icongraphy was heavily rendered with careful spatial perspective, the painting would have been a step backward into the Renaissance period but with a radical twist as similar as Bosch's Garden of Earthy