Compare and Contrast: “Number 1” and “The Starry Night”
Glancing at the two pieces of art from two totally different time periods, you would imagine that there is no possibility that they have even the slightest similarity to each other. Yet, many factors pertaining to the artists Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh are similar. Certainly, the content of the art and history behind it are different, but the feelings each artist put into their paintings have a stunning resemblance. Subsequently, both artists have created a legacy for themselves
On August 8, 1949, an American artist by the name of Jackson Pollock was introduced to the public through a four-page article in LIFE. Although he had published his previous works before the publication …show more content…
Located in the National Gallery of Art in Los Angeles, California, it was created in 1949 by Pollock. In New York City, he used a large canvas which nearly covered the floor of his studio and promptly dripped, flung, and poured oil and enamel paint from the end of his loaded paintbrush and even sticks while walking around it. The paint was laid on the surface of the canvas very thickly. This is a technique known as impasto. He stated that walking around his painting helped him pose as a medium throughout the creative process. This piece of art was an abstract expressionist non-objective or better known as abstract art. Abstract art depicts no specific person, place, or thing in the natural world. Around this time, Pollock stopped giving his art names and instead, gave them numbers. Later, his wife, Lee Krasner elucidated, “Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a painting for what it is—pure painting.” In 1939, Pollock began receiving treatments from a Jungian analyst to treat his alcoholism that he had suffered from all throughout his life (starting at the age of 15). The analyst encouraged him to create drawings. I believe the analyst inspired him to pour not only his own mind’s terrors of alcoholism but to also incorporate expressions from humanity’s own terror—World War II. Yet, others believe that it was both the artists and the art movements he studied and worked with. The …show more content…
He was a proficient post-impressionist painter in the late 1800s. He was famously known for his vivid colors and his emotional impact of his paintings. The painting was actually painted from van Gogh’s room at an asylum he had submitted himself into. The only thing missing in his painting were the bars covering his window. However, van Gogh was not always known for his art. Shortly before the Christmas of 1888, van Gogh took a razor blade and cut his ear off after being in an intense argument earlier on. He then wrapped his severed ear into a cloth and presented it to a local prostitute. The prostitute was so shocked she fainted and later alerted the
Glancing at the two pieces of art from two totally different time periods, you would imagine that there is no possibility that they have even the slightest similarity to each other. Yet, many factors pertaining to the artists Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh are similar. Certainly, the content of the art and history behind it are different, but the feelings each artist put into their paintings have a stunning resemblance. Subsequently, both artists have created a legacy for themselves
On August 8, 1949, an American artist by the name of Jackson Pollock was introduced to the public through a four-page article in LIFE. Although he had published his previous works before the publication …show more content…
Located in the National Gallery of Art in Los Angeles, California, it was created in 1949 by Pollock. In New York City, he used a large canvas which nearly covered the floor of his studio and promptly dripped, flung, and poured oil and enamel paint from the end of his loaded paintbrush and even sticks while walking around it. The paint was laid on the surface of the canvas very thickly. This is a technique known as impasto. He stated that walking around his painting helped him pose as a medium throughout the creative process. This piece of art was an abstract expressionist non-objective or better known as abstract art. Abstract art depicts no specific person, place, or thing in the natural world. Around this time, Pollock stopped giving his art names and instead, gave them numbers. Later, his wife, Lee Krasner elucidated, “Numbers are neutral. They make people look at a painting for what it is—pure painting.” In 1939, Pollock began receiving treatments from a Jungian analyst to treat his alcoholism that he had suffered from all throughout his life (starting at the age of 15). The analyst encouraged him to create drawings. I believe the analyst inspired him to pour not only his own mind’s terrors of alcoholism but to also incorporate expressions from humanity’s own terror—World War II. Yet, others believe that it was both the artists and the art movements he studied and worked with. The …show more content…
He was a proficient post-impressionist painter in the late 1800s. He was famously known for his vivid colors and his emotional impact of his paintings. The painting was actually painted from van Gogh’s room at an asylum he had submitted himself into. The only thing missing in his painting were the bars covering his window. However, van Gogh was not always known for his art. Shortly before the Christmas of 1888, van Gogh took a razor blade and cut his ear off after being in an intense argument earlier on. He then wrapped his severed ear into a cloth and presented it to a local prostitute. The prostitute was so shocked she fainted and later alerted the