The Avant Garde is defined by Tate Gallery ‘As applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter’ (Tate) .This happened around the mid nineteen century when there was a huge rise in industrialisation and wealth in the western world. The world was opening up with machines taking over many jobs. Railways were been created on every continent. Ordinary people could go and explore many places. At the time there was a huge disaffection with the art world in its staid thinking that the past was all that was good in art. What the Avant Garde wanted to do was to say, no, that life was different than that and they wanted more than anything else to show the world as it was and not how it was
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Once in a while a life-like image appears in the painting by mistake. But Pollock cheerfully rubs it out because the picture must retain “a life of its own.” Finally, after days of brooding and doodling, Pollock decides the painting is finished, a deduction few others are equipped to make.( Slide …show more content…
His involvement with gestural painting, inspired partly by the sand painting of the American Indians and partly by Surrealism, culminated in his use from 1947 of a technique of dripping trails of paint onto a canvas laid flat on the floor’ (Tate)(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jackson-pollock-1785)
His pencil drawing War 1947 is the only drawing he ever titled. It shows the monstrous results of war by the strong graphic imagery. A lot of which is hidden by the linear motions, thick and dark with mounts of reds and yellow pencil. To add intensity. The narrative is of horrific proportions a bull and a human figure are to be seen at the top of the pile. A crucification of a figure hooded is suggested as this work engages with history of art and shows the horrors of war, it has a personal dimension the language of surrealism that fuelled his early work.
In Untitled 1951 he uses enamel paint and indian ink and graphite on paper. The gestural movement of this painting seems to be flowing within the confines of the paper. The power of this movement moves the view to want to lie down on it and touch and feel the power that he put into it. It is passion, life, light and movement all in
Once in a while a life-like image appears in the painting by mistake. But Pollock cheerfully rubs it out because the picture must retain “a life of its own.” Finally, after days of brooding and doodling, Pollock decides the painting is finished, a deduction few others are equipped to make.( Slide …show more content…
His involvement with gestural painting, inspired partly by the sand painting of the American Indians and partly by Surrealism, culminated in his use from 1947 of a technique of dripping trails of paint onto a canvas laid flat on the floor’ (Tate)(http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jackson-pollock-1785)
His pencil drawing War 1947 is the only drawing he ever titled. It shows the monstrous results of war by the strong graphic imagery. A lot of which is hidden by the linear motions, thick and dark with mounts of reds and yellow pencil. To add intensity. The narrative is of horrific proportions a bull and a human figure are to be seen at the top of the pile. A crucification of a figure hooded is suggested as this work engages with history of art and shows the horrors of war, it has a personal dimension the language of surrealism that fuelled his early work.
In Untitled 1951 he uses enamel paint and indian ink and graphite on paper. The gestural movement of this painting seems to be flowing within the confines of the paper. The power of this movement moves the view to want to lie down on it and touch and feel the power that he put into it. It is passion, life, light and movement all in