Response to Pollock Movie

1. Describe the evolution of Pollack's artwork. What stages did he go through in making painting?

At the beginning of the movie, Pollock painted it abstractly just like one of his inspiration artists, Picasso. He used regular paint brush and sometimes straight from the paint ellipse containers on the canvas of strong lines, primary colours and abstracted figures. Later on, he fined a new technique of abstract art where he drip, splash and guide the paint to create lines without touching the surface of the canvas. Also, the artworks of his dripping method are often painted with no figure or any purpose.


2. DeKooning, Picasso, Kandinsky and Lee Krasner-Pollock's wife were artists that influenced Pollack's work. Look them up on the internet and post why you think that he was influenced by them.

DeKooning and Pollack both use fast paint strokes, various colours and often paint abstractly to make their artwork more outstanding. Picasso is one of Pollock’s inspiration artists where Pollock tried to paint cubism like Picasso but at the sometime he added his own style to his artwork to make it his own. The similarity between Lee Krasner and Pollock are that they both paint abstractly except Lee Krasner then to have a purpose of object on her painting but Pollock did not.


3. Pollack often has a non-objective subject matter to his work-that is there is no issue or idea behind a painting other than the tenants of the elements of design. How might you use his painting style to describe a social issue? Comment.

His painting could be use to describe pollution or environmental concerns, since his strong and sometimes various size brush strokes created a messy and destructed environment feeling. Also, when he used only black and white paints could create the pollution issue where there is only greyness left to the world if humans do not do anything about the problem.


4. By watching the movie did you gain an appreciation for abstract or non-objective painting. Would you like to do it yourself-why or why not?

I did gain an appreciation for abstract art. I always think abstract painting is meaningless and boring, but after the movie I learned that in abstract painting there are different styles and methods which are really interesting. Also, even though abstract painting does not have a purpose, it actually makes the viewers think about what the painting is creating and with imagination it could have a deep purpose and message to the artwork.