JACKSON POLLOCK

Jackson Pollock world was coming apart and his painting echoes the emotional turmoil within his soul. Millions of us can look at his painting today and get an understanding that he was struggling with something in his life. This struggle however was bigger than him and was perhaps controlling him internally. However, his action painting style had no boundary and ignored all symbols and signs by reflecting the monstrous substance that had controlled him for years. His dripping style composition covers the entire canvas all the way to the edge of the painting. He structurally centralizes his overlapping dripping style at the center of the canvas which draw his viewer at the focal point of  “Lavender Mist”, which conveys a self-revelation time for Pollock with a hints of lavender scattered in different section of the painting. His epic style of dripping render Pollock’s to be one of the best action painter of his time. He was able to use his technique to undergo a battle within. On the other hand, Motherwell’s abstract painting showed more concern with the human conditions as a whole instead of self-revelation. In Motherwell’s “Elegy to the Spanish Republic” the flag that was geometrically located behind the human form emphasis human conditions and fatality. With that said, what Motherwell and Pollock had in common both were able to centralize their figure at the focal point of their painting to draw the viewer in. These two-man were able to express what they stood for and brought attention to their work.