Jackson Pollock Abstract Expressionism

Remember when you were a little kid sitting in arts and crafts flinging paint with a paint brush onto white paper or even using your hands to paint unknown designs? Well my friends that method can be also known as Abstract Expressionism and in the 1940’s and 50’s it took off like wild fire. Although many proved to be Abstract Expressionists one triumphed them all, that one being, Jackson Pollock. Jackson Pollock is an important figure in the art world. He is known for starting a movement of abstract expressionism by using his body and motion to create huge pieces of art on large canvases. However, his leap from abstract art to figurative took us all by the reins into a new direction of who Jackson Pollock was and is. Jackson Pollock figurative works are representational but also show a deeper meaning and metaphor hiding within.
Jackson Pollock rose into fame with his abstract paintings “in the summer of 1950 with the completion of four magisterial canvases”, however with every high there comes a low and soon his abstract ways “failed him”. From then his return to figuration was vivid and Pollock’s old style of painting was back or as he put it, “some of my early images coming through” meaning that his style of using his full body leaning over a canvas to create the art would
The painting all together once you really look at it is actually very sad and dark because of the circumstances behind it. Pollock put himself in the painting not only mentally but physically with the fast gestures of his hand, the spit, and even his own cigarette ashes. He became this painting and this painting became him with the inner and outer self of the portrait and a