The time where Modern Art is ‘trop cher’ for the common folks like you and me is far behind us. With this generator for Jackson Pollock look-alike art by Miltos Manetas, you can design your very own masterwork and if you press ‘print screen’ in time and paste the screen in Photoshop, you can easily have it optimized and printed to frame it and decorate your living room to create that super-modern loungy feeling. Cool.
“Who is Jackson Pollock?”
Jackson Pollock created so-called ‘drip paintings’. A very cool and surreal way to display feelings and emotions. He began painting with his (often very large) canvases on the floor, and developed what was called his “drip” (or his preferred term, “pour”) technique. He used his brushes as implements for dripping paint, and the brush never touched the canvas. Pollock’s technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term Action Painting.
My painting does not come from the easel. I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
I continue to get further away from the usual painter’s tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.
When I am in my painting, I’m not aware of what I’m doing. It is only after a sort of ‘get acquainted’ period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
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Stephanie Clemmer
April 10, 2007 at 3:28 pm
i really like pollock’s drip paintings
marc
October 5, 2007 at 8:41 pm
pollock uses such vibrant colours that should never be positioned next to eachother. breaks all the rules and still brings me to tears. how come he produces tones with like just one colour (in this case blues)? legend
Bellz
October 30, 2007 at 11:05 pm
i’m doing an artist report on Pollock, and i have found him very interesting- his past and his work. i never thought i’d like paintings at all, but i do like abstract expressionism now because of him. he’s an inspiration to me. thanks, Pollock!