Comparing Jackson Pollock And John Cage

Jackson Pollock and John Cage were both very big influences in their art field. Jackson Pollock was a painter and John cage was a music composer. Jackson Pollock made paintings that were an expression of his ego while John Cage wrote music that removed himself from the decision making. Their artistic styles may seem very different but they also had similarities. They both came from a European background and they both wanted to drastically change the art styles they belonged to. John Cage sought to compose music far different than the abstract expressionist music that had always been written. John Cage came to New York in 1942 with many new ideas that were inspired from his many friends who were painters. John Cage had once said that the point of art is to not have a point. What he means by this is you compose or paint what you feel like painting when you feel like painting without any restrictions.

Splatter painting is what his most famous artworks were made of. Pollock thought of his painting style as a new why of painting that expressed his inner mood and energy how he wanted. John Cage thought that Jackson Pollock and composers like Beethoven were fixed on creating an object. This object was a story or narrative of some sort. Jackson Pollock did not want to give up his control over the painting while John Cage thought that you should not control something or else you will not create anything new or exciting. John Cage used chance encounters to compose music that didn’t sound like it was written by a human but it was in fact one of these encounters. John Cage would compose his papers like an artwork letting chance choose where to put different parts. John Cage held a painting workshop in the Spring of