Jackson Pollock Analysis

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Getting to Know Jackson Pollock Understanding Jackson Pollock as a person can help one understand him as artist, in turn helps one to understand and analyze his paintings. A comparison of Autumn Rhythm and Portrait and a Dream will reveal how Jackson Pollock expressed himself louder than other artists through his form of abstraction. Each of these paintings will also reveal a lot about his connection to himself and his demons and his struggle with verbal expression. An analysis of them will also explain his approach to both different yet methodical. They will reveal the time and dedication in each as well as how he could express himself without saying a word. Pollock is known worldwide for his drip, or what others call his splatter paintings. However, he had made a name for himself in the world of abstraction several years before he created his splatter paintings. Pollock studied at the Art Students League in New York where he created abstract landscape works such as Going West and The Covered Wagon. Pollock also studied and made paintings that had strong resemblance to the style of Pablo Picasso such as Man with a Knife and Woman. Pollock was also influenced by his friends Clement Greenbery and Williem de Kooning. However, the time spent with his teacher Thomas Hart Jung and undergo therapy. Jung specialized in a treatment known as Jungian Therapy. In the beginning, Pollock had a lot of trouble verbally expressing himself to Dr. Jung so rather than verbally doing so Dr. Jung encouraged him to paint his emotions. During these treatments, Pollock became very aware of his subconscious, which also made him very aware of psychic automatism which moved him to understand and study the dreamscape style form of painting known as surrealism. Helen Gardner and Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's art through the ages: a global history (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2013),

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