But consider this what if you were looking at music, unfolding in front of you. Abstract, spontaneous compositions , void of imposing structures, but still harmonious and fluid — Jazz!
Pollock loved this music form with all its creative energy, experimentation, strength and freedom. Next time you see one of his paintings, move beyond the simple paint markings on a canvas, but try to see a single note of sound unraveling in thick and thin, straight and curved, colorful and monochrome dripped lines. View slideshow. At this point, he began to drip and pour different types of paint over unprimed canvases tacked to his studio floor. The artist would walk all over the canvas, holding a paint can in one hand and a brush in the other.
This dripping technique was used to create Autumn Rhythm. Although the painting appears completely abstract, the artist drew human forms in each of the three main sections of the work. These forms were eventually buried under the unordered lines and paint blobs, but their presence indicates Pollock's continued impulse towards the figurative despite the apparent spontaneity of the work. The final work appears as an altogether abstract composition with no obvious focal point.
The painting is a network of lines and splats. Pollock began by spreading a thin black line across the canvas and then added to the composition with broad strokes of beige and white. The superimposition of lines moving in various, unordered directions causes restlessness and chaos. The edges of the canvas are left bare and untouched, they create a type of frame for the work and provide some balance and stability.
Autumn Rhythm conjures up a sense of cosmic forces which are constantly moving without beginning or end. Google Classroom Facebook Twitter.
This is 17 feet wide and he originally titled it "Number 30" but then later "Autumn Rhythm. And for some reason to me today in the midst of the pandemic, less than two weeks before a presidential election, I feel like I might be projecting some of my own darkness into this painting that I know is painted in , just five years after the end of World War II.
These were issues that were dominant in the post-war moment. The atomic bombs were threatening in a way that had never happened before in human history. The enormity of the Holocaust had been revealed only a few years earlier. I can imagine there was a sense for artists that a new language was needed to express this post World War II era and that the old systems of naturalism coming out of the Renaissance was not a language that was viable given the new circumstances.
They were looking for something that was more profound, that was able to grapple with existential issues, issues of human existence and the potential extinguishing of human existence.
It goes back even to Dada, that the conscious rational mind got in the way, that it was antithetical to the creative impulse, that if we could somehow step out of the way and allow something more elemental, more unintentional to come to the fore, that would somehow be more truthful and more universal. What we're seeing is a high point in modern art, where artists were stepping away from the representation of nature, something that had been central to the making of art, this interest in something that was not abstract in nature, but it was purely abstract.
It's radicality can't be overstated. This was completely upending the traditions of image-making. He's turning away from the representation of nature and looking into himself, his own physical movements, his own emotional state at this specific moment in time. It's a relatively small space. This is an enormous canvas, he unrolled it on the floor. He didn't prime it, he didn't add gesso. He didn't seal the surface. He painted directly on the raw canvas, but I can't say even that he painted it, he didn't touch the canvas with his brush.
He moved over the canvas and let paint fall on it. For centuries, whenever an artist painted, not only did they prime the canvas, but they most often prepared drawings, organize the composition, thought it through. There was a real intentionality and consciousness.
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