ARTH 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell
21 Sep 2016
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Aim express inner life through art. Technique free application of paint, no reference to visual reality, improvisation. Theory image not a result of preconceived idea but of the creative process. Action painting critic harold rosenberg: the canvas began to appear as an arena in which to act What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. The creation of the art is an event, often called action painting. Unconventional application of paint, usually without a recognizable subject. Dripping, smearing, spreading, flinging, slathering, and flinging lots of paint on to the canvas. Sometimes gestural writing in a loosely calligraphic manner. Carefully filling the picture plane with zones of color that create tension between the shapes and hues. Jackson pollock blue poles 1950 calligraphic, colourful and almost energized/animated. Created drip technique, large canvases and painted on the floor. Doesn"t reduce shapes but adds more emotions & ideas to it (anger, pain)
