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Olga_K March 14, 2019

Jackson Pollock Works,

Elements of Art History and

Graphic Expressions

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JACKSON POLLOCK

The greatest exponent of action painting is undoubtedly

American Jackson Pollock, whose life crumbled, severed first hard by

a car accident, is linked to  the bohemian artists.

Pollock, one of the few artists of the last post-war period had one

fairly irregular training, reluctantly dragged between various academies and

American arts schools. From the beginning he is very much affected by the charm of the

Mexican popular painting. In 1937 Pollock is already severely affected

by alcoholism, thanks to the scientific theories of Carl Gustav Jung, together with Freud

one of the fathers of modern psychoanalysis, the young artist knows the latest

European cultural avant-gardes.

In 1947 POLLOCK developed the dripping technique which means

dripping.This technique consists in using the brush no longer to paint

but to drip in a more or less regular way pure synthetic colors on canvas or

cartons.

ENCHANTED FOREST  In Enchanted Forest, a dripping on canvas by

1947, the visionary and allusive subject merges with the new technique into a single one

spider web of colors that overlap the others in a chaotic plot of

splashes of drops and dripping.

In 1950 the German friend and photographer Hans Namuth

realizes some extraordinary photo shoots that portray Pollok at work while

he performed his drippings with almost dance-like movements often accompanied by a

background of jazz music. Some of these moments of creativity were then

rebuilt in a hit movie, starring in 2000 by the actor and Harris.

SILVER ON BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW AND RED The title suggests a

reading path relative to the times of realization. The dripping of the silver tint is

it was the last to be executed as it overlaps with all the other colors either

when the colorings thicken in Wide spots and when they melt in

1000 filaments that pervade and fill the entire space of the canvas.

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BLUE POLES  In the blue poles made by the artist in 1953 you have an even more idea

specify what dripping really is. Working around the canvas arranged for

earth, in the large chaotic New York studio on Long Island, Pollock prepares it

splashing it with cotton balls, with paint brushes and pieces of

wood. Using, Synthetic colors at different dilutions flow them onto the canvas creating

thin red, silver and yellow threads that thicken, creating greater areas

or less concentration. In this chaotic labyrinth It is permissible that each one

imagine what he wants: from the monstrous American megalopolis, where men and

skyscrapers concentrate in a foolish way, up to the deepest regions of the

our unconscious, where there are nightmares and mysteries that get tangled. The blue poles

correspond to the eight inclined segments that cover the entire painting. They

they represent the last geometric elements, around which the convulsion thickens

siege of colorful drips.

EASTER AND THE TOTEM Always in 1953 Also dates back to Easter and the totem, one

large canvas with which Pollock abandons the experience of dripping back to the

oil painting. Here the tormented American artist seems to refer to Matisse, with

the use of black contours, They assume strong expressive purposes. Pollock gets closer

also to the form, even if absolutely not figurative, recalled by the element

vertical to the extreme left margin of the painting, which refers to the totem of the title e

consequently to the native American culture.

FRANZ KLINE

The abstract expressionism of Franz Klein is mold-set. Born

in Pennsylvania On May 23, 1910, he studied at the University of Boston and attended

in London, the Heatherley art school. He then settles in New York with his wife Parsons.

In the 40s  the three in contact with Pollock and with abstract expressionism. He died on

May 13, 1962.

At the beginning

from the 50s Klein cancels all colors and dedicates himself to large-format works in

black and white. Klein traces titanic lines that cross to represent the

typical American cities with skyscrapers, regular blocks, structures, bridges and buildings in

construction.

NEW YORK   This is a large format from 1953 where three dark verticals and three

oblique directions suggest steel architectural structures, piles of bridges,

modernity.

DIAMOND This is an oil from 1960 that is based on white and blue

dominant with light touches of blue and sky blue. While not abandoning the duotone,

the whole chromatic range slowly emerges just like the psyche and the most intimate

thoughts and artist kept for a long time imprisoned and Hidden by the speaking speaker

of appearing black and white could not be more repressed. initially Kline

incorporates the color under white and black, giving a glimpse of it a bit, for

explore the possibilities of monochrome until you reach the colors.

NEW MEDIA ART  Starting from the last decade of the last century, numerous

labels have been coined to describe classifying a number of artistic practices

generated by the digital revolution: Multimedia Art, Interactive Art, Art

digital, computer art. Today all these different denominations tend to be

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gathered under the definition of New media art, which therefore embraces the whole

range of artistic forms based on the use of new media.

They are extremely different, being linked to different technologies

employed, constantly changing due to the continuous technological progress, which

starting from the computer with all software applications and the Web, go through i

video games and up to smartphones and tablets.

All the categories are not rigidly defined, because, as far as they can

combine or synchronize with one another on a planetary level, via network or Wirefire,

generating numerous other communication tools, such as dissemination and interaction

multimedia portals, blogs and social networks. While using more technology

advanced, the new media art is inscribed in the tradition in the art world in the way

more aware.

New artistic practices and are based on the concept of interaction with the

public, which can participate in various ways in the work thanks to the interface

technology. Also revolutionary are the methods of distribution of the work, which to

contrary to that achieved with traditional means, it is accessible in any

moment from anywhere.

PETER ROSTOVSKY  He was born in Lieningrad in 1970 but trained in the United States

by attending various design and applied arts schools. Great manipulator of

photographs, digital techniques and computer art the young artist  is part of the trend of

supereal, one of the latest neo-avant-garde. Going beyond hyper realism

he proposes to explore the super real, ie a mental dimension, that taking the subject

moved by a photographic representation, it re-elaborates it and enriches it according to the

intentions and sensitivity of the artist.

A this new dimension of research is approached with great technical mastery,

preferring fantastic magical or realistic macabre figurations.

EPIPHANY 2                                                                                 Is

a static installation of 2001 composed of a large circular canvas on which it is

painted a fiery sky of clouds at sunset with a front statuette of a

character looking ecstatic. This small sculpture is placed on a white pedestal.

This painting recalls the Wayfarer by the sea of ​​fog by Caspar David

Friedrich. Tthe reinterpretation of Rostovsky  is full of evocative charm

returning to the idea of ​​the sublime.

PIERRE HUYGHE Parisian born in 1962 deals with installation of video Art,

a form of artistic expression affirmed in the last decade of the last century e

based on the use of electronic means, creatively exploiting the infinite

possibilities offered by the digital technology of synthesized sound, reproducible by

medium of video projectors.

THE SPARKLING EXPEDITION Du made in 2002, and is a machine

capable of combining light effects and extraordinary sounds through computers

refinement. Two large parallelepiped containers are arranged one above the other

in a room with illuminated black walls. The inferior produces water vapor that

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slowly rises to the top. In the upper part there are light sources

halogens and LEDs. Four speakers speakers batteries are connected to the containers

repeating a piece of music. As the notes change, they change the