Jackson Pollock

Question 1

Two artworks

Answer 1

Blue poles (number 11)
Cathedral

Question 2

What is blue poles about? Year?

Answer 2

Pollock explores Jungian psycho analysis – the idea of collective consciousness that humans share – through structural aspects. Pollock conveys his idea of the collective consciousness through colour, lines, scale and symbolic elements
1952

Question 3

What materials are used in blue poles?

Answer 3

The artwork uses oil, enamel and aluminium paint and fragments of glass that is in bedded into the many layers
Uses blue, orange, yellow and red

Question 4

How large is the artwork and what is its affect? Blue poles and cathedral

Answer 4

Blue poles: 212.1 x 488.9 cm
Cathedral: 180.3 x 89 cm
The scale of the artwork allows the viewer to be in golfed into the artwork and discover the deeper meaning

Question 5

Colour and paint techniques of blue poles?

Answer 5

The blue poles is a contradicting sight – in comparison to the colourful splashes of paint – which create resting places for the viewer’s eyes.
The spider like splatters cover the canvas creating a sense of frenzy for the viewer further enhancing Jungian psycho analysis

Question 6

What is cathedral about? Year?

Answer 6

Cathedral shows Pollock’s subconscious and mental state
This can be observed through the sense of rawness and the lack of a structured composition
1947

Question 7

Cathedral materials?

Answer 7

Enamel and aluminium paint on canvas

Is black and white with slight hints of yellow and orange

Question 8

Colour and paint techniques of cathedral?

Answer 8

He creates complex, web like splatters that overlap, intercept and join on the overflowing field of paint. The spider like splatters and the surface is texture create a sense of unity and rhythm, allowing the viewers eyes to bounce of the various aspects of the work

Question 9

What frame does he relate to?

Answer 9

Post modern, structural
World
Unique practice