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rustybreak:

Lavender Mist | Jackson Pollock | 1950

This quote might aid your understanding and appreciation of abstract expressionism. 

“At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than as a space in which to reproduce, re-design, analyse, or ‘express’ an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event.” - Harold Rosenberg  

kvetchlandia:

Jackson Pollock     She Wolf     1943

“It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.” Jackson Pollock, on his painting ‘She wolf.’

deadpaint:

Jackson Pollock, Number 20

kvetchlandia:

Hans Namuth     Dripping:  Jackson Pollock      1950

“I am nature.”  Jackson Pollock (1942), responding to painter Hans Hofman, who, noticing a complete lack of models and still lifes in Pollock’s studio, had just asked him if he “painted from nature.”

kvetchlandia:

Jackson Pollock     Number 4     1950

artknowledge:

Jackson Pollock - “Guardians of the Secret”

reblololo:

JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)
Untitled, c. 1949
Paper, enamel and aluminium paint on fiberboard
78,5 x 57,5 cm
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
© VBK, Wien 2010
Foto: Robert Bayer, Basel

arsvitaest:

Jackson Pollock, Echo - No. 25, 1951
MoMA, NYC

(via renzo dionigi)

bigfun:

Jackson Pollock - Lavender Mist Number 1, 1950.

art-it:

Jackson Pollock

bigfun:

Jackson Pollock - number 22a, 1948. (via the art of memory)