Jackson Pollock

Which artist had the greatest influence on Jackson Pollock?

• Pablo Picasso

• Joan Miro

• Roy Lichtenstein

• Dan Flavin

Q1. Which of the following did NOT inspire Jackson Pollock to explore a range of styles of artistic expression?

• Contemporary Mexican Murals

• Surrealism

• French Impressionistic Paintings

• Navajo Sand Paintings

Why did Pollock's drip paintings cause a sensation in the art world?

• It was a completely new and innovative method

• People did not like it and did not consider it art

• He was the most famous of all of the artists exploring with drip painting at the time

• He had a very large display at the National Art Gallery that made him immediately famous

Who came up with the subtitle for Jackson Pollock's painting No 1, 1950?

• Artist, Pablo Picasso

• Art Critic, Clement Greenberg

• President Harry Truman

• His father, Leroy Pollock

Which art style is described as "completely innovative method of infusing images with emotional force and made the act of creating visible in the art work."?

• Collage

• Gouache

• Pop Art

• Drip Splatter Painting

Pollock painted his first wall-size work, called Mural (c. 1943–44). This painting represents Pollock’s breakthrough into a totally personal style that infuses......

• his love of country music and Mexican culture

• Benton’s compositional methods and energetic linear invention

• a growing confidence after Peggy Guggenheim purchased his work

• the Surrealist free association of motifs and conscious imagery.

In 1947 Pollock first used the process of pouring or dripping paint onto a flat canvas in stages, often alternating weeks of painting with weeks of contemplating before he finished a canvas.

• This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or oil paint.

• This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of acrylic or oil paint.

• This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or aluminum paint.

• This process allowed him to record the force and scope of his physical gesture in trajectories of enamel or lead paint.

Abstract Expressionism is

• artists expressing their feelings

• using using abstract concepts in art

• a spin off of German Expressionism

• gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.

Pollock first began pouring paint, either straight out of the can or with sticks and hardened brushes, directly onto a canvas placed on the floor.

• This allowed him to jump into the painting process without worrying about preparing painting materials

• 'the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture’.

• He was not skilled in painting realistically using traditional methods

• It started as an accident, when he kicked a can onto a canvas.

Pollock's “veiling” was

• covering a large area of his studio floor with canvas, to allow him to use his drip painting technique

• The process he used in layering colour, line and shape on top of each other to create a mysterious sense of depth, based on the work of Monet's "Water Lilies"

• not thinking about the art work until he stood before the canvas and started painting.

• a form of free association from which he began most of his major paintings. The results, in effect, were huge areas covered with complex linear patterns that fused image and form; these works engulfed the spectator in their scale and intricacy.