Jackson Pollock wanted to express his feelings and not describe them.
Jackson Pollock gave up painting with modern techniques and switched to abstraction expressionism. As you can see in his splatter and action pieces. This involved pouring paint directly on the canvas. After Pollocks dad died he fell into a depression. And the colors of his art work started to fade to black and white.
Today people are still inspired by Pollocks work.
Pollocks use of color really set the mood. Except when he used blue, I think that was a symbol of being calm not sad. Since when he was sad about his dad he used black and white.
Responses:
"That is interesting how he limited his colors to black and white when he was going through depression. It was very thoughtful of you to compare his 'depressive state' work to his 'normal' work to define his use of blue. It is a great point, because blue must represent something other than 'depressed' to him since he didn't use it while depressed."
"I think it's really cool that you found out about how his art was effected after he lost his father. I agree that his colors really set the mood and it definitely makes sense that he would chose darker colors to represent his grief about his father."
"In last week question when we read about the colors and what the colors mean in different cultures. Some blue means helps to slow human metabolism, is cooling in nature, and helps with balance and self-expression. Blue is also an appetite suppressant. So this is how he express himself."
"I agree that was a very interesting find about how he would use black and white when he was sad. Really gives the work a deeper meaning."
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