Jackson Pollack Painting

When I learned about the Jackson Pollock style, I really enjoyed the simple freedom of it. I had seen these works before, but never really understood what they were about or why they were made.



So, after discovering Jackson Pollock in Art History class, I decided to make a work of my own, using the Jackson Pollock style and enlisted the help of my 6 year old son, Ian.

I started out with an old canvas that my son and I created that I wasn't happy with. It was supposed to be a bluff, with forest and stream below, but just wasn't working and I felt like we didn't get the results I was looking for. So, I covered it with thin a layer of white spray paint to give us an even surface to work with and we started our new creation.

Then, we got out a bunch of our acrylic paints, and laid out the canvas in the yard. From then on, it was a free for all. 

We opened acrylics and plashed, swiped, dripped, sprayed, threw and flicked.

Color after color, layer upon layer, we just added more until it looked like a work of art, and you know what? I think it turned out pretty darn good.

Although some of the old image shows through, I think it adds to the variable colors in the piece.

Dadaism and Duchamp

Last semester, when I was researching my short film about Double Exposures. I didn't think I would come across something as fascinating as the spirals by Duchamp.

I also didn't think I would ever do anything with them. But I did. I have been busy with After Effects this semester, doing special FX for my final project. So I took some time to play around with the spirals. This is what I came up with.

As you can see, I got progressively more complex with the rings, and added more and more as I went along. I also got more varied with the way that the spirals were placed.

All in all, I think this turned out pretty well.