This creates a sense of immediacy as the paint flows liberally and directly from Jackson Pollock’s chosen tools to the canvas on the floor. The quick flowing nature of the paints is readily visible as a viewer can literally see when Polluck made quick rushing movements and slow precise curves. The trails of paint tell you plainly and it is possible to read the story of the artwork’s making just by observing them. Circular and separate splatters shows how fast the artist must have made those strokes of movement, the paint must have had no time to gracefully trail out any gestures. In other areas it is clear that Polluck must have taken his time; when the paint drips in an unbroken line, it becomes apparent that the even pacing constitutes a conscientious…
This painting consisted of charcoal, acrylic, spray paint and brown paper. The artist used mixed media to create this peculiar piece of…
Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 and raised in Sacramento, he spent his free time hunting on a 2,000-acre ranch in Colusa County with his family, who are descendants of President Andrew Jackson. He studied engineering and art at Sacramento State College. He held down odd jobs like Christmas tree farming and mining for gold in Sierra City before getting his first gallery shows in L.A. in the 1970s. He now has a studio where he does all his work in Sierra Madre, California. It looks more like an auto body shop, complete with power tools, welding and woodworking equipment and milling machine. Outside he keeps two black labs, inspiration for Bad Dog and favorite hunting partners. Jackson is a devoted American maverick who has redefined and expanded painting over a forty-year period. From the beginning of his career he as driven by a relentless desire to build on the advances in painting by Jasper Johns, Jackson Polluck, and Robert Rauschenberg. Jackson is known for his large-scale, site-specific wall paintings, room-size painted environments, monumental stacked canvases, and more recent his painting “machines”. Jackson’s wild inventive, exuberant, and irrelevant take on painting has dramatically extended its performance dimensions, merged it with sculpture and architecture, and has made it as an art of everyday experience rather than one of heroic myth. Jackson has had over 30 solo exhibitions and group exhibitions throughout his career.…
Through the use of oil on a canvas medium allows the artist to blend alike colors creating a variety of tints and shades. Bravo blends his colors to add value to the painting, through these refined changes it creates an illusion making the painting feel almost three dimensional. This painting was likely done in one sitting.…