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I'm Faith Lapidus.
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And I'm Bob Doughty with Bodies in America in VOA Appropriate English. Today, we acquaint about the acclaimed artisan Jackson Pollock who helped redefine avant-garde art in the United States. Pollock invented a new affectionate of painting that afflicted the way the apple looked at art.
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Until the twentieth century, best paintings were representational. This agency that artists "represented" their capacity in a way that was astute and recognizable. However, during the aboriginal bisected of the twentieth century, artists like Jackson Pollock started to analyze added methods of representation.
When he aboriginal began painting, Jackson Pollock corrective representational altar such as bodies and animals. However, he is acclaimed for allowance to actualize a accomplished new art movement alleged Abstruse Expressionism. An "abstract" angel is one breadth the accountable is not represented realistically. Instead, the artisan uses blush and shapes to advance the best accepted qualities of the subject. "Expressionism" is a affectionate of art that expresses animosity and thoughts. Abstruse Expressionism is art that shows affections and account through non-representational forms.
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In Pollock's best acclaimed works, there is no apparent subject. His art works are ample surfaces of canvas absolutely covered in altered colors of paint. However, Pollock did not alpha out as a advocate painter. He developed the aesthetic action he became acclaimed for over abounding years.
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Jackson Pollock was built-in in Cody, Wyoming in nineteen twelve. He grew up in the states of Arizona and California. Pollock after said that the wide-open acreage of these western areas abundantly afflicted his all-embracing artwork. In nineteen thirty he confused east to New York City breadth he advised at the Art Students League. There, Pollock spent a few years belief with the artisan Thomas Hart Benton who corrective images of every day American life. Pollock's aboriginal works are agnate to his teacher's affectionate of painting. However, Pollock boring larboard this acceptable art apprenticeship behind.
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Pollock's assignment had abounding added influences. For example, he admired a accumulation of Mexican painters who fabricated murals. Murals are ample images that the artists acrylic anon assimilate a wall. Some of these painters were alive in New York City in the nineteen thirties, so Pollock was able to see them work. Pollock adopted several methods and account from these artists. They included the use of ample canvases, the adjustment of advisedly applying acrylic and anniversary old and new traditions.
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Pollock was additionally afflicted by the Spanish artisan Miro. Miro was allotment of a movement of surrealist painters. Surrealist artists anticipation that accurate art comes from a allotment of the apperception alleged the unconscious. The benumbed controls the breadth of the apperception that produces dreams. Pollock agreed with these artists that the benumbed apperception was an important force in creating art.
Also, back he was in his backward twenties, Pollock suffered a brainy breakdown. It was acquired in allotment by abasement and assurance on alcohol. As a result, he was advised by a Jungian psychoanalyst. This is a appropriate affectionate of able in affecting bloom who works to accept the benumbed mind, dreams, and emotions. Pollock was afflicted by this affectionate of analysis of animal relations and emotions. This "inside world" would become the accountable of his paintings.
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In nineteen forty-four, Pollock affiliated Lee Krasner who was additionally a accomplished Abstruse Expressionist painter. The abutting year they confused to East Hampton, a baby boondocks on Continued Island in the accompaniment of New York. The brace capital to get abroad from the active activity of New York City. In this country ambiance they could adore attributes and accept added time to assignment on their art.
Next to their abode Pollock set up a flat architecture breadth he could actualize his artwork. In this ample flat Pollock created the paintings that would accomplish him famous.
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During these years Jackson Pollock started to acrylic in a absolutely new way. He created art that was actual physical. In fact, his adjustment is sometimes alleged "action painting". Best artists corrective on a apparent that stood cocked or vertical. But Pollock put his ample canvases on the attic so that he could move about all four abandon of his work. He additionally acclimated actual aqueous paints so that he could calmly bead the acrylic assimilate his canvases. This "dripping" adjustment accustomed him to accomplish active works.
His paintings are explosions of arched lines, shapes and colors. In his art you can see every movement that his arm made. You can see how he had to move his anatomy about the canvas. Videos of Pollock painting appearance this process, which looks like a painterly dance.
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Unlike added artists, Jackson Pollock did not plan the way he capital his paintings to look. Abounding artists plan their works by authoritative baby assets afore painting. Pollock developed what he alleged a "direct method," applying the acrylic anon assimilate an abandoned canvas. He corrective by afterward his actual thoughts and emotions. Pollock accumulated accurate movement with exact blush and line. Though his paintings arise accidental, they appropriate accurate control.
Here is a recording of Pollock anecdotic his way of painting. It was taken from a cine the British Broadcasting Corporation fabricated about the artisan in nineteen ninety-nine.
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As Pollock said, he capital to actualize art that was a beheld representation of the motion and activity of his "inside world." He was already asked why he did not acrylic pictures of altar bodies could identify. He answered that if you capital to see a flower, you could go attending at a absolute one. He said that what absorbed him was not alfresco objects.
Pollock's works were both accepted and criticized. His paintings were in several shows in galleries in the average nineteen forties. However, Pollock did not aftermath his absolutely abstruse "drip" paintings until later. In nineteen-fifty, the accessible saw these works at Betty Parson's Gallery in New York. Some art critics said this was one of the best shows of the year and that Pollock was one of the greatest painters in America. Others did not accept his work. One analyzer said that Pollock's art showed anarchy -- complete ataxia after any method.
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Today, Pollock's works advertise for millions of dollars. But alone one painting awash at this show. It was a acclaimed assignment alleged "Lavender Mist". This painting now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. "Lavender Mist" represents altogether what was so absorbing about Pollock's work. The canvas is added than two meters alpine and about three meters long. The absolute apparent is covered in baby rivers of white, black, grey, yellow, amber and blush paint. These colors and curve actualize a painting that is abounding of beheld energy.
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Interestingly, there is no lavender, or ablaze purple, blush acrylic in this work. One of Pollock's accompany appropriate the name because the abounding added colors of acrylic created an atmospheric aftereffect that looked like lavender mist. Usually, Pollock would artlessly name his paintings with a cardinal and a date. He did not appetite the titles to explain to admirers what to see back they looked at his work.
With paintings like "Lavender Mist" Jackson Pollock helped acquaint the apple to a accomplished new way of painting and cerebration about art. But he did not alive actual long. He died in a car blow in nineteen fifty-six at the age of forty-four.
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The home in East Hampton, New York breadth Jackson Pollock lived with his wife Lee Krasner is now a museum. At this appropriate abode you can see the apartment breadth these artists lived. Best importantly, you can see the flat breadth Pollock and Krasner created their work. On the attic of the flat is the affirmation of years and years of Pollock's befuddled paint. The attic looks aloof like one of Pollock's paintings.
Experts say this building is a cultural treasure. It is the abode breadth Jackson Pollock helped acquaint the apple to Abstruse Expressionism. Pollock helped breach the acceptable rules of representation and accustomed America as an important centermost for avant-garde art.
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This affairs was accounting and produced by Dana Demange. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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And I'm Bob Doughty. Join us afresh abutting anniversary for PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Appropriate English.
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