ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - (2/6)
Jackson Pollock
- Influences on
- Southwest
- space
- Native American pictoglyphs and technique
- sense of the ritual of creation
- art becomes ritual - common factor shared by art and ritual is the desire to give out strongly felt emotions -- art resides in the doing, not in the object
- artist transplanted into violent urban culture
- Lee Krasner - two cannot be separated
- psychiatry - Karl Jung
- idea of artist as hero - the hero's journey
- Collective Unconscious
- first artist to break the ice
- gained notorierty
- became known first for his personality, not his art
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